On 8-7-2015 15:27, Stephen wrote:
> On 7/8/2015 12:21 PM, Thomas de Groot wrote:
>> 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 ;-)
>>
>
> Embarrassment, most likely. ;-)
>

No doubt, no doubt...

-- 
Thomas

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