A restaurant trick of yesteryear was to play with the size of the dishes so that the customer was convinced that they had more manduca than what they had actually been served. Some tricks are more or less cute, but the size of the coffee cups served in hospitality should be classified in the Penal Code.
Today the fix is very common in the food industry, which often packages by expanding it so that a meager serving of custard can pass for a complete dessert. Carefully choosing the continent is the most obvious way to show off the content, as we have known since we wanted furs, in addition to saving us from glaciation, to be cute.
King Felipe II was a trend this weekend without having returned to life because that is the name of the Madrid avenue chosen by the Popular Party to bring together the angry opponents of an investiture and an amnesty that are still virtual. The PP's effort to sign a full house was efficient, and the aerial photos of the square seemed to rival the gigantic demonstrations of March 8, 2018 and 2019, although strictly speaking the latter concentrated about twenty times more protesters.
The reason is the small size of Felipe II Avenue, which triangulates Alcalá and Narváez in a single block, and of Salvador Dalí Square, into which it ends. Both are usually filled to the brim when a WiZink Center concert that has been sold out is over. In round numbers, that means that with less than 15,000 souls, the esplanade already seems difficult to navigate.
Officially, the PP gave a perhaps exaggerated but not crazy figure – 45,000 attendees – although on the social network formerly known as Twitter, where we are all inclined to hyperbole, the party's official account claimed to have “gathered more people than any other political act in democracy.” Because, why use a broad brush when there are painter's rollers.
The event, in any case, served to ensure that the candidate for the investiture was successfully supported by his people – although, as is customary in Madrid, including the Genoa balcony, the most cheered was once again Isabel Díaz Ayuso – a few hours before the very probable failure of his candidacy for the presidency.
One thing and the other, the success of the first and the defeat of the second, are clearly related to the dedication that Feijóo has given to both issues these weeks, so we must assume that it is a balance that he counted on.
For now, avoiding the Castellana soup bowl and choosing Philip II's dessert plate, he has shown that he understood what Carlos Faemino was referring to when, faced with a meager portion plated on a generous earthenware airport, he exclaimed, running over the syntax: " You put food there until you can't see the bottom of the drawing on a plate! Or vice versa".
