Re: USAGE: Meals [was: RE: Re(2): USAGE: Pop, smearcase, kolaches]

On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Barry Garcia wrote:

>fflores@arnet.com.ar writes:
>>My breakfast and my _merienda_ are usually composed of milk and
>>chocolate, or tea, or black coffee, plus crackers and jam or
>>cookies, and maybe _dulce de leche_ (Argentine creation, you have
>>to try it!). The biggest meal of the day is generally the _almuerzo_;
OK.  How do you make it?  Is it something you buy off the shelf or is
it made from scratch?

>>some people barely have _cena_ (it's not good to eat a lot just
>>before you go to bed!).
>
>Hmm dulce de leche.......i think they sell that in Mexican food stores (or
>something like that, i remember it being a kind of grainy caramel type
>product). Filipinos also do "meryenda", but it's in general just snacks,
>and not at a designated time of day (Filipinos tend to eat here and there
>throughout the day).  I remember from the culture part of my Spanish
>classes that cena in Spain at least usually happens around ten pm and
>sometimes later.
Yep.  And then you go out to bars for drinks and snacks after.  I am
_not_ a bar hopper, so that was the most dreadful part of my time in
Spain.  I'm also not much of an alchohol drinker, so I drank lots of
coke.  Which our teacher took to calling "caca-cola", because a few of
us would drink little else.  Bar tenders got a laugh out of it. :)

>>
>>And that's the cause for many indigestions after Christmas. You
>>*have* to eat a lot, late in the evening, and it's all food more
>>suited to the European Christmas (highly caloric pork, almonds,
>>nougats, etc. + cider at a 30 degrees C evening).
>
>Interesting. Here for Christmas in my family at least, we usually have
>pastries before we head off for Midnight mass. Sometimes we do it
>afterwards. Also, we have dinner around 6 pm at my grandmothers, and it's
>usually ham, salads, and sandwiches.
>
We usually do the same, but before 9 o'clock mass, in Spanish since we
like the play and the music.  And midnight is too crowded and late.
On the other hand, we're usually there until 11:30 or so, so we
sometimes stay and listen to the (English) choir give a little recital
beforehand.

Speaking of festivities, did anyone attend la griteria last week?

Padraic.