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Hello,
once again, a bit of history. And this time about something so quintessential of Granada as tapas are. In Granada (or "Graná" with the stroke in the last "a" as the name of the city is pronounced by her inhabitants) the tradition of "going tapas" is almost a religion for some of us. And they are free, ahhahaha.
Anyway, the historians tell us that this tradition started during the domain of the king Alfonso X The Wise: he imposed to the population to have a little amount of food with the wine as a incentive to carry on working after it and sustain them until the main meal. Such portion used to be a slice of sausague covering the top of the container in order to avoid contamination or insect to fall inside (that is the reason for the word "tapa" which in english means stopper/tape/lid)
Much as changed since and the tapas in my city are something quite different and a lot more enjoyable as you can appreciate by the photo ;-)
