Once in a while I take a walk with one of my friends, and afterwards we have a coffee an a sandwich in a cafe. We talk about our lives, and the world in general. This time my friend asked me if I knew of a new place to go to, because the place we used to go to, we did not like anymore, so I told her about a new place in the neighbourhood. All I knew was that it looked like a cafe, but that was just a superficial impression. I hadn’t had the chance yet to find out more. We decided to go there. The shop had a sign in Spanish. When we got there, everything was as we expected, we saw through the windows people drinking coffee sitting at tables inside. It was obviously a cafe so we went inside.
When we sat down at a table with our drinks and looked around the cafe we noticed hams all over the place. I thought it was a somewhat lugubrious decoration of the place. I don’t eat meat at all,and never go to a butcher. My friend never eats pork. Then I noticed they had whole hams with the leg in it. We took a better look than we did before and realised this wasn’t a cafe at all, but a ham shop. From the outside it wasn’t obvious. At that moment the waiter arrived and asked for our order. I looked at him with a smile and said I didn’t think so as I don’t eat meat. The waiter answered with a straight face that he could bring me a cheese sandwich if desired. But we didn’t want a sandwich anymore. We left the ham shop laughing. A ham shop, a hilarious mistake. I didn’t even know ham specialty shops exist. Later on I noticed that the shop was a kind of specialty store for Spanish food. The shop did not stay there for long. This was probably not the right neighbourhood for the kind of products they offered.
October 2024