Yerba Mate
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- VanDerFull
Anyone else here into yerba mate?
Tried it few months back, and have now stopped drinking coffee, since this stuff is not only as potent as coffee (without the negative effects), it's also healthier than green tea... Just lovely...
Pretty suprised it hasn't hit the mainstream outside of South America...
- ********0
Tried it, not as tasty as coffee... i have a whole bag of it, i need to get back to it.
- Salarrue0
Terere, is warm now in Canada
- Knuckleberry0
I actually just ran out need to pick up some more this weekend.
- monospaced0
Kinda tastes like dirt.
- for the weak gringosSalarrue
- that's because we don't eat dirt on a regular basis, I guessmonospaced
- hahahha you wishSalarrue
- it was a joke, dude, but when I drank it for awhile it really did kinda taste like dirty teamonospaced
- ideaist0
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Which should I try?
- lemon oneSalarrue
- I'd go for the Tangerine one if you're trying for the first time, might ease you into it...VanDerFull
- just get the normal one********
- sublocked0
Yeah I used to fuck with it heavy. Teavana has some good mate teas. I read somewhere though that it messes your system up long-term. No clue if that's true or not.
- ********0
I like it a lot - completely forgot about it .. remember it being quite moreish.
To drink it properly, one thing you need is a special cup with a metal straw ..
- maquito0
I'm from uruguay. Mate is some kind of a religion here. I drink it everyday. Like english tea, yerba mate comes in many kinds and flavours. I prefer mild ones, low in matteine (sort of caffeine).
Here's a family of symbols I designed some time ago. Those are the different objects used to drink the infussion in the traditional way.
- ^maquito
- ..thats the most random thing I've seen all day, well done.mikotondria3
- My favourite brand is Canarias from Uruguay, and Pajarito a close second :)VanDerFull
- Miguex0
yeah in Uruguay & Argentina is everywhere. People go in the bus with one hand on the handle and the other one holding the mate and thermos under the armpit. And is completely normal to share the same mate in a circle of friends, all of them from the same bombilla.
I never got into it to be honest, I had a few sips here and there but not my thing (neither is coffee) but it's crazy to see how popular is becoming in the states, is like the new guarana.
"Try a Yerba Mate, the exotic infusion, used in south america for centuries, believed to have incredible health enhancing powers".
- Miguex0
another drink kinda hip these days is Kombucha
- eeww, i know it is hella good for you, but my mom used to give me this as a kid. the smell kills it for me.sea_sea
- oh god i hate the taste of that shitebigtrickagain
- sea_sea0
i used to drink mate, but in the past few days i´ve been in south america and have had my good dose of coca leaf mate.. yum talk about a picker upper!
- MSTRPLN0
A dude at work had a bag of this with his special cup and metal straw and everyone thought it was some kind of drug paraphernalia.