A friendly Madrileno told me that the common house-fly was the inspiration for the tapas phenomenon. In rough restaurants of Castile and Galicia, patrons drinking at the bar used to be bothered by flies crash-landing in their wine; so they used to cover the glass with a coaster. One day, someone asked the chef to bung him a gherkin to put on the coaster. Later the cardboard plate could carry a bit of cheese, a cut of pork loin or a morsel of morcilla (fried black pudding) … and the Spanish hors d'oeuvre was born. It's graduated since then to greater heights of sophistication but essentially remains a series of fancy snacks for chatty, wine-swilling compadres to share.
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