Regular readers will
know I think percebes(goose barnacles) are grossly over-rated as a
delicacy, tasting to me like rubber dipped in salty water. But I know
several people – both Spaniards and foreigners - who totally
disagree on this. In fact, I discovered on Friday that their fans
even include the guy who told me long ago that even during the lean years of the civil war no one would be caught
eating either them or barnacles. They were seen back then as animal food, until the marketeers got to work on them. He especially likes the large variant from Cedeira, north of La
Coruña on the Galician coast. Maybe I should try them at the
inevitable annual gastronomic festival there.
Click here if you want
to know the Spanish province with the largest black economy. No
prizes for guessing it's in the south.
And click here if you
want Don Quijones's take on the latest immoral/semi-criminal activities of
the European banks.
Talking of banks . . .
My new one sends me an SMS every time I use my debit card for amounts
over, I think, €50. In fact, I actually received a message last
night even before my receipt had been given to me. I'm not sure I
welcome this.
Two new words for me
today:-
Shonky: This is said to
emanate from the Antipodes and to mean: dishonest, unreliable or
illegal, especially in a devious way. The same word serves as a noun
for a person engaged in suspect business activities.
Catfisher: The devious
brand of love cheat who creates a fake online identity to lure
innocent lonely hearts into a relationship.
As these things
happens, I was going to cite this morning the case of the so-called
Don Juan of (nearby) Marín, a guy who's finally been arrested after
deceiving and defrauding more than 70 women over 40 years. Hard to
see how he could have got away with this for so long. One of his
tricks was to nick the phone or laptop of his last victim to gift to the next one. Apparently he didn't do it for the money
or even the sex but – as a psycho – to exercise power over weak
women. So, if your new man has given you a mobile phone or a laptop .
. . .
Nutters' Corner: Two
more quotes from the same US evangelist pastor:-
- The biggest problem with India today is Hinduism; the best thing you could do to help poor people there is to teach them the Bible.
- Atheists are so insecure they don't want anyone seeing nativity scenes, crosses, etc. as they don't want people to think for themselves. We're not afraid to teach children about how to understand different views. Atheists are afraid to let people be taught to think critically about origins, as people would then understand evolution's a religion
And just in case you
think nuttiness is confined to the US of A: One of the wealthiest
Cambridge colleges is to rethink its menu after ethnic minority
students complained about culinary offerings such as “Jamaican
stew” and “Tunisian rice” on the grounds that the names are
“cultural misrepresentations” as they do not exist in their
supposed native countries. Poor damaged things.
Finally . . . Another
Bill Tidy cartoon:- One of my all time favourites . . .
Ah, c'mon, Genghis - we need only one more to make a horde! |
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