Land of the Fe and Home of the Brave
Today’s post comes straight from the personal experiences of the Unexpected Brother. He is beginning to spend a lot of time on the road and is experiencing first-hand that which I can be a little blasé about. Still, there are some things which would make even me do a double-take.
On what is fast becoming a commute to Spain these days, he sat down for dinner in a small restaurant tucked along a narrow alley that time and the local council forgot. Eating in Spain is an exhilarating and adrenalin-filled experience, and that’s before you’re even seated.
He, and the few colleagues he was with, slumped into the chairs, all glad to have a heavy day behind them. One of the party had been thinking about nothing else other than the meal all day long and so the conversation thinned into nothingness as the menu arrived and the moustachioed waiter went off to forget about their drinks order.
They flipped the little booklet of promise open. My brother’s eyes rested on the top of the page, trying to decipher the item:
They fought for their land and died in a vat of boiling oil ...
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It seems they put up a jolly good fight indeed. Joking apart, certain menus one finds around do contain some strange sounding translations.
Indeed they do Henry, and it is rather brave of the owners to stick with them.
This on the tail of “Weakness Coffee”!? I have to say there seems to be a definite anthropomorphic trend when it comes to food in Europe these days! There will soon be activists demanding fair treatment for asparagus et al, mark my words…
Fair treatment for asparagus, you cannot laugh at a mushroom (even if it is a fun-guy) and no sniggering at turnips that look like naughty bits.
Brave potatoes… We salute you!
Brave potatoes? What’s next, courageous cauliflower? And which exactly are the weak, lily-livered, cowardly vegetables? Inquiring minds want to know
Courageous cauliflower, lily-livered leaks, ambiguous asparagus, pitiful peas and cantankerous carrots.
I believe that’s the entire list, Linda