Things I Thought I Knew (Part I)

When you learn Spanish there are plenty of words which take a long time to stick your head. I have already covered a few of these before but today I want to look at a different kind of word. These are the ones which you instinctively think you know but later it turns out that you were barking up the wrong tree.

Chicharrón

There was a bakery shop across from where I took my early Spanish lessons and it sold pan de chicarrón. This seemed to be bread with bits of meat in it, so to me chicharrón was just any sort of tiny pieces of meat. I have since seen it loads of menus and have occasionally felt a twinge of curiosity as to whether it is some type of meat in particular or not. Today is the day when I finally got round to checking it out and, hey, it’s a good result. It turns to be pork rinds fried in beer. I used to eat this stuff in bread so you can be as jealous of me as you like.