Eating in Spain

I´m used to Latin culture and have spent half my life in South America but eating times in Spain – where I am just now – are a mystery to me.

Breakfast starts about 9 (and that´s early), lunch any time between 2 and 5 o´clock and dinner from nine to midnight.

The service is equally eccentric in terms of time. Sit down, wait half an hour for the waiter to see you (if you´re lucky), take an hour to bring the menu then return an hour later for your order then bring the first course an hour later.

Time has a different dimension here. Was Einstein a Spaniard and is relativity a Spanish concept?

Yet it´s not like this in Argentina, Mexico, Chile or Brazil, which I know best.
The shops and banks are the same and seem to be closed more often than they are open. I thought all this had changed when Spain joined the European Union and had become modern.

I know that as a visitor you have go with the flow but for fuck´s sake get a move on Manuel. Rapido!

Nominated by: Mr Polly

47 thoughts on “Eating in Spain

    • Is there no Spanish blood in the Creampuff lineage with your 8.00pm dining habits? Bloody Spanish.

      Morning El Ruffalo/all.

      • Morning LL.

        I much admired the cut of the Spanish jib (apart from the animal cruelty) when we used to holiday at Creampuff Villa there back in the ’80s. Seriously considered migrating in fact. Still would, but can’t be arsed in today’s atmosphere. Roll on my next move to landfill.

        Do you remember Birdman? I wonder what happened to him.

      • I do remember him Ruff, was he on the mainland or Gibraltar? Anyway, disappeared quite suddenly from IsAC.

      • Mainland, as I recall. His last post referred to a mystery health condition he was going to have investigated. I fear the worst.

      • I remember Birdman … sometimes we used to talk about of our love of birds, music, food he was vegetarian I think and marijuana. I remember giving him shit last time for overhyping on a Liam gallagher album he was a big oasis / beady eye fan

        I fear he got corona’d or his ex wife killed him or gypsies/peacefuls got him during a scuffle

  1. If you look around you can find McDonald’s, Burger King and KFC for fast food.

    Breakfast is always served quickly.
    We have work to do.

    Lunch is always a leisurely 2 hour affair. Followed by an hours kip.

    You have noticed that almost all shops are open until 10pm?
    Then people eat.
    No rush.
    In a good restaurant the food is prepared from fresh and not reheated.

    Banks only open in the mornings.

    ¡Tranquilo hombre!

  2. The only thing I know for certain about the Iberian penninsula is the rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain. I dont know about coastal regions.

  3. When do the bone-idle dågos find the time to stab a drugged bull to death or hurl a donkey from a bell tower?
    They’d almost outdo the chınks for animal cruelty.

    • Don’t they also chuck a Donkey from a bell tower ?
      The theirs that strange festival where they pelt each other with rotting tomatoes .
      Morning Thomas.

      • Morning FF…👍
        Got enough fuel in your tank for the next few days?!
        All petrol/diesel is gone (or the filling stations are totally closed) in my town, ffs.

      • I’m in Poland at the moment Thomas. They have the same shortages but not the same public reaction because they don’t have fucking newspapers like the mail and express scaring the shit out of everyone with fake news

      • Damned right. The Mail is the most appalling, insidious creation and ought to be shut down with immediate effect.
        But they are the unnofficial government mouthpiece, alas.

    • This doesnt surprise me.
      The slimy spanish all confused about when you have your tea.
      And if some hair gelled little Manuel thinks id wait a hour for a menu?
      Id be in that kitchen and go full Basil on him the snotty little twat.
      Ive never eaten spanish muck and never will.
      If I was made to go to Torremolinos id find a good English restaurant and eat fish and chips and full English till I got the chance to escape.

  4. I’m sure it will all change once the second Moorish invasion is complete. Off topic, when I try and access this site via a new (second-hand) laptop, it tells me safari cannot access site as it cannot establish a secure connection (or something like that). Any ideas anyone?

    • South America Mr Polly?
      When you said you was nipping to Amazon I thought you meant the online delivery depot.
      If struggling to get your porridge in Venezuela or a deep fried Mars bar in Bolivia,
      You have to bribe them!
      Theyre bone idle unless you grease their palm,
      Only thing they do better than laziness is corruption.
      And youll find Heroin hard to get!
      Its all cocaine in Latin America.
      Just cultural differences.

    • Morning LC. Sounds like Safari may be set up for https only access. When you see the warning message is there not an option to ignore it and connect anyway? I don’t know Safari so maybe someone else can advise you on the settings.

  5. When it comes to Spain I have little or no interest, they can do what they like. “I know notheeeng”.

    In other news, great to see that fucking mong Joshua got a bloody good pasting last night! Hurrah and huzzah!!

