Ona and I were talking about this again this morning, it’s really remarkable. like, the **bread** is worse, the coffee is worse. we ordered a dish at a restaurant with great reviews—we were at the bar, the place was packed. wild mushrooms with a fried egg, to share. great, let’s go, love it. it was **just** mushrooms with an egg, I don’t even think it was salted. no sauce, no aeromatics, nothing. price: €22. we were **laughing** 

 i don’t even understand how it would occur to someone to produce a dish like this. cook like this in BCN and your restaurant will be fucking EMPTY. full stop. and we had several “wtf” experiences like that.

it really, really, really made us appreciate Barcelona and Catalonia. there’s some things we’ve come to take for granted that we really shouldn’t. 

 i don’t know if it’s proximity to France or what, but I think the Catalan palate is just better. they demand nicer things, they make nicer things. there’s a touch that’s special. food is very important to me, so Ifeel really privileged to be able to live in Catalonia. 

 @dee34601 my abiding memory of the three days i spent in barca, 7 or 8 years ago, was that everything was really salty. not sure if I went to the wrong places, or if i’m just a philistine? 

 @08c4df50 haha well the ham certainly is. I haven’t found it to be unusual but. 

 @08c4df50 (also, if you don’t want people to yell at you, barça is the team, Barna or BCN is the city [i personally don’t care, just throwing it out there]) 

 @dee34601 never heard that before! understood