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This is a non-sense of article as other spaniards have commented. The only companies that close 3 hours in the middle of the day are the shops, usually small sh
by jorgemf 9y ago
This is a non-sense of article as other spaniards have commented. The only companies that close 3 hours in the middle of the day are the shops, usually small shops. They do it because for long part of the year no one goes to the street from 2pm to 5pm, because it is so fucking hot. So instead, our culture close the shops at those times but keep them opens until 9pm or later. It is very common to see shops full of people from 7pm to 9pm.
Some offices have 2 hours lunch break, which I also find non-sense. But 1 hour is usually not enough for us for lunch, we don't eat sandwiches, we are used to do a proper meal with 2 dishes, dessert and coffee.
We also eat quite late, around 2pm or 3pm, but that is mostly because our time doesn't match the Solar time. We should have 1,5 hour less in our clocks. Which makes we really eat at 12:30-1pm of sun time. That is what most countries do as well.
We do take naps, only in summer on our holidays. Usually from 3pm to 5pm, because as I said, it is so fucking hot in summer at those hours. But any foreign who is here in summer does the same (actually probably more % of foreigns take naps than spaniash). People who also have an intense 8hours day job from 7am to 3pm they also take naps, because they wake up quite early and the social life starts at 6-7pm.
Bonus: we don't add chorizo to the paella. The chorizo is mostly for the bbq
- harperlee 9y agoI don't want to start the most alien flamewar in the history of HN, but if we start listing what does not go into paella we might end up with an mpty paella...
- jorgemf 9y agoIt was a joke, there were a flamewar because of someone putting chorizo in the paella: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/04/jamie-oliver-angers-spaniards-with-insulting-paella-recipe/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/04/jamie-oliver-ange... The response in twitter was very funny
- harperlee 9y agoSorry, mine was also a joke :). Paella is originally from Valencia, but prepared all over Spain, and that leads to some local variations and creative results. International exposure to tourists and foreign cooks has created an even bigger variety of paellas. But since some years ago, there has been a growing group of Valencians that have been very outspoken (with varying levels of seriousness) about what goes into a paella, and what makes it just an "arroz con cosas" (rice plus things). They even successfully lobbied to have a correct paella icon in unicode! https://emojipedia.org/shallow-pan-of-food/ https://emojipedia.org/shallow-pan-of-food/ But, to great jest, a lot of implementations got it wrong (only apple, twitter, and emojipedia get it right in the previously link). Supposedly, paella just adds chicken, rabbit, green beans and habones (big white beans) to a saffroned rice.
- jknightco 9y agoIn addition to ingredients, the real distinguishing factor that makes paella paella and not "arròs amb coses" is that the entire dish—including the broth—is prepared from scratch within the paella (the pan, outside of Valencia they're called paelleras). The best online recipe I've found for the whole process is: http://www.lapaella.net/receta-paella-valenciana/ http://www.lapaella.net/receta-paella-valenciana/
- josephjrobison 9y agoBocadillos seemed popular (in Pamplona) - are those not typically eating during lunch, or are they just created for foreigners to eat in the street?
- jorgemf 9y agoThat is not a proper lunch. You can eat them for lunch but you don't do it for more than two days in a row. It is not healthy. We have so much good food in spain that no one will eat bocadillos for lunch. We have some called lunch menu where you usually can choose among 3 starters, 3 main dishes and dessert, which also includes drink and coffee sometimes. It is cheaper during weekdays, for 8-12€ you can have these menus. A bocadillo with drink would be 5-7€, so for a little more you can eat healthy.
- pjmlp 9y ago> Bonus: we don't add chorizo to the paella. The chorizo is mostly for the bbq You should try it here in Germany, I was astonied the first time I saw them adding mayonnaise to the paella.
- jknightco 9y agoAlioli is actually a super common condiment for paellas/arroces, especially seafood ones. A good "arròs negre" (black rice dish made with cuttlefish ink) is awesome with a super garlicky alioli.
- jknightco 9y agoAlioli is actually a super common condiment for paellas/arroces, especially seafood ones. A good "arròs negre" (black rice dish made with cuttlefish ink) is awesome with a super garlicky alioli.
- jorgemf 9y agoAs the other commenter said, we also add Alioli, which is mayonnaise with garlic. Although the original one is only garlic and olive oil. (Ali means garlic and oli means oil in Valencian)
- magic_beans 9y agoFor the people that eat lunch for 2 hours... do they go out to lunch every single day?? No one brings lunch from home?
- jorgemf 9y agoIt depends. Some people bring food some go out. But for 10€ is not worth for everybody to wake up earlier to prepare the meal and later have to warm it up in the microwave. You just go out and lunch. Some companies also have a special compensation for this, they give lunch tickets that you can spend in a lot of restaurants. Those tickets are like real money and are part of your salary but you don't pay taxes for them.
- magic_beans 9y ago10 euros a day, 5 days a week, is 2,400 euros a year... The meal ticket thing I understand.
- jorgemf 9y agoIt depends on the company, they usually don't pay the full meal price. Probably is less and it should be around 1000-1500 a year. I have no idea how are things now with the tickets. (For most people in spain 1000-1500€ is a month salary)
- leipert 9y agoYup, it's really crazy that you have the same timezone like Germany. The most Western point of (mainland) Spain is at -9.25 Longitude, and time would be correct at +15 Longitude, that's more than 1.5 timezones. Even Barcelona at around +2 Longitude is almost a whole timezone off.
- pvaldes 9y agoA remind of the dictature and the world war politics that never got fixed. Franco adopted the same timezone as Germany to please Hitler.