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Meaning of jamon con chorreras




Manuel Penichet P

jamon con chorreras
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The tufas ham is ham that oozes liquid fat when the temperature of the place in which it hangs, does it flow down. If it is a restaurant or a bar, placed a kind of cacitos (small bucket) collecting pig fat to avoid falling on the clothes of the parishioners and the landlord to empty when they are full. Call these cacitos frills. During the post-war period in Spain, the Ham with frills was a luxury that very few could be given. At present, the expression quot; And a ham with frills quot; It is used as a negative response to any exaggerated requests.

  




Anónimo

A ham with frills: Ironic expression used to reject what is considered excessive.

  



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