Every good Catalan needs to dedicate himself to an unavoidable activity during these dates: the calçotada. Every good Catalan, if he can, will teach his foreign friends this curious and unique way of eating bonsaied spring onions, unique, earthly and heavenly. Every good Catalan will have more than one calçotada. The one at work, the one with his football friends, the one with his walking group, the one with his parents at school... If he wants to be a good premium Catalan, he will be the one to organize it. A bad Catalan diverts the calçotada (just as he diverts the tió to hug Santa Claus).
In these circumstances, the Catalan who aspires to be a good Catalan and who has no social life, has it very difficult. You cannot make a calçotada alone, because a calçotada alone is like a company dinner for the self-employed: a fallacy. A calçotada must be made in a group, made titives and the contest of who eats the most, complaining about digestion... For a lonely heart, calling the restaurant and asking for a tile, for one, is a double session with the psychologist.
That's why I'm launching, and taking advantage of the fact that we are a World Region of Gastronomy, an application that I hope will be of service to all of you, and that I offer you selflessly (only if you are Premium subscribers, of course). La CalçoTinder. It's wrong for me to say it, but it's an ideal name. On par with the success it's going to have.
Through this application, la CalçoTinder, all the lonely people will be able to agree to make calçotadas. Match here, if you want to go to Valls, encuentro there if you want to go to Sitges... Matx further away if you dare to make it at home. Singles, married, divorced, young and old will form CalçoTinder gangs, and they can be like all of us, good Catalans. They will criticize the gloves, they will criticize or not the sauce and they will say that they cannot do it with meat. A kind of "love boat", but Catalan. Because it is evident that with CalçoTinder, with black hands and cebatic breath, love will emerge, an unbreakable love as is this curious and unrepeatable Catalan activity.
