mythologyandhistory, 
Did you know that the Romans' favourite #snack went #extinct?
Besides honey & grape juice, meals in #Ancient #Rome were flavoured with imported dates from Judea (#Israel).
Date palm fronds were symbolic of #success - lawyers pinned them to their doors & generals wore special "toga palmata".
Judean dates were also shelf-stable & delicious.
Sadly, by the 19th c., they had vanished.
Except for a few 2000-year-old seeds.
They were successfully germinated in 2020.