Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Festive!

"But in Cataluña there's a surprising addition to the crib: el caganer, which means, for want of a more offensive translation, the defecating shepherd. What's more, this scatological streak extends to a peculiarly-shaped local cake, la tifa, with sugar flies to top it all off."

Nothing honors the coming of the King of Kings quite like dropping the duece.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I shared with my students. Unsurprisingly, the girls were mostly nausiated and the boys enthralled.