. . "Suburbanbanshee says: 3 December 2010 at 1:20 PM If it comes down to that, in Mediterranean society the basic food was bread, with meat or fish or veggies only counting as a sort of dessert course or condiment. (Which is why the ancient Greeks looked down on someone who ate more than a nice little bit of fish at dinner, because anyone who even approached the same amount of fish as bread, or betray" . . . .