>“As the black people came, the white people left,” said Veronica on the radio show A vivir que son dos días, which airs on Cadena SER. “Even my friends walked away; they told me that it was bad for the bar’s image.”
The change in customers started two years ago, during the summer. After their usual hangout at the village square closed down, a few seasonal workers went up the street and decided to try out El Racó de la Vero. Some days they would take up one table, some days two. And as more Africans started to come, more locals vacated their tables and did not return.
Verónica says that nobody ever told her to her face that the atmosphere in the bar made them uncomfortable, but she did hear complaints about there being “a lot of black people” at the bar, and about the fact that they were using all the outdoor seating area. “Once a couple showed up with a child, and since all the tables outside were taken, they asked me to get a black man to give up his table so they might sit down. As if [the African workers] didn’t have the same right to be sitting there as anyone else!” says Veronica. The couple, who were regular weekend visitors, never showed up at El Racó de la Vero again.
In the space of two months, the bar turned into what it is today – a meeting place whose clients represent up to eight different nationalities. Mali, Senegal, Morocco, Guinea-Conakry, Algeria, Congo and Guinea-Bissau are just some of the countries providing the 6,000 seasonal workers who come to Alcarràs every year to pick fruit.
>There is no fixed menu. Some days there are chicken sweetbreads. Other days, there are fried anchovies or liver with onions, or fried squid rings. If they are on sale, there are chicken drumsticks that she cooks in a casserole with tomatoes, peppers and carrots. As for drinks, alcohol sales are low, while tea with lemon and honey is in high demand with as many as 200 to 300 ordered on a single day.
>The African recipes are cooked by her husband, who is from Guinea-Conakry and whom she met while running the bar. Since she opened, Vero has been discovering Africa without leaving the premises. “Now I know about their cultures, the differences between each country, and the different forms of worship depending on where they grew up,” she says, adding that her neighbors’ attitude towards her for opening her bar to the African workers on their doorstep has made her skeptical about the support for the BlackLivesMatter movement sparked by George Floyd’s death in the United States.
The neighborhood goes to shit as soon as people start blasting bix nood dat bass music at max volume in their cars. Is their hearing naturally bad?
Jaxson Diaz
But do they still smell like niggers?
Owen Richardson
> Sit down on your local taverna > It's the regular watering hole you have been visiting for years > Suddenly most of the outdoor tables are filled with African men > Young African men talking and hooting loudly and speaking their strange languages > Taverna owner is surprised the regulars stop coming there
It wouldn't be a problem if it was ONE table, but when every outdoor seating is taken by foreign nationals speaking 3 different strange languages, it begins to get a bit annoying I think Also, Sourthern Europeans are notoriously racist, it runs in their blood to enslave people from the south of their countries, not to have them occupying tables at the local watering hole like regular human beings
Austin Campbell
>Serving them is Verónica Argelet, who is known to the workers as Mama Africa
The rice black sausage is a type of black sausage that contains rice inside. It is a sausage product that is traditionally made in the slaughter of the pig using their blood and mixed with rice slightly scalded and very drained. It appears in various Iberian cuisines (Spain and Portuguese gastronomy in the region of Leiria).1 As well as in Asian cuisines.2 It usually has a rice content, by weight, which can vary depending on the region, ranging from a third to a fifth of its total weight.3 Rice acts as a thickener, as well as a source of carbohydrates. It is a sausage that requires cooking in water (in this case it is part of the cooked ones), or fried in hot oil or grilled, it is rarely eaten raw. It is usually part of the filling of some dishes.
i was brought up in Spain, my father is from the Balearic islands.. when i used to hang out with my friends there, they would openly call the Africans selling fake sunglasses niggers and what not.. racism is more open in med countries i find, in northern europe people tend to keep in behind closed doors with trusted friends.
Lincoln Nguyen
It's more about owning the environment and a little less about incapacity to theorise that someone else could be bothered by it, a requisite for common courtesy.
Julian Gomez
The town's first mistake was allowing a race mixer to live. The second mistake was to bring in so many African cheap laborers.
Samuel Sanders
It's just rarely so obvious. Selling wine and beer to spaniards is much more profitable than selling tea and fried chicken innards to africans. If she was smart she'd retool during the off season instead of catering to these niggers. It can't be good for the bottom line, especially since the niggers are seasonal fruit pickers. Instead this dumb broad will shoot herself in the foot to show how tolerant she is and then try to drum up sympathy online. Fucking leftists, I swear.
this is literally a skit from its always sunny in philly
Gabriel Roberts
from the thumbnail i thought it was justin trudeau
Carson Myers
This is exactly what being American feels like. You Eurocucks all laughed. Well, enjoy. We're all going extinct now.
Caleb Davis
This is my favorite food.
Easton Brooks
>Sourthern Europeans are notoriously racist Not true, at least the Spanish. >it runs in their blood to enslave people from the south of their countries Which people did we enslave?
John Diaz
No nigger on the face of Earth is "fine".
Henry White
That newspapers website is Marxist propaganda OP. Fuck off.
Luke Green
Has she been robbed at gunpoint yet?
Luke Flores
>There is no fixed menu >why are my local customers leaving? Adopt nigger habits, expect nigger patrons
>seasonal workers >spain >a country ith 30% youth unemployment friendly reminder that if we rope the neoliberals who control the economy and got people to pay living wages we wouldn't need to import shitskins
Bentley Green
>which people Pretty much the entire Americas
Austin Morris
Sounds good desu. We have black pudding, pretty much the same but fat instead of rice.
It is daft to think regulars wouldn't go elsewhere though, it's just human nature. It's the same when a bunch of European mine staff start going to bars in West Africa.
Logan King
>serving dishes that seasonal fruit laborers can afford There is no food on any table, just drinks
Isaiah Edwards
oh no no no
Jose Turner
>Cosmopolites baffled to discover most of the general population are not cosmopolites many such cases
