Probably a decade ago I'd heard of yerba mate, so I got myself a gourd, a bombilla and a big ol' sack of the stuff. Honestly, I wasn't impressed: it's not as r

Probably a decade ago I'd heard of yerba mate, so I got myself a gourd, a bombilla and a big ol' sack of the stuff. Honestly, I wasn't impressed: it's not as refined as tea and not as interesting as coffee and frankly the bombilla doesn't do a great job of filtering the leaves out. I've since had other mates (on the theory that perhaps the stuff I bought was low-grade), and so far as I can tell there's no real reason to prefer it over other caffeine sources: it's just a trendy/fashionable thing to do. And really, how trendy can it be if I knew about it so long ago?