That's paella?! Twitter user sparks horror among Valencians
Thursday, June 13, 2019 @ 10:07 AM
VALENCIAN social media users are incensed once again after the latest offence of 'taking paella in vain' – a Twitter post showing a colander of boiled rice with a slice of processed meat on top has brought forth a volley of swearing online.
User 'Glifo' (@Interm1t3nt3) posted the unappetising picture with the caption, “Hey guys! Look at this Spanish paella I just made.”
One comment in reply said: “Not even my dog would eat this.”
Another made reference to an earlier paella-related 'blasphemy' – when Jamie Oliver's recipe for the typical eastern-region rice dish with spicy sausage was hammered on social media.
“Where is the chorizo?” asked Semper Nata (@mateo_84).
Others posted photographs of people with disgusted-looking faces, and another responded with a GIF of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un and the caption, “At least the war has started, so I'll leave it there.”
Oliver, in his defence, claimed at the time – in October 2016 – that a 'Spanish grandmother had told him' to add chorizo.
His was not the only 'culinary blasphemy' to set social media steaming: a 'banoffee paella' hit the shelves of Dominique Ansel's eponymous London and New York restaurants two months later.
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