The time has come to incorporate glorious names of Valencian society into this glossary, but without doing it haphazardly, with rigor and temperance. I'm talking about personalities who helped forge our black legend. Black is understood as the abundance of melatonin. And who better than Eduardo Zaplana Hernández-Soro, the president with the darkest complexion in the history of the Generalitat. It is my wish that some contemporaries accompany you in this delivery. Don't get mad at me.
CACAU DEL COLLARET: Mythological figure of the Valencian imagination, because it practically does not exist. 99.9% of what is sold labeled as "Cacau del Collaret" is not, it comes from China. The only ones who plant and market this endemic variety are: the Alepuz Family (Benifaió, Almussafes); Ca Climent (The Coast); Toni Montoliu in Meliana.
EL TITI: Figure from the couplet. Eurofan ahead of its time. Had he been born in the 70s-80s and been active today, he would be the perfect candidate to represent Spain in Eurovision. His song “Libérate” would win the contest even with a mediocre staging.
EXPENSE: Stipulated price to pay for the services and elements that are shared at a bar table, always in the event that the client brings food from home. We are referring to salad, peanuts, olives, tramussos, drinks and coffee. If you pay for a lunch, all of these items are already included in the final price. Expense as a concept only makes sense if it is paid for separately from lunch.
MASCLETÀ: Pyrotechnic show, normally daytime, based on the rhythm and sound of gunpowder. It consists of different phases, which combine aerial fireworks with terrestrial fireworks, ending with a thunderous earthquake that makes us Valencians vibrate in body and soul. If a mascletà is celebrated in Madrid, “Pecas” will never forgive you.
MARÍA CONSUELO REYNA: The woman with the most media power and real political influence that has existed in Valencia. She hated by her enemies, and feared by all. So much so that even the board of directors of the newspaper Las Provincias, made up of members of her family, when she was fired in September 1999, informed her by internal email.
NEW MESTALLA: The best midfield in Europe.
CENTRAL MERCAT: The most beautiful market in the world, but we don't know until when.
PACO ROIG: Former president of Valencia CF with a career full of few lights and many shadows. Of the brothers, Roig is the most opaque. No Valencia fan would have missed him before the Lim era. That has changed.
PARDAL: Sig.1: Bird. Sig.2: Cock. Sig.3: Asshole.
PETANQUE: The last competitive sport that human beings practice. It is played with hardly any spectators, except in Xeraco where, sometimes, they put stands for the public.
ROSITA AMORES: Musical magazine star who became popular for facing life bare-chested, driven by two great reasons. She was one of the secret weapons of Rus in the last electoral campaigns, as she was the protagonist of the matinees for the elderly that Alfonso organized at the Charity. She once had to go to the SAMUR.
RUTA: (La Ruta) Socio-musical phenomenon born in the 80s in Valencia, which declined at the end of the 90s. Rivers of ink have flowed about it, books have been written, series and documentaries have been filmed, but none signed by the real ones. protagonists of the Valencian night, or survivors of it. Most of them made by fans of remember, who have been poorly documented and invented things. With the recent publication of Miguel Jiménez Luján's book, "True History of the Cod Route" things changed. Someone in the first person has been able to tell it.
ZAPLANA, EDUARDO: Former Honorable Molt. He held the presidency of the Generalitat Valenciana from 1995 to 2002. Until now he has been able to avoid justice and death. Someone defined him as “Trickster with tentacles”, in honor of his social capillarity and one of the most popular hits of Julio Iglesias, with whom he shares a friendship since his time as mayor of Benidorm.
(Will continue)
