So Eddie goes to Spain as a tourist for his vacation, with grand plans of seeing the bull-fights, going to the Alhambra, and seeing some of the famous architecture.
On one of his first days in Barcelona, he goes to El Plaza De Toros, to see a bullfight. He is swept up in the obscene madness of the crowd and has a fantastic time. He's buzzing so much from the fight he's seen that he decides to have dinner in the little restaurant attached to the side of the bull arena.
His Spanish is not as fantastic as it might be, so he is wrestling with the menu for a good long time trying to decipher it and decide what he wants to eat, when a big fanfare erupts from the kitchen. A parade of waiters clinking bottles and singing is followed by a few kitchen staff carrying a large platter of food, pasta dumplings with rich fennel sausage, roasted tomatoes and capers in a creamy sauce, topped with two baseball-sized meatballs. It looks and smells fantastic. The parade deposits the magnificent looking dish at a nearby table, finishes their song, and then retreats to their responsibilities while the couple at the table rhapsodizes about the fantastic food that they are now ingesting.
Eddie signals his waiter and says "I'd like to have that dish over there, but I don't see it on the menu," to which his waiter replies, "Oh especialle de casa! Mui excellente choice senor, but unfortunate to say, of those I have only one a day."
Eddie's face is incredulous, and disappointed, so the waiter placates him saying "if you will return tomorrow, you may have the especialle. Come at seven and I will serve you."
Eddie spends the next day going to museums and seeing churches and public buildings built before the reformation, but all day is thinking about his dinner at the bull-fighting ring cafe.
Finally, evening rolls around and Eddie returns to the restaurant. The waiter pours him a glass of Spanish wine and seats him at a very nice table near the street.
Before long, the anticipated fanfare starts in the kitchen again, and the waiters and kitchen staff parade to Eddie's table, singing and clinking glasses and bottles, carrying the large platter with them, but when they set the platter down on the table, Eddie notices immediately that while the rest of the dish is the same - dumplings, sausage, capers, cream sauce - the meatballs are only the size of small bird eggs. He decides not to make a big deal out of it and tucks right in to his dinner, and it is magnificent as he expected it to be.
As he is just finishing his dessert and a glass of port, his waiter returns to the table with the bill, and asks "Was everything to your satisfaction, senor?" to which Eddie replies "well, yeah... but I have one question: yesterday, the meatballs on this dish were the size of baseballs, but today, they were much smaller, why?"
The waiter blushes a little and says "Oh yes, sir. Well it is very rare you see, but every once in a while *the bull wins...*"
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