Google Pays Tribute to Doodle Spitting: Why On This Day?

You can often see how Google changes the logo that appears in its search engine with a design dedicated to a holiday, anniversary or birth of a historical or significant figure in the field of science, technology. These drawings are known as doodles and today’s drawings are slightly different from what we are used to seeing. It’s June 12th Google dedicated a doodle to a traditional Malaga dish: skewer.

During the day, those users who visit the main page of the Google search engine in Spain will see that the logo shows a design in which we can see coastal fish spitting on the sand on the beach. This is a real illustration, handmade from clay by Helene Leroux.who also worked on other doodles.

The day chosen by Google to commemorate the spit is not in vain. In fact, the company chose June 12, because on the same day, but since 2006 The City Council of Malaga unveiled a monument to Espeterolocated on Paseo Maritimo de Antonio Machado. The monument, in particular, pays homage to this traditional trade of Malaga, which is highly sacrificed because it is carried out in summer at high temperatures.

Today’s doodle (handmade out of clay!) celebrates the taste of summer, a popular Spanish dish of skewered sardines traditionally roasted over wood fires on the beach. On this day in 2006, the city of Malaga unveiled a statue of Espetero, a man who makes sardine skewers, in honor of the traditional trade.

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What a spit in honor of Google?

We repeat that kebab is a traditional Malaga dish created during 19th century which became very popular during the summer months.

The braid is made up of pierce fish – usually sardines – on a stick to fry later with firewood in the sand on the beach. The rod, traditionally made of wood, is placed on the back of the sardine, at the level of the dorsal fin. Then it is buried in the sand along with a handful of olive wood.

In the process of cooking, it is necessary to take into account the direction of the wind. And the fact is that the fish is placed on the opposite side of the flame so that it does not burn the skin. Cooking takes approximately six minutes (3 minutes on each side).

By the way, I hope comes from the word expect. According to the RAE, this means “to cross meat, poultry, fish, etc. with a skewer or other pointed instrument in order to fry them.”