Post on 13-Jun-2015
Argentina‘s
obsession
on the
South
America
n
continen
t
there is
a
country
called…
in this country you can find
almost every climate zone
it‘s the land of and
Tango, Che Guevara.
Gauchos
and like every nation,
the Argentineans
have their quirks.
Matethis is sort of Argentina's basis eatables:
Matethis is sort of Argentina's basis eatables:
but what makes
this plant so
special for the
Argentineans?
everyone drinks it.
the young ones do it
as well as the older ones.
everywhere.
Che Guevara
did of course.
and apparently
even Einstein.
yearly per-capita consumption is 6.4 kg.
80 % of the population drinks it at least once a week.
stimulating,
it acts
promotes health
reduces appetite.and
and where does this all come from?
an old legend says...
one day the
Goddesses of
the Moon and
the Cloud came
to the land of
the native
Guaranís to visit
them.
but there they
found a jaguar that
was going to attack
them.
An old man saved them and in
compensation received a new kind of
plant, from which he could prepare a
"drink of friendship".
drinking it has its own set of rules
and you mostly do it in society.
living in Argentina and not sharing this habit will probably never give you the feeling of total acceptance.