Origins of “No hay pan para tanto chorizo”

50s Madrid?

Power and pork: Boschi Fratelli salami ad in Parma.

Power and pork: Boschi Fratelli salami ad in Parma. Image: Trevor.

I thought it was from the Argentine crash a decade ago, but “Ojalá un día no haya pan para tanto ‘chorizo'” turns up in Glorierías: para que os enteréis, a posthumous anthology by Gloria Fuertes, and judging from GB’s snippet view it’s contemporaneous with the 1950s Madrilenian meme, “Si se quemase el Museo del Prado [qué salvarías],” to which Salvador Dalí is said to have replied, “The fire.” Any earlier/foreign sightings?

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