I don’t think I ever want to hear the words “jamón ibérico” ever again. I love the idea of jamón marking a christian home or restaurant, but literally every christian restaurant makes it clear that they sell jamón. It’s kind of exhausting.
In the time that moors ruled Spain there was tons of pigs but no one was eating them because they were muslim. So when the christian’s took over, just like they did with the towns and mosques left behind, they took all the pigs left behind. Now you can probably see how it was a christian thing to put a raw pig leg in front of your doorpost.
It just got to be too much in my opinion though. So next time you listen to Rick Steves raving about jamón, take it with a grain of salt. (Pun kinda intended) 😉
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