Ojos Tienen Ma No Ven | Heavyweight T-Shirt

A Ladino proverb, “ojos tienen ma no ven” means “they have eyes but do not see.” For the Jews hiding in plain sight, it was a metaphor for their survival tactics. In parts of Portugal, it was common to hang pork sausage in the window to cure in order to eat through winter. For Jews, not hanging sausages was a tell. So the Jews of Mirandela developed a recipe, now called “alheira,” for a sausage that was mostly bread and chicken, that they could hang in their windows. Hiding in plain sight.