Sunday, May 9, 2010

Hay caracoles!

There is a popular letra in flamenco that sings about caracoles (SNAILS!) The lines I love to sing along to is "HAY CARACOLES!" - which is basically saying "We have snails!" And now, walking around the city, every restaurant is announcing they have snails. So the words were taken directly from real life - I love that.






I suppose this one would sing "NO HAY CARACOLES!"


I see people eating them all the time with their beers like peanuts. So I woke up yesterday and decided, for my adventure of the day, that I would try the caracoles. I thought I didn't like them because of a bad experience with them in Greece 10 years ago - BUT I WAS WRONG! They're delicious!

But still really gross looking.

Here's me singing, "Hay caracoles!" with the caracoles.

Here's Einat scared shitless to try her 1st one.

I finally made friends with the snails...although I
think I'll still fear stepping on them barefoot.

Here is a video of the our first encounter with the snails.

And here is a proper demonstration of eating them.
WARNING: It's very graphic (Josh can't watch it!)


The End - our empty little shells.

Then we went for ice-cream and sat by the 1,000 year old trees.

I love when art is made directly out of the simplest of life's pleasures, and this song is a perfect example of that. The song I will write will sing,

"HAY DIAS BUENOS!"

4 comments:

  1. Dylan can't stop talking about you eating the snails, She makes a throw up noise every time she talks about it. Her teacher is from Spain, and she said she's going to tell her that you did that! hehehehe

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  2. Me encantan los caracoles. Cuando regreses a California, ¡vamos a buscar un restaurante que los sirva!

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  3. I've heard caracoles are great right before a healthy make-out session. You should surprise Josh!

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