That sounds so nice that German Christmas market in Europe Trotters blog. Just like in the films. I can really just imagine it, how you shuffle around from little shop to little shop with wonderful smells coming from everywhere, looking at home made Christmas presents.
Everyone should have the opportunity to go away for a weekend in December to experience this sort of thing. Maybe people would be more happy around Christmas then and not so stressed?

Three little piglets went to the market…and they all ended up in the freezer in a Spanish supermarket! These two pictures are from the Alcampo supermarket, but can generally be found in any Spanish supermarket. I know that this is what a little pig looks like and that when I eat pork it comes from a pig but still..it is a bit graphic. I’ll try to get some picture of the rabbits they sometimes have as well. Lying there de-skinned their eyes look huge and so does their front teeth and the skulls stand out. I had to look twice the first time I saw them to determine what animal it was.

In Spain you can find quite a few animal parts in the supermarkets that you don’t normally see in the UK unless you go to the butchers and, I dunno, ask specifically for them? Pigs trotters, snouts, ox tails, chicken necks etc. I think it is because it is a more rural country and it really isn’t that many years ago that a lot of people were extremely poor. So you use everything from the animal for sausages, stews and fry-ups just like we used to do in Britain.
As Britain got richer, people started only eating the nicer and choicer parts of the animals and maybe the same will happen here eventually.

I must admit if I buy some chicken I usually go for the chicken breast. I don’t buy a whole chicken and use all teh other parts for soup or paté or whatever you are supposed to do with them. And I am quite happy that there is no head on the pieces of meat that I buy as well.