• Soapbox@lemmy.zip
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    26 days ago

    Some people really enjoy their salad.

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    Yes, I know it wasn’t THAT Cesar who invented the Cesar salad.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    26 days ago

    Why is his grave so… tall? Is it because he turns over in his grave every time someone refers to him as “See-zer”?

    (His name was pronounced “Kie-sar” or something like that back in the day. C was pronounced like K. AE was pronounced like “Eye.” SAR was pronounced like “star” but without the T. Not quite like Kaiser though.)

    (When I played Fallout: New Vegas and the Legion troops would say “Awe, true to Caesar” the way they do, I wondered why they said what they said, how they said it, and looked it up… apparently that was an attempt to be historically accurate. Since the game takes place in the future, half of them actually do say “See-zer.” The Caesar character doesn’t care how his followers pronounce his name. I’m not sure all the Caesars IRL would have, but the more sadistic ones? Oh yeah, they’d have your ass up on a cross for getting their name wrong. They did worse for less.)

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      26 days ago

      It’s an altar. He was cremated. And it’s sort of low down where that is - the whole area has rather confused elevation with centuries of build up on top, then excavation.