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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Can't see a Caesar and not want a Caesar

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's the one with fish juice right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

What'd you say about my ex wife?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

And The salad has, in turn, killed many (romaine lettuce prone to bacteria)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact: The Caesar salad was created in Mexico from what I knew.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Ironically, after a bunch of salad ingredients had gone bad and the head chef had to scramble for a menu, if I recall the story correctly.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

I suspect Caesar the guy had more people killed than Caesar salads but I admit I do not have proof.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Caesar is a title not a name. Like emperor, czar, king...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Oh boy, you're gonna have fun learning where the name of the tittle comes from...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Yah, because salad is Latin for salted vegetables.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I’ve been playing Expeditions Rome and the pronunciation of the Roman names is quite interesting.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

How I imagine his personality based on the story about how Caesar trolled pirates who held him for ransom, I bet Caesar would get a kick out of this meme.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

But first he would have to learn meme culture . Like i have to learb who caesar is can someone give a tldr i would love to know.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

The two answers here are pretty bad, so here's my take as a history nerd.

Gaius Julius Caesar was a highly ambitious Roman politician who through very clever political manoeuvering and incredible military success (considered a military genius) forged a path to almost complete power after winning the civil war and beating the opposing senators, spearheaded by Pompey and Cato. After becoming dictator for life, he was assassinated on the ides of March (the 15th) in 44BC by a group of opposing senators, which included his adopted son Brutus (daughter of his long time lover Cornelia). After the assassination Rome again fell into civil war, with Gaius Julius Octavianus eventually becoming the first Roman emperor, now usually known as emperor Augustus.

Caesar was never an emperor, but the word emperor in many languages is directly based on Caesars name. For example: czar in Russian, kaiser in German and keizer in Dutch.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In 1st Century BC, Caesar was the most famous Roman Emperor whose authority grew to be the foremost power in all of Europe, Middle East, and Africa. His legionnaires were military forces that went on foot across deserts and mountains, sometimes laying roads along the way, which spread Latin to the entire Western World which later laid the foundation for French, English, Spanish, and other language adaptations. Because of him, phrases such as "All Roads Lead to Rome" and "When in Rome, do as the Romans do" exist.

The Roman Senators and leaders in multiple branches of Government realized that Caesar's power had become something like that of a King, which directly opposed the ideology of Roman Democracy, so three of his good friends took him out back and murdered him. If you trust the words of 16th century poets, then they stabbed Julius exactly 37 times.

His lineage continued to rule Rome for about a century, meaning the aforementioned assassination failed completely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He didn't die of 37 stabs ? Like what ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

He supposedly did die from that. He was cremated so nobody actually knows for certain aside from the romanticized writings. He was deified after death, so it's likely that tons of stuff we know about the events are twisted.

I'm saying the assassination failed because even after he died his lineage took power. They wanted to prevent a monarchy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sorry but what is a lineage ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Your parents, your self, and your offspring are all part of a lineage. It's a family line.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That works in the context I used it in, but Legacy is only in the forward direction. You can be your father's legacy but he cannot be yours. Lineage describes all of the members of the family line.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Julius Caesar was a Roman emperor who is famous for being betrayed by his council (and possibly son depending how much your read into suetonius's 12 Caesars) and stabbed in the back by like 20 people at the same time. the salad pictured is called a Caesar salad, but it wasnt invented by Julius Caesar it's just commonly attributed to him in meme culture as a joke.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This meme explained: Cut your vegetables like you cut a Caesar.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Nha, you just have to gain the chicken's trust and the stab it on the back.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Fun fact: the ceasar salad was invented in Tijuana in the 1920s?

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