The King’s Dainties.
In Roman cultures, kings and emperors would throw elaborate banquets, often trying to outdo each other with their exotic dishes.
It is reported that
They ate ostrich brains, peacocks, dolphin meatballs, herons, goat feet, peacock brains, boiled parrot, flamingo tongues and orioles. They liked watching birds fly out of featured dishes and ate an electric fish because “it was fascinating.” Sometimes a calf was cooked up with a pig inside it and inside the pig were a lamb, a chicken, a rabbit and a mouse. The Roman Emperor Elagabalus once ordered 600 ostriches killed so his cooks could make him ostrich-brain pies. [1]
This is just a sample of what the Proverbs speaks of when it talks about the king’s “dainties.” The Bible says it is deceptive food. The remedy? Continue reading “The King’s Food Rejected by Jewish Refugees”
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