I've been trying to find you people a good story down here. Really, I have. I stay out till 6am pretty regularly, and the hardest things I've seen people doing are champagne and coffee. I've gotten a little hopeful when I've seen some twentysomethings urgently sniffling, then I realize that everyone has just caught my cold. The leading contender for anything drug-like is tango, which doesn't really count. But the next runner up is mate, and it lets me share this lovely little image of hollowed out cow hooves with you. I'm dying to bring one of these home to somebody, and can't decide who would be most horrified.
Anyways, MATE! Grassy, coffee-ish, caffeinated tea that people drink out of a hollowed out gourd (or hoof!) through a straw filter. It's wacky. And way more prevalent than standard bagged tea at the grocery store, in about a million flavors. In more adventurous lands, sometimes made with coca leaves. I've been going through waves with mate. While I'm a bona fide caffeine junky, and it doesn't give you the same kind of queasy shaky that a lot of coffee does, I think my mouth has gotten too accustomed to harsh tastes that accompany my caffeine, so I find myself back at coffee. Plus I'm just a sucker for steamed milk. However, I might start drinking my coffee out of a cow hoof for effect.
I've got a week and a half left, so maybe something will crack wide open and I'll be able to break a story for you about the hidden world of Argentine jenkem rings, but until then, I'll probably just be dancing.
but you can find something called "paco", basically crack with rat poison and shattered glass that you smoke out of a can ;/
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