A restaurant trick of the past was to play with the size of the plates so that the customer lived convinced that he had more teak than what he had actually been served. Some stratagems are more or less cute, but the size of the coffee cups served in hotels should be specified in the Penal Code.
Today the arrangement is very common in the food industry, which often expands packaging so that a meager portion of cream can pass for a complete dessert. Choosing the continent with tact is the most obvious way to show off the content, as we know since we wanted the skins to be beautiful in addition to saving us from the glaciation.
King Felipe II was trending this weekend without having come back to life because that is the name of the Madrid avenue chosen by the Popular Party to gather the embattled opponents of an investiture and amnesty that are still virtual.
The PP’s eagerness to sign a plenum at yesterday’s event was efficient, and the aerial photos of the square seemed to rival the gigantic demonstrations of March 8, 2018 and 2019, even if strictly speaking the latter concentrated about twenty times more demonstrators.
The reason is the small size of Avinguda de Felip II, which triangulates Alcalá and Narváez in a single island, and of Salvador Dalí Square, where it ends. Both tend to be full to overflowing when a WiZink Center concert that has posted a no-tickets sign ends. In round numbers, this means that with less than 15,000 souls, the esplanade already seems difficult to traverse.
Officially, the PP gave a figure that may be exaggerated but not far-fetched – 45,000 attendees – although on the social network previously known as Twitter, where we all have a penchant for hyperbole, the party’s official account claimed to have “brought together more people than any other political act in democracy”. Why use a big brush when there are painter’s rollers.
The act, in any case, served to ensure that the candidate for the investiture was successfully accompanied by his people – even if, as is customary in Madrid, including the balcony of Genoa, the most victorious was once again the president of the community, Isabel Díaz Ayuso – a few hours from the very likely failure of his bid for the presidency.
One thing and the other, the success of the first and the defeat of the second, have an obvious relationship with the dedication that Feijóo has given to both matters these weeks, so it must be assumed that it is a balance that he was counting on.
For now, avoiding the dinner plate of the Castellana and choosing the dessert plate of Felipe II, he has shown that he understood what Carlos Faemino meant when, faced with a meager portion served in a generous ceramic airport, he exclaimed, running over the syntax : “You put food here until the bottom of the plate drawing is visible! Or the other way around.”
