THE BOX

[eugmac]

ya, the premise was facetious. i dunno what y'all are getting your knickers in a twist for. fwiw my impression of spanish food was that everything was just fried in olive oil. everything.

[surviva316]

ya, the premise was facetious. i dunno what y'all are getting your knickers in a twist for. fwiw my impression of spanish food was that everything was just fried in olive oil. everything.

Yes, it's gonna take a little bit of creativity to throw together a multiple-course Spanish meal if you're out of olive oil and garlic. But obviously the same exact thing could be said about Italian cuisine, which made your list of two exceptional European cuisines.

Among other things, Spain also has really good charcuterie-type things, especially their blue cheeses. I say "charcuterie-type things" because I'm including things like sardines, which is obviously not a cured meat or a cheese, but it's the same type of thing where you can eat it cold on a piece of crostini with nothing else and it's delicious.

Spain is also a really under-appreciated wine producer. They probably deserve to be third-rate to Italy and France (I only say probably because I don't know much about authentic Italian wines), but Rioja produces a lot of very good wines, and Sherry is the best god-damned alcoholic drink in the world outside of scotch (now I'm obviously speaking out of my ass, but I love(d) sherry). I can't speak to Cava vs other sparkling wines because I was never very into sparkling wines.

Anyway, is this thread permanently derailed? Did I ruin it by using some Wikipedia buzz words on ethics?