It wasn’t even ten in the morning on April 1st and Simon Hunter had burned the tissue. The British journalist, based in Madrid, posted a photo on Twitter with the following caption in English: “I made a great Spanish omelet this morning, yum.” The thing in the photo may be edible and even delicious, but it’s not a Spanish omelette at all: more like scrambled eggs, sausage, cheese, and peas. As expected, the image and, above all, the fact that Hunter identified it as a “Spanish tortilla” has been garnering all possible attention lately on the little bluebird social network (which Elon Musk has turned into a Dogecoin dog). . And the response of the Spanish tweeters was anything but subtle.

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If you still don’t know, Simon and Mr. T explains it to you: April 1st too April Fool’s Day, April Fool’s Day for Americans and Brits. This British journalist gave Spanish Twitter a joke to remember.

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The news here is not that a journalist from Great Britain put a joke on his Twitter profile with omelettes that would have provided more than a nationalist nightmare, but the ferocity of the response the British received on the social networks of outraged Spaniards: some of them are also very funny; otherwise, a little worrying.

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If there are still restless patriots out there, good old Simon has shown that he not only knows how to make a classic potato omelet, but it turns out pretty well too. Look:

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