La Pescadera, by Adriaen van Ostade, circa 1660. The tables of the fish from the Spanish squares would be similar
Although at present it has become defined as a butcher, especially in the Spanish of America, and has some other meaning, such as player or carpenter who makes planks, planners is the traditional name given to vendors of various food items in the markets, because they did it in tables or public stands in the plazas plazas or plazas.
In the historical context of the Old Spanish Regime, they were not usually small autonomous merchants, but dependents of those obliged to supply each of the genres in which it was divided, such as meat, fish, bacon, oil and soap, etc. . Its activity in the market was regulated by the municipal legislation (fueros, ordinances) and the contract of obligation of the supply. The daily conflicts, for example the correction of the weight of the merchandise sold, were settled in the institution of Repeso. The situation of legality in which the planners sold was not shared by many other agents of the trade, either regular (the Candelario choriceros or the Fuencarral hueveros), very irregular, like the chalanes or resellers, a situation in which there were many sellers street vendors who precariously placed a drawer in any street, instead of the legal table; Do not confuse them. Bibliography
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