In the coffee houses of Lvov, optimistic Galician intellectuals see all this as a backhanded compliment.
In the festival itself, the drama highlight was work by Ramon del Valle-Inclan, a Spanish, or more precisely Galician, dramatist who died in 1936.
For Catalan, read Galician or Basque or whatever: when the Basque government was recently renegotiating its financial accord with the centre, a similar demand almost killed the deal.
After all, the authors point out, most people in Spain's minority regions see themselves as both Spanish and Basque (or Catalan or Galician) not just one or the other.
In addition to the environmental costs, Spain is counting the cost to its fishing fleet, a vital part of the Galician economy, and to the tourist industry in the region.
He gives us a fascinating journal of his Galician wanderings, from village carnivals in the pouring rain to a hippy commune in the back of beyond via the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.
Galicia is Mr Zapatero's biggest loss to the PP in the five years since he became prime minister, and is thus a significant boost to the PP's embattled leader, Mariano Rajoy, himself a Galician.
In 2003 the same Australian trade group tied Pacific Andes to several deep-sea fishing vessel owners from Spain, known as the Galician syndicate, and accused the company of helping process and distribute illegally caught toothfish.
But Mary-Lou Galician, head of media analysis and criticism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University and editor of The Handbook of Product Placement in the Mass Media, is not so sure its working.
The ambition persists despite marriage to the long-suffering Susana, perhaps the only Galician vegetarian, despite the menace of cholesterol from all those fat-laden pork sausages and despite the threat (kindly pointed out by Susana) that eating pig brain will lead to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
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