Okay. This website swears that these little figurines are part of a Catalonian tradition concerning a certain bodily function. All I can say is, I have met people who hailed from that part of Spain and I don't remember this subject coming up. Catalàn is a fascinating language, by the way. Yeah, concentrate on the language...
(Via Jerry Kindall.)
Posted by Andrea Harris at January 6, 2003 12:08 AMThere was an article about this in the S.F. Chronicle a year ago. A guy from a Catholic organization tried to have them taken out from a food exhibition in Napa. All he did was make more people aware of them than before he opened his big yap, which is what happens in America these days. Here's a reference: link
Posted by: Frank C at January 7, 2003 at 01:52 AM