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And if Argentina is like Brazil, never ever hold the straw with your hand. Only your lips should touch it.

• pilaf 12y ago
  Simply touching it is no big deal (in Argentina at least), but god forbid you stir the yerba, then you're in deep trouble.
  • dguaraglia 12y ago
    Brazil's "chimarrão" (as they call the mate) is prepared pretty differently than we do in Argentina, and the customs are a bit different. They use way more yerba, a much bigger gourd and it's not as social (at least in Santa Catarina I very rarely saw people sharing the gourd.)
    • sanoli 12y ago
      There's also "tereré", which is like "chimarrão", but it is infused and consumed with cold water instead of hot.
  • BrainInAJar 12y ago
    well that's because it makes all the powdery crap sink to the bottom instead of the big chunks acting like a filter Paraguayans (at least the Mennonite colonists) don't have a problem with touching the bombillia either