We have mentioned that Spain so far is all about ham.  In fact, it’s so much about ham that it’s hard to get any other kind of meat.  Chicken sausages, for example, seem to be 50% pork.  Also, it’s all about HAM, and all other forms of pork, while superior to other types of meat, are still inferior to ham.  It’s hard to find American-style bacon, for example, and the brand we did finally find in the supermarket was good old familiar Oscar Meyer.

We wondered what this might do to hamburgers.  Our Burger King experience in Australia proved that all fast-food burgers are not made equal.  In Australia, the meat is about 50% mutton.  Would that make burger meat here 50% ground ham?

Why yes, yes it would.

After a hard-hitting day sightseeing Segovia, Terran and I decided to have a convenient dinner at a cafe across the street from the train station.  The menu appeared to be a weird mix of American-looking food, mostly featuring hamburgers and tex-mex.   So we ordered bacon cheeseburgers.

What we were served was a ground ham patty with some beef in it, topped with Canadian bacon (read: ham).  Would you like some ham with your ham?  Apparently, if you’re Spanish, you would.

The HAMburger wasn’t too bad.  But next time I’ll know not to order the ham, er bacon.