pinchos y pulgas

English translation: little /snack-sized portions and mini filled rolls

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Spanish term or phrase:	pinchos y pulgas
English translation:	little /snack-sized portions and mini filled rolls
Entered by:	Clifford Schisler

18:55 Mar 11, 2011

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Cooking / Culinary / On menu in Spain

Spanish term or phrase: pinchos y pulgas

On a menu of a seaside restaurant in Spain. I particularly have a problem with pulgas... I get this itching... to know what it means...

thanks

For UK English

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little /snack-sized portions and mini filled rolls

Explanation:
Pincho = tapa = aperitivo in Spanish usage, but remember, this is not what is sold as a tapa in "Tapas Bars" in the UK, where they give you what we would call a rather meagre (but pricey) ración in Castilla y León.

Pulga or pulguita

Wish there was a snappier way of saying this.

Selected response from:

Noni Gilbert Riley
Spain
Local time: 13:13

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little /snack-sized portions and mini filled rolls

Noni Gilbert Riley

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pinchos y pulgas

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little /snack-sized portions and mini filled rolls

Noni Gilbert Riley
Spain
Local time: 13:13
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Thanks for your help! Very much appreciated!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

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Anne Smith Campbell: I'm adding a web page, where the 'pulgas' are referred to as 'tiny meat-filled rolls' http://www.europeupclose.com/article/toledo-spain-a-world-he... As for 'pincho' or 'tapa' it is just a snack portion of whatever...

2 hrs

-> Thank you Anne. Pulgas quite commonly have a tuna based filling...!

agree

elena ry: Pulgas pueden tener de todo, suele depender de la zona.

14 hrs

-> Thanks Elena

agree

neilmac: English uses "tapa/s" now... I imagine fewer folk have heard "pinchos".

23 hrs

-> Yes, and it wd confuse the issue, despite the fact that I wd rarely use the word tapa here in C y L! Thanks Neil

agree

Penelope Ausejo: For us, pulgas means tiny sandwiches (baguette type bread)

1325 days

-> Thanks Penelope!

Reference comments

7 mins peer agreement (net): +4

Reference: pinchos y pulgas

Reference information:
tapas vocabulary list in the ref

Reference: http://www.donquijote.org/culture/spain/food/tapas.asp

Travelin Ann
Native speaker of: English

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Asker: Thanks for your ref page, a very insightful page indeed!

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