"mate"-ing in Argentina
 

I have to share this funny typo with you guys.
When I was surfing the net for information about the Perito Moreno glacier, I came across a description of guides who will take you to the glacier and wait for you during the mini-trek. The article said that while they are waiting, the guides "drink, mate and sleep."
Ah, what a difference a single comma can make!

oops - I forgot to mention, for those of you who don't know, that "mate" is a strong, bitter tea that is popular in Patagonia (and throughout Argentina).

good one...mate has an accent, too, no? :)

Yes, but I can't figure out how to inflections on my computer!

"Mate" (the drink) does NOT have an accent. "Maté" would be the past tense of "matar" (to kill).

Despite the niggly details about punctuation, the original post was pretty hysterical. Thanks for brightening up my day!

Very funny. I saw several good looking Argentinians in BA that I would be happy to "mate" with!!!

We had <i>mate de coca</i>, a coca based drink for altitude sickness, in Peru.

You could have mate and then mate with your mate. ;;)

Right, mate!

As an off-topic aside, I was informed by email that in order to authorize a third party to pick up my Olympic tickets, I had to FAKE a copy of my passport...this from a government agency!
:)

Hi, SharonG!

Did you try mate when you were in BA?

Do you know everybody sips from the same &quot;bombilla&quot; (a sort of metal straw)?

Well, yeah, in Argentina everyone drinks from the same straw....but the mate is Yerba mate not Coca mate....and while everyone mates together...not everyone shares the same mate, in Argentina or Peru :)

He's back!!! And with &quot;juego de palabras&quot; included!!!!

one must indeed look around the room before joining in on a round of mate. there are some days that you just know you don't want to be sharing a communal straw with the others present. that said, I like mate a lot and we drink it regularly around the house here.

No I didn't try mate when I was there. Too busy drinking the wonderful red wine and eating Havana cookies and chocolates!!!!

I thought you probably had not tried it. I hate it, including the communal straw part.