Carcamusas

Carcamusas is a culinary specialty of Toledo in Spain and is generally served as a tapa in bars. It is a stew of lean pork in a moderately spicy tomato sauce with peas. Traditionally it arrives in an earthenware casserole, together with potatoes and bread. The origin of the name is unclear. One theory credits the owner of the restaurant Bar Ludena in the middle of the twentieth century, who served the dish to older male customers called carcas and the younger women they considered their muses, or musas, and so the name was formed from the two words.