Many Catalans would have hung Quique Peinado like a communion suit. There, in the closet, until I forget it. If they can't play something for us, it's the one that doesn't sound and the pa amb tomàquet. The journalist and comedian dared to pose (rogue) on Twitter: “People of Catalonia. Don't you think that, perhaps, when you put on a sandwich it would be necessary to ask if you want bread with tomato and not take it for granted? He exposed it aware that it would cause controversy and practically with a boyeriano “I leave it there” and that they fight.
The majority have understood that there is no bad faith in the question from Madrid. Yes, there is mischief, but not criticism or a supposed centralist vision. But there are always censors of Roald Dahl. What if "colonial mentality", what if "Spanish riffraff who wants to destroy all Catalan customs"... When the Valencians get their paellas, turning them into the closest thing to three delights rice or some Asturian heretic they even add chorizo , what we Catalans laugh at. Whoever wants revenge should go to Madrid and ask for a stew without blood sausage. To the case: it is the other way around, if you are in Catalonia the sandwich is smeared on the way out and it is the customer who notifies them in advance that they do not want tomato.
But be patient, it can happen like when you ask for a Coke with ice and without lemon: the slice will still appear in the glass. The same one with which the comedian criminalizes all those who squeeze it into squids – "I immolate myself in this because I know that I am not alone," says Peinado. He doesn't talk about those who put cucumber in their gin and tonic and then take it away from the big mac.
The pa amb tomàquet, tomàtiga or tomata is a State structure. The journalist Néstor Luján wrote in 1984 in this newspaper that the first mention in Catalan literature that he caught was of Pompeu Gener, in 1884, parodying medieval Catalan poetry. But perhaps it is true that pa amb tomàquet is also a passion that we Catalans have not been able to (or have not wanted) to export. Nor have we managed to take root in Catalonia. Luján himself already speaks in that article of the attack that involves "the tomato sauce prepared and spread with a brush on the bread."
The pa amb tomàquet has also been in the news this week for another reason. @marvila_pr showed a Barcelona bus with an advertisement where saying that Catalan is mistreated is saying little. In addition, here yes, it uses a centralism: the Spanish denomination pa tumaca. If there is war, the cossit option to catalanize the stew will be contemplated. I blow myself up too, Quique, because I know I won't be alone either.
