¡aJÁ!

[muckefuck]

torrezno. (De torrar). 1. m. Pedazo de tocino frito o para freír.[*] (Diccionario de la Real Académia Española)

The recipe for sopa de ajo in the cookbook of her grandmother's recipes which e. gave me last week calls for "unos torreznos". I asked her point-blank what a torrezno was and she told me, "I don't know." A likely story! She could only have been trying to weasel out of having to make it for me.

[*] Translation: "Piece of BACON FAT, fried or for frying."

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Mea culpa

[(Anonymous)]

Guess I will need to have you over for properly apologetic (and bacony)garlic soup.

I really need to get my own copy of the Real Academia.

-e

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

If you can get one at no cost through your mother or something. Otherwise do what I do and use the online version.

In the meantime, I think bunj's research assignment should be to learn all pork-related terminology past and present, standard and regional before your next trip to Spain. If there's a Leonese slang term for "snack made with meaty bits from a pig's trotter", then, for the benefit of all of us, he needs to know it.

[bunj.livejournal.com]

It's not without reason that the vast majority of my Spanish vocabulary has to do with food.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Quick Spanish quiz: How many different kinds of encased meats can you name?

[bunj.livejournal.com]

chorizo and morcilla. I'm sure there are others, but, really, are they necessary?

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Knowing what a fan of butifarra I am, how can you expect me to say yes to that?