  6. Why have you spent half your life in South America and now Spain ?…are you on the Interpol “Most Wanted” list?… What do you know about The Great Train Robbery ?

    • Morning Mr F…I was rather tending toward Mr Polly being Europe’s largest importer of Columbian marching powder.
      Although surely the dagós don’t snort much of the stuff themselves; it’d not be in keeping with their unproductive, languid tendencies.

      • Morning,Mr.Cunt-Engine.

        I did wonder if he was anything to do with The Odessa File …..perhaps that “Hunting Hitler” documentary finally has it’s answer.

      • They were a few accomplices they never found. Could Mr Polly have been involved? On the run all these years? Only breaking cover to post on ISAC?

    • I spent many years as a journalist and ended up in the tropics and eventually in the arms of a Latin lovely. Would not mind living in Spain despite my moans about the odd eating customs and habits. In a bar last night where one of the tapas was creamed sea urchin served in the shell. My daughter declared it delicious while I went outside for some fresh air.

  7. It’s an arid shithole.
    Their lager is rubbish and it’s very nice to recall they were overrun by Mudslimes for centuries.

    That could never happen here.

    Can’t wait to watch the boxing,the gurning blek cunt.

  8. All the Spaniards i’ve met are all loco.
    The bird at work who refused to be tested because she was certain they would implant little robots up her hooter
    and another one there who was a slimey little nark who would regularly report staff to HR and deny it .

    • Perhaps time to rub your unshowered helmet around the inside rims of their coffee cups, FF?

    • Poor AJ 😀😁😂
      Not a belt to hold up his trunks!
      Spanked on home ground.
      What a shame.
      Send yourself a valentine’s card to cheer yourself up AJ,
      Maybe stick Mama Mia or Cats on the dvd player?

      (There’s a AJ nom that’s just come in. We’ll get it processed and scheduled pronto – Day Admin)

      • Fuck him, the chocolate drop, BLM-supporting prick.
        Nice to see a honky beating a black man, just like things used to be.

      • Morning Thomas,
        Yes, just missing a pith helmet and a whip.
        I wanted to see those belts unified and a broken sobbing AJ at the feet of Tyson Fury,
        But I’ll settle for this!
        Bet Ajs reflection wouldn’t meet his eye this morning in his 20ft gilt mirror?
        😂

      • Speaking of whips, I got rather excited when I saw the picture of the border patrol officers on horseback chasing down the tide of Haitian scum pouring into Texas.
        Alas, they weren’t whipping them (as the Democrats have alleged); the “whips” were just long horse reins.

      • Haha how splendid..I’d almost forgotten about those filthy cunts after the deep joy of learning the blek lies mither dark key had been thoroughly defeated.

      • RNLI, “Border” Force vessel and coastguard chopper are having a busy afternoon off Dover. No sign of the Frogs, of course.

  9. Eating in Spain? Never been.

    Eating “out”. Done that quite a few times 👍
    Be warned though, Spanish wimminz can be hirsute bitches😋

  10. I have only eaten once in Spain – hamburger at Madrid airport. Quite acceptable.
    But Chile’s bloody brilliant.

    • Depends on where you eat Komodo.

      Regional specialities are kept….. regional.

      For the best lamb eat in Extremadura.
      Best sardines are in Málaga.
      The only paella worth eating is in Valencia.
      Pork is excellent in Aracena.
      Jamón is the best from Salamanca.

      For a full English breakfast or anything with chips then try any Costa.

  11. 9am for breaky is understandable 11am- 2 for lunch.

    But you are quite honestly an insane cunt who should be kept clear from society if eating dinner anytime after 9 pm and should be flogged publicly on a whipping post for all to see

    Sure its fine to have a snack after 9pm but a full three course meal? Are you completely bonkers?! Into the straitjacket you fucking loon!

  12. Any cuntry that thinks killing bulls is sport can fuck right off. I love it when a matador gets gored. Fucking cunts whenever they eat.

    • I agree that the killing of bulls in Spain for sport is unacceptable.

      A ‘handful’ of bulls may be killed at fights in Spain on a given day. Unacceptable.

      ‘Tens of thousands’ of sheep have their throats cut, (without prior stunning), in Britain every day, – all in the name of Islam.
      This apparently is absolutely fine.

      We call ourselves a nation of animal lovers.
      Yet this barbaric practice operates on a grand scale and is virtually unchallenged.

  13. Recently went to Malta an a Michelin resturant for our10th wedding anniversary. Sat down at 8.30 and had some entres, mouthed bouche, and starter. Main course came at 11pm. Fuck me! Slowest service ever.

  14. Recently went to Malta an a Michelin resturant for our10th wedding anniversary. Sat down at 8.30 and had some entres, mouthed bouche, and starter. Main course came at 11pm. Fuck me! Slowest service ever.

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