"Tapas can be practically anything from a chunk of tuna, to a cocktail onion or a skewered olive to meat with sauce served piping hot in a miniature clay dish. They are served day in and day out in every bar and café in Europe. It is so much of the culture that the Spanish invented the “Verve tapear”, which means to go and eat tapas! Tapas keep the people fueled for their long journeys from bar to bar before their midday meal, and in the evening before dinner."