what is there to eat here?

what’s really sad is that i live here in spain, i’ve visited france, and yet, i’m craving english food!

i must be really backwards…

in spain, other than the ubiquitous tortilla espanola, which is really just a potato egg omelette, and the paella, which is just pan fried rice, and now is full of seafood to entice tourists who want “coastal food”, i can’t think of any food that’s very spanish… and since i haven’t had the guts to order myself rice fried with lobster, mussels, shrimp, and the like, i’ve pretty much been eating potato-egg-omelette.  the sad thing is that if it’s not breakfast time they cut this up and put it between bread so you can have a sandwich - but with no sauce, no tomatoes, no onions, no nothing!  it’s just a dry piece of omelette in a dry piece of bread =/ i’ve gotta start carrying around packets of ketchup with me…

sadly enough, when i went to france, the food there wasn’t amazing either - i had picnic with this family and they had 3 dishes

  • canned green beans, onto which they cut boiled egg, and poured a good vinaigrette over it
  • “salad" which was tomatoes, onions, peas, and rice
  • salchicha, which they ate with bread

oh wait, and then you can’t forget the cheese course!  yeah… they had a block of cheese and just cut it up into big chunks and everyone grabbed a chunk and started eating… i thought that woulda been fun with crackers or with bread.

i have to admit that i enjoyed the meal i had while i was in france, just that it wasn’t a culinary masterpiece… but then again, neither am i gonna go trying some escargot, so it’s just as well i had something that i enjoyed!

but then england!  ENGLAND!!  land of bangers and mash!  fish and chips! (sans the mushy peas... ewww!!) hearty meals like shepherd’s pie which is basically meatloaf topped with mashed potatoes, and you bake it so the potatoes can get a bit crispy, and then you smother it in gravy before eating…

mmmmmm....

is it wrong to crave english food while in france?  maybe i AM a stupid american tourist…

Posted by on 07/20 at 11:51 AM

  1. I forgot to ask you if you got kebabs while you were in England. That is totally the best street food IN THE WORLD! There are kebab vans all over London just like you find Taco Trucks in California.

    When I was in France, I just subsisted on bread and cheese. Once I bought a ear of roasted corn from a street vendor who was roasting the corn in the bottom of a jerry-rigged shopping cart. That was pretty ingenious, I thought. And really good corn, too. smile

    Posted by laura  on  07/20  at  04:18 PM

  2. no kebabs in england, but i’ve had a variety of shawarma here in spain - they’re now what i eat instead of the dry omelette-in-bread bocadillos the spanish cafe’s offer.  $2.50 for a falafel sandwich, $3 for a shawarma de pollo… and there’s one conveniently down the street from my place!  yay!

    Posted by  on  07/20  at  07:36 PM

  3. Ok, this was all well and good until you mentioned Bangers & Mash!  And Fish & Chips!  And Shepherd’s Pie!  I’m just glad you stopped before Cornish Pastie and Colcannon.  Otherwise my stomach would have climbed out of my gut, caught a flight to the UK, and taken up residence in a flat overlooking the Thames.

    Great, I’m hungry now.

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