Tapas, originally were when you ordered a beer, instead of throwing the metal top away they would place a small morsel, maybe an olive in the beer top, gratis.
Gradually it became the smallest ration you could order of any food on the menu. It’s still common to get them free in Granada province, Jaen and some parts of Malaga and Almeria.
Some bars only serve them at the bar and don’t serve them at the table if you’re seated or outside. So basically it’s now basically €3 for a tapa, €6 for a media ration and €10 for a full ration at a bar or venta.
True restaurants don’t serve tapas. Some tourist hotels do but the tapas they serve are basic, just olives or chochos. Chochos is the spanish word for ‘fanny’ which makes me laugh but in Andalucia the Almatruces are known as Chochos
On our trip back to the UK this year we stopped off at Merida for the night and a look around the Roman ruins.
The bar we settled in for the evening kept bringing out small free tapas with every round of drinks. Unlike here in Sevilla province where we are used to getting small plates of olives or chochos these consisted of small bits of curly fatty meat with a couple of chips thrown on, quite tasty but very chewy. I had no idea what we were being served so asked the barman, he said “orejas de cerdo” (fried pigs ears!) We then started to feed them to our dog and just ate the chips
Ha ha, I had pigs ear up north in Lugo, and I ordered it knowing what it was. But you’re right it’s inedible, and that’s animal cruelty against the dog !
We were going to stop in there last November on the way from Madrid down, but it was getting late so we stopped at Medellin instead.
I actual found free tapas in Madrid a few years ago. Totally random bar I used to stop in and watch the Sevilla Barcelona game where Varas saved Messi’s penalty. They were great tapas too - Shrimp, Ensaladia, some sort of meat thing. It was great.
This past trip to Sevilla, we were taken to this bar in Triana that gave you a plate of small shrimp for each round of drinks. It was awesome. I think it was Triana, it was on that side of the river anyway.
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A team from group B. If im correct, any team can win that group. If Shakhtar can win the group, which is doubtful, that would be a great draw, as would inter.
I look at it a little indifferent, Shaktar would be great but if we’re going to accomplish anything in the CL (apart from money) we’ll have to beat some big teams, on our day, we could do it.
Moving to uefa, it’s a disgrace that there’s no VAR, I just saw the Cluj goalkeeper sent off for nothing, punched the ball away clean and perhaps his forearm brushed the attackers head, nothing.
Any of you guys knowledgeable about Campana’s time in SAT? The La Liga Lowdown guys are looking for a reference to speak about his time in the academy and the progression to the Sevilla first team. @Brian or @TimSpence2? @kevoni?
I can’t remember much about him in SAT, it was the same time as Luis Alberto and Juan Carlos were coming through and a bit of a turning point with the cantera who felt a bit miffed at their chances of getting into the first team.
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