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taste for the exotic. Or, perhaps, one of the
largest institutional achievements related
to the scene, before the Bullipedia: the Egg
Office (Oficina de l’ou) that the Generalitat’s
Propaganda Committee installed at the 508
of the Diagonal.
Although it may seem like a simile of that
famous Ministry of Superfluous Affairs
of Louis XIV, the Egg Office designed a
campaign of unquestionable aesthetic value that the vaunted organic and proximity products of our days could seem a joke,
with the aim that each family could achieve self-sufficiency in eggs and they had not
to rely on creative recipes based on flour
and water to make a sad omelette. Not only
that, it even recommended which species
of hens were more productive. Namely, El
Prat white, Penedesenca, Aperdiuada, Rhode Island black and White Leghorn, in a
display of racial selection very in tune with the times of Mengele and very much in
IN 1937, IT WAS USUAL TO SEE
MERCÈ RODOREDA AND HER
FRIENDS, LIKE DOROTHY PARKER
BRUNCHING AT THE ALGONQUIN
line with the proselytizing of the recovery
of the native critters. The Battle of the egg
was a dismal failure because the population
finished by eating the feed of the chickens,
but the idea was not bad if we take into account that a few years later, as doctor Trueta tells, the British government launched a
similar operation during the London resistance of the Second World War. With
the known success on that occasion. Once again, we were a test bench as with the
bombing of the Aviazione Legionaria on
Barcelona; it would be fair to recall Churchill with a “blood, sweat, tears and eggs”.
At the end, what the historical destiny
could not do due to lack of time -transgress
tradition a little bit- hunger and the desire
to eat positively could. Think about it when
you see a few squid without squid in the garriot on duty, becausethe we bring trompe l
oeils into the blood almost without wanting
to. And forty years are nothing.