Lisa & Russell: I Sort of Tried My Spanish Out

Russell went out for a Spanish meal over the weekend, he regaled Lisa with his experience. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
So we're trying something brand new before we get to
the end of the year. Lisa is learning golf. I
am learning how to speak Spanish. And I had a
birthday last month and the team here, the breakfast team,
got together and bought a voucher for myself and my
wife to go, you know, as part of the Spanish experience,

(00:23):
to go to a South American restaurant, which we did
finally here. We cashed it in on Saturday night at
Condor Restaurant. It was Cambridge Street in Wembley, which I've
got to say was delicious, Such a nice little restaurant too.
What did I have? Well, I sort of tried my

(00:44):
Spanish out there, but not really. The lady who welcomed
us I could tell that there was some Spanish or
some Latin in her background, but the girl who was
coming to take a order, I wasn't so sure. I
just said jacksonmena, would you love and not very Spanish.

(01:06):
But what I did do was I tried to make
sure that what I picked from the menu was Spanish sounding,
so you know, we had a We shared an entree pinchoscane.
I could have gone for the chicken bites, but no,
I went for the pinchosane, which is meat skewers, but
when I put it into the translation machine, one letter

(01:27):
in the wrong spot makes a huge difference. So Pincho
meat skewers came up as meat pigeons.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Meat pigeons.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Oh no, and retype that in meat skewers. Now, I'll
go with that. And Bolivian spices. I love that. And
I had for a Maine.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
I had kick out knock, a spicy pigeon and doing
him dried one.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
I don't remember it being a particular dish down there,
but anyway, maybe it is in some regions. I had
loml which is Spanish for tenderloin of the mains, which
was just melting the mouth, absolutely beautiful. Cash Peterson, don't
bother going there seriously or any of your devotees. It's

(02:10):
just not your kind of restaurant.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Do you remember we used to go to a restaurant
down south when we did some work. When we used
to work over at the other joint. Some listeners for
an outside broadcast an overnight.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Have a big, big particular venue. Yes, there was.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Their menu had a spell I had, you remember, I
had an error on it on the menu, and instead
of tenderloins, you could order the turtle OIDs.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
I do remember, and I was twenty years ago. I
still remember.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Also, we used to go back there year after year,
and none of us ever told the restaurant listen, you've
written turtle OIDs instead of tenderloins, because we wanted to
see how long it would take. And it never did
change change. It was always turtaloids.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Well, it was a particular you didn't.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Have it with Homo's instead of illness.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
It was a particular dish to that region of the Southwest.
I mean, don't knock it, which that might have been.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
So you had tends, not.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Tenderloin normal, and someone had bondiola, which is pork shoulder,
which was also absolutely amazing. I did. I do love
a shoulder.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
From a pigeon.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
Shoulder specially one that's been cooked for a long time
just falls. Nothing like a shoulder that just falls apart,
unless it's your own. I did look one disappointment. I
got to say. I did try to get a Seveassis
pseudo Americadas South American beer. Okay, but I had a
choice of you know, like Guinness, Sidetrack, Feral no kilmes

(03:55):
from Argentina, no Pacific, Pacific go from not even a
car from Corona. So I was a little disappointed anyway,
And you know, I just had it Ensulada the Racula,
which is a rocket Salem. So I did my best
to at least go Spanish off the menu as much
as possible. But I didn't. I didn't. I didn't get

(04:16):
into any Spanish conversation, not with Sharon anyway.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
I don't think she was up for it, but can
I just Saturday night, Sharon was busy to everybody here,
Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
I really enjoyed it, and I almost well. I used
all of the voucher and I had to tip in
sixteen bucks of my own. Shouldn't have had that servesa