featherbum

jeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzz some people's ignorance never fails to amaze me.
i am actually offended by your, sorry to repeat myself, ignorance.
Either that or you live in some backward village in the back of beyond where the only restaurant available to you is one of those where women sit outside with black cloths on their heads and if a donkey walks past is the highlight of their day.

arko

I think we've got the point that the Spanish don't worry too much about their salads or necessarily turn to lamb when they want a meat dish. It's food for thought that all the things you are looking for don't really appeal to people here. Different taste buds, I guess.

But I think you're on a non-starter if you're trying to say that the Spanish don't have an interesting and tasty cuisine- please tell me if I've misinerpreted your rant (real gourmet cooks aren't they, is a stab at irony, I'm guessing.

I think it's a telling sign that it's still very difficult to find ready meals to the extent they are found back in the UK. My neice is definitely not a good cook like her mother, but she'd never dare buy a ready meal or a pasta sauce. I think she' be laughed out of the town.

encodeme

Ah, you've met my mother. Yes I'm sorry but she does have a penchant for the donkey walking

featherbum

arko

I'm not an expert on Spanish cuisine but I think it's pretty obvious that from the beginning it has been influenced from other cultures. Spanish food as we know has been heavily influenced by the Moorish and Jewish cultures and Spanish chefs (particularly from the Basque country and Catalonia) have gone abroad and trained and learnt new styles and come back and opened restaurants. Like all food from different countries, it's also been influenced by French and Italian cooking. Furthermore, in the cities there are French, Morroccon, Chinese, African, Serbian, Indian Portuguese and British (etc.) reataurants to suit everyone.

featherbum

where do you ppl live!

rugbymatt

to an extent, but so has EVERY single other countries but do remember, the first recipe book on gastronomy was Spanish and it is now believed that it was Spanish monks that introduced haute cuisine to France.

As the old saying goes...


In each meal I eat a thousand countries.

featherbum

the spain some of you talk about is just errrr i dunno, maybe some of you are in the wrong forum?

featherbum

impressed by your knowledge (i am not being sarky this time)

Veleta

jeeeezzzz, some people's ignorance never fails to amaze me either.

My nickname is Jerez girl. I'm a girl, from Jerez.

Population. two hundred thousand.

If I were ignorant I would probably be content eating little more than ham, cheese, puchero, guisos and rock hard bread.

crispy

Small seeded wholemeal loaf in my local Supersol 4.75 euro nearly had a fit, have to say I would kill for a decent wholemeal/wholwheat loaf just can't be found here at a decent price. Here being Chiclana, so if anyone knows different please let me know.


Jerezegirl you should come down to La Barrosa in Chiclana you get a great salad there, can even get one without the tuna and white aspargus, we are only a 30 min drive from Jerez, and they are crunchy, crunchy, very very crunchy.

Does it matter tea, lunch whatever.

Not where we are, great Ensalada de la Casa not a whiff of tuna

[QUOTE=Mitzyboy;7042888]Its definately an area thing then
We have fresh milk
we have lamb (albeit you have to search)
we have sauces
we have an international section at carrefour

We have a varied diet and we long ago accepted that as we live on Spain the supermarkets are going to sell a lot of Spanish foodstuffs.

I didn't come to be a tourist here either, but we have the best of both worlds it seems



Agree Mitz about it being an area thing, here in Chiclana really hard to find skate, if I go to Puerto Real or San Lucar (Spelling) it's coming out the woodwork in the shops.

When I bought my home here 6 years ago you could't get anything that wasn't classed as Spainish but over the last year to 18 months the supermarkets are beginning to stock a lot more International stuff. I don't mean ready made meals or just British foods but there is more German foods and a bigger choice of wine. Please don't jump on me and say why would I want wine from else where when Spain has such good ones. Yes I know they do and I love them but then I love pie and mash but I would want it everyday.
I wish there was more choice of low fat products but having said that the choice is getting so much better.

And for any one that is intrested Supersol had Christmas Crackers, now that is a first for down here, usually have to go to the Brit shop or Gib for them.

arko

Very true.

As another saying goes....

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

featherbum

and who is saying that's all we eat?
where we live we have more restaurants with michelin stars than you'd be able to count.... seriously, i dont know where you are going out to eat or what the crack is here

and......WHATS WRONG WITH GUISOS?
and......why is the bread in jerez rock hard?
and......why do ppl in jerez only eat ham and cheese?
my god i think its time you consider moving, not surpirsed you are getting so cranky, i would too if that was my only nourishment!

encodeme

Yep I think there are some people not paying attention.

rugbymatt

thanks, even though some of us live in the UK now, our knowledge of Spain extends past the guide books and anecdotal stories.....


(and I'm not being sarky either.)