Brits can be many things, but generally they do not pass for being the most gourmet tourists in the world. Neither for being the best cooks and, often, they do go down in the annals of history as one of the biggest sinners if we talk about eating.
The Valencian paella, which is very commonly turned into rice with things, It is usually together with sangria their culinary base when they arrive in Spain, regardless of whether they stay in Cullera or O’Grove.
For this reason, it is not surprising that in London gastronomic aberrations against paella can be seen that would make more than one Valencian fly into a rage. In fact, even a man from Madrid like Alberto Chicote qualifies as “it doesn’t make sense” one of his last discoveries in the british capital.
As TV show trailer Are you going to eat it? broadcast by La Sexta, the popular chef dares to travel to England to see what they refer to in the United Kingdom as spanish food. The mix of concepts You can already imagine that nothing good, but perhaps not to the extremes that Chicote has discovered.
Curd tortillas and paella wraps
It is not, as seen in the piece, the only disagreement that Chicote suffers, of course. If you are a lover of slightly curdled potato tortillas, the one found in Chicote in London will make you want summon the Invincible Armada with a “curd, curd” omelette.
However, the most offensive for Chicote It turns out to be the abomination that is committed with paella that, surely, was a rice with things and did not have rabbit, garrofó or bajoqueta, but almost better seeing what they did with it.
“It doesn’t make any sense to put a paella inside a bread dough”, lamented Chicote when he took a bite of a paella wrap and it seems that when we talk about wraps, anything goes.
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Condemned to understand each other —or not—, the truth is that the popularization of Spanish cuisine In the United Kingdom it has been increasing in recent years, but if it is at the expense of recipes like these, we would almost say that it is better not to be making itself known.