Someone called Shakira writes on a pie for charity watched by Erich Schmitt who I have never met, either
I am indebted to Seat for broadening my knowlege of both popular culture and foreign languages.
World renowned, except to me, songstress Shakira autographed a Leon ‘Pies Descalzos’ for charity at the Geneva motor show.
On the face of it I might have thought the car was named after a Spanish food shop in Wigan. On the other hand I have never tasted Spanish pies. I am not even sure if Spanish cuisine features pies. Perhaps the closest they come is paella, which is not a pie at all but a combination of rice, meats or seafood but never, authentically, seafood and meats.
Similarly I have never been offered a Barcelona pasty or a Seville roll. Almost certainly this will turn out to be an upsetting inaccuracy for some region or other of that fine country. Doubtless I have overlooked the famed Bilbao suet pudding, combining offal products and Atlantic shellfish in a centuries-old Basque separatist sauce and once banned under the Franco regime.
Shakira is not Spanish. She is Columbian and it tuns out that Pies Descalzos means bare feet and is the name of a charitable foundation. Text SEAT to 81161 and for £1 you could win the purple Cupra while helping raise funds devoted to finding and providing opportunities for children who are victims of the violence.
I have also now learnt that Shakira’s European tour, which comes to Wembley on Sunday, is called Oral Fixation after her new album.
I don’t know if this is something to do with dental hygiene or eating pastry.
Seldom a day passes when I don’t praise the miracle of existence and wonder at the fine hand life has dealt me.
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