Porrón - the Spanish drinking vessel

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The Spanish glass drinking vessel, similar in function to the bota, with a narrow pointed spout which in theory directs a spurt of wine into your mouth and often in practice stains your shirt. It probably originates from Catalonia.

George Orwell hated the porrón as this extract from Homage to Catalonia clearly demonstrates (collected from Manual Vasquez Montabán’s superb dictionary of Spanish food)

“We ate at long trestle-tables out of permanently greasy tin pannikins, and drank out of a dreadful thing called a porron. A porron is a sort of glass bottle with a pointed spout from which a thin jet of wine spurts out whenever you tip it up; you can thus drink from a distance, without touching it with your lips, and it can be passed from hand to hand. I went on strike and demanded a drinking-cup as soon as I saw a porrón in use. To my eye the things were altogether too like bed-bottles, especially when they were filled with white wine.”

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