Learn Spanish with. The man who ate a Ham with 17 soft drinks
At the end of this post you can see the video where I speak fast, in slang and you may not understand me. My purpose is not to make you NOT UNDERSTAND ME, but to make you DO the exercises so that one day you will UNDERSTAND ME PERFECTLY.
There are several places in Spain specialising in the production of this succulent foodstuff. Jabugo, Dehesa de Extremadura, Guijuelo, Pedroche, Teruel... are some of them.
I was living in Cáceres (Extremadura) for a while and I remember that the ham was not only exquisite but also inexpensive, but what I remember most is a man I met over wine who told me that one day he ate a whole ham .... helped by 17 TriNaranjus. I don't know which is worse.
I'll tell you the story
It was in 2005 when I met this man called Valentín Valiente in the bar below my house. He was a man of about 75 years old, stocky, bald and he talked a lot and very loudly. I had a lot of fun with him because he was very funny. A lot
Valentín was always in the bar drinking Agua Sucia, which is a young wine common in those lands. That wine made you addicted after two glasses. It had a low alcohol content, it was served fresh and it was very, very cheap. It was very good! I remember that in the Bar Renault (the name of that bar) it was rare to see anyone order any other drink than Agua Sucia.
I lived alone. I didn't have a partner, and my family was 400 kilometres away, so after work I went to the Renault bar to watch football, chat and drink wine, and I felt very much in the company of all the good people I met there. Among them was Valentín Valiente.
Valentín had a very good mouth, he was always nibbling on the tapas that Manolo was serving us and he was always swallowing and it was during one of these when I told him what I thought he ate when someone else, who was next to him, told me what he was famous for in the neighbourhood.
Valentin one day ate a whole ham pushed with 17 TriNaranjus!
But ....
How can a person eat a ham by himself?
Do you know how much a ham weighs?
How much does a ham lose? 50%?
Valentín said that it was not his purpose to finish the leg of ham, but it all started, and one cut after another and then another made him finish the ham.
The bad thing was not the ham, but that he drank 17 lemon TriNaranjus while he was eating it.
Have you ever tasted TriNaranjus? .... He drank 17 of them.
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