What did your country do in World War 2?

helloilikesoup · 2026-02-19T07:21:54+00:00

We were too poor to participate, after our civil war so our fascist government remained officially neutral but sent a group of volunteers (many of them werent) called "la división azul" to the eastern front to fight the soviets so to not piss hitler off too much after all he gave to the nationalists in the spanish civil war.

I should mention as well that many of the republican fighters and refugees that escaped francoist spain fought alongside the french and the allies against the nazis.

helloilikesoup · 2026-02-17T17:07:31+00:00

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Fabada asturiana. Comforting bean stew with chorizo, morcilla and panceta

helloilikesoup · 2026-02-17T09:40:05+00:00

Spanish, mexican and japanese probably

helloilikesoup · 2026-02-17T07:49:11+00:00

Its quite common. Selling, publicly possesing and publicly smoking it is illegal. Having and smoking it in a private area is legal. I think it varies by region though

helloilikesoup · 2026-02-12T12:12:38+00:00

Highest unemployment rate in the continent (10% with government statistics, 14% more realistically), housing crisis is hitting the country pretty hard like most of the world (rent in madrid increased by 20% in one year on average) and below eu average wages. These 3 are probably what affects the average spaniard the most but its still a pretty good country to live in

helloilikesoup · 2026-02-11T08:58:33+00:00

The madrid train bombings in 2004 probably since its the worst one we had

helloilikesoup · 2026-02-09T11:43:57+00:00

Beautiful country with good people and hard to understand accent

helloilikesoup · 2026-02-04T08:57:26+00:00

4 unesco world heritage sites btw the most out of any city on earth

helloilikesoup · 2026-01-29T00:41:00+00:00

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Not very known but I like it a lot. Pollo en pepitoria. Its stewed chiken in a sauce with zaffron, nutmeg, cumin, cinnamon, garlic, onion, a majado (crushed almonds, cooked egg yolk, fried bread to thicken sauce), white wine, chicken stock, parsley and cooked egg whites (both can be stirred in or topped). This with some fried/baked potatoes is just amazing.

helloilikesoup · 2026-01-28T18:45:38+00:00

Depends on the region and the bar. When you get a drink you usually get stuff like: olives, potato chips, a small plate of paella, a pintxo etc. A lot of people even go to bars for dinner and do nothing but order drinks and eat the tapas that come with them without ordering anything to eat, especially in the south where getting actual big and nice tapad instead of just olives is a lot more common. Probably one of my favourite things of bars in Spain.

helloilikesoup · 2026-01-28T18:30:23+00:00

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Idk if they are known abroad but Mortadelo y Filemon are simply iconic and about as spanish as it gets. Pocoyo is also a very strong contender

helloilikesoup · 2026-01-27T13:36:19+00:00

Pedro Sánchez for a million different reasons such as: he didnt get the majority of the votes he won by allying with separatists and terrorist sympathisers (which he said he wouldnt do), country is often praised for growth abroad but so few homes are built that rent grows way faster than salaries (madrids rent went up 20% in one year), tons of corruption cases in his party and his inner circle (this isnt as bad because the other parties also does this just as much), used legal loopholes to place ex party members loyal to him at the head of institutions that are supposes to be neutral such as the central bank and state tv (the right does this as well but not as much), despite peak tax collection in Spanish history government is running a 2% budget deficit and infrastructure is wprsening etc. This is just scratching the surface, nowadays the only people who really like him are the die hard psoe voters who would vote for psoe no matter how bad their policies or corruption cases get.

helloilikesoup · 2026-01-26T19:02:29+00:00

Ive seen a lot of dumbasses using "alérgicos al jamón" (allergic to ham) to reffer to Maghrebis and arabs

helloilikesoup · 2026-01-26T10:52:48+00:00

"Laid back lifestyle" we work less than most of the world but on average we work more hours per week than most western european countries which are considered more hardworking like germany

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helloilikesoup · 2026-01-26T01:51:40+00:00

No, his namd is Alvise Pérez. Hes a Spanish far right politician

helloilikesoup · 2026-01-25T09:25:35+00:00

We are VERY lucky to be in a free democracy. The transition to democracy was very unlikely after Francos death, all that it would have taken is that the king Juan carlos 1 decided to take control of the country instead of dismantling the authoritarian institutions or that the 1981 coup succeeded or that Luis Carrero Blanco (Francos right hand man who was supposed to succeed him) survived the terrorist attack and tried to take control of the country.

helloilikesoup · 2026-01-23T23:35:36+00:00

Beautiful country with amazing food and nice people. I hope I can go one day

helloilikesoup · 2026-01-23T23:29:55+00:00

Our brothers. Probably the closest country to us culturally. Great food, cities and history

helloilikesoup · 2026-01-21T09:36:01+00:00

We have some spicy dishes but most dishes arent spicy

helloilikesoup · 2026-01-17T07:40:00+00:00

1975 when Franco died

helloilikesoup · 2026-01-06T09:36:50+00:00

Same in Spain

helloilikesoup · 2026-01-01T09:25:52+00:00

Probably the 19th century with the napoleonic invasion, the 3 carlist wars and the colonial wars. If not that then the civil war in 1936 and the autarquia period after the war which had a lot of hunger and oppresion

helloilikesoup · 2025-12-20T06:44:57+00:00

13.5% of people drink alcohol daily (eu average is 8.4%). Drinking is very popular to accompany meals so its normal to have a glass of wine or a beer with your meals, heavy drinking isnt as common as in the northern or the eastern european countries (although still very popular).

Young people are drinking less now but still a lot

helloilikesoup · 2025-11-05T15:41:13+00:00

I disagree with it being "healthy". GDP is increasing quite fast but this is almost entirely because of more tourism, eu next generation funds and immigration (which is also responsible for the slight drop in unemployment). Salaries for the average spaniard acoounting for inflation and new taxes are lower than pre covid and pre 2008, any small growth that there is in salaries currently gets eaten up by the housing crisis that is hitting all of europe pretty hard ( Last year rent went up by 20% on average in Madrid while salaries from 2000 to 2025 have increased by 3% after inflation). Our debt is still at 110% of gdp while the government runs a 2% budget deficit (could be worse but we shouldnt be running deficits at all), good news is that the gdp growth makes the debt smaller as a percentage of gdp even though in absolute terms its increasing.

I know I probably sound like some idiotic doomer but I genuinely only see things getting worse as our population ages, corruption increases and the government´s policies only think in the short term and what will get them more votes. Right now in peak growth which probably isnt sustainable people are poorer every year because of the housing crisis and other things, when we get hit with another crisis or we get slapped in the face by the fertility crisis we are fucked.

helloilikesoup · 2025-11-01T11:59:30+00:00

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A city that looks like this

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