Friday, March 11, 2011

Jamón: The cure for everything

By now everyone should know that Spaniards love their ham (jamón).  When I was in Brussels one of the guys I met just came from Granada and one girl we were talking with said she loved ham.  I told her she'd fit right in with the Spaniards and the guy said, "oh yeah, those Spaniards love jamón!"  So very true.  So here is another jamón story.
 Tonight I went to my roommate's work to monitor the painting class since the normal teacher's husband was sick.  It was the easiest 20 euros I've ever made.  All I did was pretty much sit there and watch the girls paint or draw.  In the second hour a girl got paint on her sweater and one of the girls was talking about whether the paint stained or not.  I didn't quite catch the beginning of the conversation, but one girl was explaining how her mom got out some sort of paint stain, but this is what I did hear:  "And she used ham too!  How strange!"  Strange indeed.  Those Spaniards and their ham are like Americans and peanut butter.  Never one without the other.   

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