Monday, April 06, 2009

FULL TABLES IN SPAIN, but not where you would want them, like in fancy restaurants. In soup kitchens:
Every day at lunchtime, a pioneering new soup kitchen set up in the Madrid suburb of Mostoles specifically aimed at feeding the swelling ranks of Spain's unemployed fills up to capacity.

Unlike soup kitchens that target the homeless, those who flock to the canteen each day are not made to wait in line outside to get in so as to avoid curious glances from others out running errands or making their way to work.