"As his Spanish improved, Maugham entered more into the life of the city. He grew a mustache, smoked Filipino cigars, learned the guitar, and bought a broad-brimmed hat with a flat crown; he hankered for a cape lined with green and red velvet, but decided it was too expensive and bought a poncho instead; he went to the theatre and to bullfights, and drank sherry in dark taverns hung with strings of sausages and hams." - The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, Selina Hastings I think it's the "hankering," I can't ever take that word seriously (and on the next page she uses "highfalutin" - sic). Or maybe it's the sausages. Very possibly the sausages.