On 8-7-2015 10:14, Stephen wrote:
> On 7/8/2015 8:34 AM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>>> Was there ever a craze for drinking wine using a porron, in the
>>> Netherlands?
>>> There was one in the UK when cheap flights to Spain became available in
>>> the 60s/70s (no apostrophe)
>>>
>>
>> I am not sure. I do not really remember but I suppose there was, at
>> least in some Spanish restaurants which started round that time. I did
>> fieldwork in South Spain in the early 70s, but they were not in use in
>> the rural areas where I dwelt.
>
> They are from Catalan. And seas of them came back from the Costa Blanca
> with the first wave of tourists.
>

Ah yes, indeed. Somehow it passed me by and I don't remember ;-)

-- 
Thomas

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