Fried Squid Sandwich

Even before the building of the railroads in nineteenth-century Spain, Madrid made it a priority to get fresh fish and seafood from the coast to the heart of the city in time for the next meal. And since squid was cheap and plentiful, a sandwich overfilled with crispy fried rings became emblematic of a worker’s lunch. Today, it remains an oddly iconic snack for an inland metropolis, but iconic it is.