Unos frescos
Sin atún
While I didn´t expect it to be good, I didn´t expect it to be quite as bad as it was. While I didn´t expect the contents fully to resemble the glowing picture on the carton, with its large chunks of tuna, I did expect them to bear some resemblance to it.
But the Russian salad, the main ingredient of which should be tuna, was tuna-free, despite the 7% quantity stipulated in the list of ingredients. There were some minute flecks of something vaguely orange in colour but that might´ve been the carrots.
At €3.90 for a 240g packet, this virtually protein-free amalgam of powdered egg, mustard, oil, gum and God knows what, was a complete rip-off.
Argal claim their product is without:
apio
cacahuete
crustáceos
frutos de cáscara
gluten
leche
sal añadida
sésamo
soja
sulfito ni sulfuroso
and, I´d like to add, atún.
The Spaniards describe bare-faced cheek as frescura. The makers and advertisers of this dishonestly-presented salad are unos frescos and I should get my money back.
About Mo
Spain and convenience food go together like Peas and custard. I’m surprised you didn’t already know that.
I do! You´d never find one of those packety things in my fridge! So it was really my fault for fancying a salad in a service station, and especially a few hours after the lovely bitten by Spain, Deborah Fletcher, made us a beautiful salmon and scrambled eggs breakfast. I should´ve known better, especially since on the way down to Murcia at the same service station the “bocadillo de jamón serrano” was just bread and ham – no oil, butter, rubbed-in tomato, mayonnaise or “glue” of any kind. From now on it´s the peasant lunch for me, and I´ll make it myself.
I do love your sense of homour. More often than not I miss it in my fellow men.
By the way, you could say in Spanish that this brand: “tiene mucha cara”, “tiene mucha jeta” (“jeta” is like “face” but with a derogativ meaning), “tiene más cara que espalda” (weird comparation, I know) “tiene una cara que se la pisa” (Spanish exaggeration, you know), “es un carota”. In all the cases, you could tap your cheek two o three time, inclining gently your head.
I´m doing it at this precise moment, which makes typing a bit difficult!