If you are already in Argentina, surely you have tasted our facturas: those sweet little cakes we eat for breakfast or in the afternoon. There are many kinds of facturas and each of them has its particular name: medialunas, sacramentos, cañoncitos, vigilantes…
What is the origin of these strange names? At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, the baker’s labor union was (as most of the working movement of that period in Argentina) anarchist, so they gave name to facturas with sacrilegious and mocking references to their enemy institutions, the Catholic Church and the Army.
Bolas de fraile (“friar balls”), suspiros de monja (“nun sighs”), sacramentos and cañoncitos (“little cannons”) are linguistic traces of that political struggle.
A BANNER OF THE BAKER'S LABOR UNION IN A WORKER'S DEMONSTRATION
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