(June 11, 2015 at 5:19 am)pocaracas Wrote: Welcome from Portugal!
A few centuries ago, around here, jews were sort of abolished... you either converted to christian or left... or force was applied, or something.
Anyway, thus appeared what we called the "new christians"... who were still jews at heart but tried to behave as christians.
These guys invented a kind of sausage based on meat not from pork, that looked like it was made from pork - the alheira.
My dad says I have some jewish ancestry, because of my syndactyly on the toes of both feet (like the foot in the wiki article).... although, I have never seen any other relation between jews and this condition.
Enjoy your stay.
Thanks again all. Interesting about the sausage and like you, I have never heard anything about syndactyly being something Jewish.