Dare to try sushi!
Monday, March 31st, 2008
Here’s a poster at a food stand at the airport in Barcelona.
This says volumes about the Spanish palette. It’s at the airport - in departures, where the truly adventurous might be found. The kind of person that travels to another country and might even sample foreign food. The kind of person who might dare to try sushi!
The Spanish text encourages you to “discover” sushi, implying that you’ve never had it before.
Years ago Ana and I would occasionally have lunch at a Chinese restaurant just off Plaza St Jaume. They had a proud little sign on the door that said they were the first Chinese restaurant in Barcelona. Opened in 1971!
If you got the impression from this that the Spanish palette and their cuisine is not the most open in the world, you’d be right. I suspect there must be decent correlation between how long your culture has been around and how deeply-seated your food preferences run. Yes, that’s a very vague statement.
Anyway, I like Spanish food, I’m not knocking it. But I do find this poster very amusing and indicative.