"Anticrisis Menu"

Yes, there is such a thing. I found this fun story on Univision.com today as I was learning my daily headlines and I thought i would share it with you. This goes specially to my Latin team, Vero and Lina, they are Spanish natives who am sure will be drooling over this story.

In the north of Spain (Asturias), there is a small local resturant call "Sidrería de Gijón " that offers the right combination of food for its clients during times of crisis like the ones we are going through now. This restaurant offers one complete menu once a week for 1 euro, which is about $1.25, which they call their "Anticrisis Menu". Now how many of you would go out to eat everyday for that price here???...i have my hand in the air too ;-).

The menu starts with a seafood soup, the choice between rice with rib meat or salad with anchovy, in addition to a slice of bread, a drink and dessert. The resturant used to serve about 6 complete meals a day, with this offer they now serve about 200 a day. In Spain, a typical meal like this one would cost about 10 times that, about 10 euros or $12 dollars.

And let me tell you, when I was in Spain, a typical meal included about four dishes of food, plus bread, and wine and usually lasts about 2+ hours. Seafood is a main dish is Spain, I had the luxury to try real Paeya and Jamon (ham), you have no idea how much I would love to eat that right now :-).