If garum was not unlike asian fish sauces, i would have liked it.
If there would have been more turkish immigration to the US Döner Kebap could have become a popular fast food alternative to burgers, especially in its sandwich style pita- or role-style dürüm-version. It has become one of the most popular fast foods in Europe with sales figures overtaking those of hamburgers and sausages in some countries in the last decades in OTL.
Burritos pretty much fill the niche of the doner kebap in America.
Has anyone tried Vietnamese sandwiches? Excellent fusion of the baguette and Vietnamese grill. Doesn't sound like it would work, but it tastes great.
I excuse myself for bumping this, so to bring this nice change of subjects for once, and focusing on Garum...
When and why it was 'lost'?
Could it had been kept alive?
Would it have changed cuisine(s) of mediteranean, and beyond?
On the subject of meat, and also taboo, an old classic, much debated...
Pork, the most known taboo (but one of them only) of both kosherut and halal rules.
If those religion(s) never existed, OR the taboo on it never called, would pork be noneless in culinary traditions of middle east and around?
It is often debated it was actually a taboo based originally on perhaps more ecological OR health sanitary need, but....
Would alt jews, arabs, turks, etc eat pork anyway?
(Heck, does christians and non-jews-muslims of the region to and beyond eat pork? In sinosphere, it is a beloved meat, yeah, but...)