Sounds perfect. I'm surprised that yerba mate isn't more popular
elsewhere - perhaps the feral yuppies could take it up as a fashion
drink so that Starbucks could start selling mate latte - pointlessly
weak of course.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 25/05/2006, at 1:28 AM, Fernando Gonzalez Gentile wrote:
> on 24/05/2006 10:43, Andrew Fildes at afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, wrote:
>
>> I'm considering setting up a Walt bag - something that looks so
>> crappy that no-one will steal it from the truck.
> Well I've been practising this for a while.
> Here in the Río de la Plata region, including southern Brazil, it's
> very
> common to drink a kind of tea ('yerba mate') directly from a wooden
> cup
> using a 'bombiya' (see Mike's site for a picture of this item) and
> hot water
> is kept in a thermic isoñated bottle. The whole set is often
> carrried in a
> real leather tall bag. That's a most common bag to see here. Since
> I don't
> drink mate anymore, my crappy 'matera' carries part of my OMs. -
> hey the BG2
> and the bean bag fit pefectly inside ;^)
>
> Fernando.
>
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