The Spanish invasion of England

The Captain Alatriste serie? Incidentally the novel Sun of Breda is the only Alatriste novel that is translated into Dutch.

Yes, it was one of Perez Reverte's Alatriste novels, but I do not remember wich -probably Sun of Breda, as it happened in a siege, but since the poor man never gets a moment's peace it could have been anywere.
If you rememebr the scene too, then that's where it was.

Mmmm. All this talk of spanish tercios has made me nostalgic. It may be time to re-read the series.
 
Oh, in Spain you have "morcilla" which is a blood-sausage, "callos" which is a stew made of the stomach and intestines of the cow, "criadillas" or lamb testicles, as well as raw smoked lamb tongue... So this would not have stopped the spaniards

That is a nasty, nasty piesce of libel. Spaniards only eat paella and potato omelette. Sticking things inside a stomach and eating it is something only weird people born on the british islands would think acceptable (all that rain and mist must be responsible). And I assure you the rumors of botillo, that imaginary dish made of a pig's stomach and filled with all the otherwise useless bone and flesh remains (with lots of pepper), smoked and then boiled, is just that, a rumor.
 
Rakhasa, how disappointing.:(

Surely no dish involving pork and lots of pepper could be entirely bad?




As for the report that the Scots invented the rumors of haggis to conceal from the English that Scotland had decent food, I suspect it might have been just to conceal from the English that Scotland had any food at all not confiscated by English tax collectors.:D
 
Rakhasa, how disappointing.:(

Surely no dish involving pork and lots of pepper could be entirely bad?




As for the report that the Scots invented the rumors of haggis to conceal from the English that Scotland had decent food, I suspect it might have been just to conceal from the English that Scotland had any food at all not confiscated by English tax collectors.:D

Grimm

What. The Scots had food other than what they stole from England? No wonder they didn't die out once we got the border properly guarded.:(:p

Steve
 

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If Queen Elizabeth lost London, I think she'd swear an oath to the devil and be made into a vampire. Known as Elizabeta la Vampira to the local Catholics, whom she preys on.

What....it could happen.


During the sea battle, were their now two armadas? One from Spain that met the English and another from the Netherlands. Say, if they communicated and coordinating their attack, the Netherlands armada could have encircled and trapped the English fleet from behind, destroying it...

As for the English Catholics helping the Spanish, I can't say, part of me wants to think they were very proud of being English and would never do such a thing, but that's because I've watched Showtime's Henry VIII and saw Elizabeth, the Golden Years that depicted the English as country first types of follows, which could be not true.
 
Rakhasa, how disappointing.:(

Surely no dish involving pork and lots of pepper could be entirely bad?

Actually is very good. Let's see if I remember an aproximate recipe... you pick the bigger intestine, the ones too big for chorizo (the stomach too, but that particular botillo is just enormous!). Then you break the spine and part of the ribs (with, ovbiously, some meat still on then) in small chunks -some people also add the tail, but many prefer the tail alone on its own dish-You season the bones with pepper, salt and garlic (the same seasoning you'll use for the chorizo sausages, as in fact you do both things at once) and let it cure with smoke.

Once it is cures, it is traditionally boiled in a huge pot of soup with potatoes, chickpeas, chorizo and othe assorted pieces of pork, and the whole thing is then served in three helpings (soup, chickpeas and pork). It is a winter meal, delicious, warming, and probably rises your cholesterol levels just passing near the kitchen door.
 
In Defence of the Haggis

If the Spanish encountered the Scots on their own territory, they would find as Burns did, that the Haggis makes good men and worthy warriors.
 
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