GMAT Sentence Correction (SC) | The diet of the ordinary Greek in classical times was

The diet of the ordinary Greek in classical times was largely vegetarian—vegetables, fresh cheese, oatmeal, and meal cakes, and meat rarely.

(A) and meat rarely-- hold
(B) and meat was rare-- sound as if meat was scarce,eliminate
(C) with meat as rare-- sounds like an open-end comparison as rare..,eliminate
(D) meat a rarity-- just weird,a stand alone after comma but not in the list
(E) with meat as a rarity-- with rarely meat may be better to my ear.As a rarity sounds as if meat=rarity ?!