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oh man, maté is so good. tastes like green tea mixed with tobacco. and energy is far more sustained. I've been making it in a french press lately. I do miss th

oh man, maté is so good. tastes like green tea mixed with tobacco. and energy is far more sustained. I've been making it in a french press lately. I do miss the mouthfeel of milk foam when I don't have an espresso-based drink once in a while.

ankaAr 4y ago
Try to have it as the original way, sipping from the metal straw in the container (the mate.., same name) serving one at the time. Tip: add a filter to avoid the little leaves pieces. It helps you to avoid eat a lot while you are working on the computer. https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20120405-drinking-mate-in-buenos-aires https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20120405-drinking-mate-in...
pantalaimon 4y ago
It’s also a popular fizzy soft drink. There is nothing better than a cold bottle of Mate in the morning.
- ankaAr 4y ago
  Angry tradition noise Jokes aside, I don't like it, but it is really popular in Paraguay and northern provinces from Argentina. It is called tereré. They even use orange juice or other things with the mate leaves... Angry tradition noise again :v
  - BenjiWiebe 4y ago
    My cousin who spent some time in Paraguay did terere the way she learned there. It wasn't fizzy though. It was made in one cup with a steel straw/strainer combination, and you'd pour ice cold water on it. Then you'd drink it all (with leaves+strainer the cup didn't hold much), then pass it on to the next person. Everyone drank from the same cup/straw. And you'd use the leaves for many drinks before replacing them. There was a lot of leaves for the amount of liquid. And you wouldn't let it steep at all either. Fill, drink, pass it on, repeat. I really liked it.
  - jamal-kumar 4y ago
    Nah they're referring to Club Mate, a German yerba mate based soda which I am a fan of. Very popular out that way from what I have been told. I like the pink one
    - pantalaimon 4y ago
      There is more than Club Mate now, in the last decades a large variety of Mate brands have entered the market, many also vanished again. Club Mates largest competitor is probably Mio Mio Mate, while generally the cheaper alternative, their Ginger Mate really adds a new twist. There are of course many small regional Mate breweries which often lean more on the tea flavor side. I really liked Lux Mate, which added Mint to the mix, but it appears to no longer exist.
      - jamal-kumar 4y ago
        That sounds good I was making mint yerba mate when I got a big bag of cruz de malta one time and it was great, but fizzy sounds even better heh The only thing I didn't like about these drinks is the amount of sugar, it's kinda high

ankaAr 4y ago

Try to have it as the original way, sipping from the metal straw in the container (the mate.., same name) serving one at the time. Tip: add a filter to avoid the little leaves pieces. It helps you to avoid eat a lot while you are working on the computer. https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20120405-drinking-mate-in-buenos-aires https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20120405-drinking-mate-in...

pantalaimon 4y ago

It’s also a popular fizzy soft drink. There is nothing better than a cold bottle of Mate in the morning.

ankaAr 4y ago
Angry tradition noise Jokes aside, I don't like it, but it is really popular in Paraguay and northern provinces from Argentina. It is called tereré. They even use orange juice or other things with the mate leaves... Angry tradition noise again :v
- BenjiWiebe 4y ago
  My cousin who spent some time in Paraguay did terere the way she learned there. It wasn't fizzy though. It was made in one cup with a steel straw/strainer combination, and you'd pour ice cold water on it. Then you'd drink it all (with leaves+strainer the cup didn't hold much), then pass it on to the next person. Everyone drank from the same cup/straw. And you'd use the leaves for many drinks before replacing them. There was a lot of leaves for the amount of liquid. And you wouldn't let it steep at all either. Fill, drink, pass it on, repeat. I really liked it.
- jamal-kumar 4y ago
  Nah they're referring to Club Mate, a German yerba mate based soda which I am a fan of. Very popular out that way from what I have been told. I like the pink one
  - pantalaimon 4y ago
    There is more than Club Mate now, in the last decades a large variety of Mate brands have entered the market, many also vanished again. Club Mates largest competitor is probably Mio Mio Mate, while generally the cheaper alternative, their Ginger Mate really adds a new twist. There are of course many small regional Mate breweries which often lean more on the tea flavor side. I really liked Lux Mate, which added Mint to the mix, but it appears to no longer exist.
    - jamal-kumar 4y ago
      That sounds good I was making mint yerba mate when I got a big bag of cruz de malta one time and it was great, but fizzy sounds even better heh The only thing I didn't like about these drinks is the amount of sugar, it's kinda high