The best croquette is in Madrid. The best fabada in the world is in Madrid. And the best polbo á feira. Even Spain has its own Route 66, much better than the United States, and it leaves from Madrid. The best Valencian paella is in Madrid. Madrid also hosts the best maker of paellas with chorizo.
Awards have contributed to this, the best [whatever] is in Madrid in some cases, but also the hyperbole in the hands of the press and influencers. The best Formula 1? In Madrid. The best VAR, likewise, and at the service of the best team in the world. And the bluer sky. Only the myth of tap water fell. The best street in Barcelona for tapas is in Madrid. And for some time now, Madrid has taken away from Catalonia a differential fact: it now has the best process.
It resides in Congress and is ugly processism. Exported, yes. Courtesy of a JxCat that adopts the ways of doing things (neither good nor bad, perhaps robust) of that CUP of 2015 and 2016 of which it had criticized so much that very thing, its way of proceeding. Everything that happens around the amnesty also confirms it, you: that the best chirigota is not sung in Cádiz, but in Madrid.
While in the capital they entertain themselves and boast of having the most of the most, in Catalonia they long for the incentive of the authentic process and hunger is satisfied with crumbs. German comedian Shahak Shapira brought a few. There has not been any media that has not echoed his performance in Barcelona, where he jokes with a translator in the audience who is apparently surprised that Catalan is spoken in Catalonia.
Discomfited by the avalanche of thanks for defending Catalan, he clarified certain things: 1) that he is sure that the viewer was also joking; 2) that she is not Spanish; 3) that if it was a complaint it was more about not having someone to speak English with than about encountering Catalans speaking Catalan in Catalonia, and 4) the following: “It is a comedy show where the contract between the public and me is that we talk about shit without judging each other and this environment does not translate well on the internet.”
“It's already happened to me that I made a couple of viral tweets and had the media immediately asking me to appear on their program. The journalism of anecdote and nonsense. A little embarrassing, to be honest,” laments @martacava. “The German comedian has been interviewed on national radio,” she says in the same line @annapazos with the attached image of a Ben Affleck up to his nose in everything. “We have morale and collective self-esteem where we have it (underground),” adds @kj_mestre. “We are too small a country,” says @genismiquelb.
