Considering our love for food, should we bring back into popularity the vomitorium?

[StageLeft]

Romans used to love a good meal and, when full, would vomit it up in the vomitorium! Unlike weight-obsessed bulemics of today who do that to keep their calorie consumption down, these Romans would do it so that they could have another go at the food! I'm sure we've all had that experience whereby we're just too full to eat any more, but we wish that we could be hungry again, so that we may indulge in more feasting. I think this is a specacular idea!

 

[Atomicus]

I don't like the feel of vomit, so me no like :disgust:

 

[PingSpike]

I thought most women already did this when they went to the bathroom after a meal.

 

[gistech1978]

you could have an around the world buffet.

Oriental buffet room>vomitorium>Seafood Buffet room>vomitorium>Homestyle cooking room>vomitorium>Mexican buffet room>vomitorium>finally dessert room.

 

[Red Dawn]

And save the vomit to make meat pudding to feed the starving children of the world!

 

[Amused]

It seems the practice was real, but the places were not:

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/021101.html

 

[amcdonald]

I don't see anything wrong with vomiting...
I got used to it when I drank too much too often too quickly.
It's just not a big deal anymore.

 

[PingSpike]

The Romans were cool, but they did a lot of fvcked up things. Like that dig site they found that turned out to be a brothel. There was a pit filled with the bones of male infants.

Or maybe that was the Greeks. I don't know.

 

[booger711]

sick

 

[Shelly21]

If I pay top dollars for sushi, I like to keep it.

 

[Electric Amish]

The only place I'd use this would be Famous Dave's BBQ. That's about the only place I've eaten where I have to force myself to stop.

 

[dighn]

the feeling and taste of vomit would make me lose all appetite :roll:

 

[Rilescat]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
The Romans were cool, but they did a lot of fvcked up things. Like that dig site they found that turned out to be a brothel. There was a pit filled with the bones of male infants.

Or maybe that was the Greeks. I don't know.

male infants? Perhaps this was also tied to the vomitorium?

 

[Aquaman]

Just read this as you eat 😀

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
The Romans were cool, but they did a lot of fvcked up things. Like that dig site they found that turned out to be a brothel. There was a pit filled with the bones of male infants.

Or maybe that was the Greeks. I don't know.

Fvcked up from your cultural point of reference, but not from theirs, apparently. To them, that may well have been perfectly normal and acceptable.

 

[puffff]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
And save the vomit to make meat pudding to feed the starving children of the world!

ugh... disgusting...

 

[welst10]

why vomit? Just drink some laxative. No awful vomit fell.

 

[yukichigai]

Roman culture is the epitome of overindulgence. Vomitoriums are a huge waste of food. You should only be allowed to eat what you can put down without throwing up.

 

[Xionide]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
The Romans were cool, but they did a lot of fvcked up things. Like that dig site they found that turned out to be a brothel. There was a pit filled with the bones of male infants.

Or maybe that was the Greeks. I don't know.

Hey men just didnt profit very well.

-Xionide