A sidenote: Something that I remember from being in Spain 2 years ago was the "Menu del día" (Menu of the Day). So if you went to a café for lunch or dinner, you would likely order the menu of the day for €4-6. (By the way, this is the symbol for euros: €) What you get when your order the Menu del día is, a drink, bread, soup, a meat, and a dessert (usually fruit or yogurt). When I was there over the Christmas break, I noticed that due to inflation, the Menu del día price now starts around €8-9. Interesting...keep in mind that for every $1.00 it equals (around) €1.40. Depending on the DOW or other US stocks/markets, the dollar becomes stronger or weaker to the euro. (I know, way too much information, sorry!)
Anyway, back to Spanish cuisine. I was reading something that John & Jan had posted, and they said that a friend of theirs summarized Spanish food in four major things: olive oil, bread, ham, and tomatoes. I would agree that Spanish people really like these things, but it is not nearly limited to these four things. Also, since Spain is surrounded by water, there is a lot of seafood to taste! Tuna fish is really popular. It is not so much like "American" tuna fish salad, they usually eat it plain out of the can. Here is a picture of the olives on the tree before they go to be cleaned, weighed, pitted, and smashed for delicious olive oil.
Ham is also served a lot. People put it on bread or eat it with tapas (popular bite-size Spanish snacks). This (below) became a familiar site at grocery stores... These legs were €69! That is over $100! Of course you could eat on it for a long time, but it was new to see whole pig legs in the store.
Also, I'm not sure why, but Spaniards think it is really odd to eat eggs for breakfast.
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