I am almost out of Argentina, so I should write a bit about the Mate. They love the stuff hear. Basically it is a hot tea that they drink out of a gourd with a metal straw.
Basically, it is drunken in a group. Everyone takes turns drinking from the same Mate(cup). One person has the thermos of hot water and is in charge of refilling the Mate after each person takes there turn.
The mate tastes like green tea , but stronger. Some times they make it Dulce, which is just adding sugar.
You will see people drinking Mate on a hot sunny day and half of the gas stations have mate water vending machines where you put in 10 centavos to fill your thermos. I haven´t taken a bus without people drinking mate on it.
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