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Montevideo, de 23.07.2003

Mate.

It will write now times urgently time to something over the Mate. There is more traditional and more pervasive than a drinking of Mate in Uruguay hardly somewhat. He is everywhere drunk, on the road, in the supermarket, before banks, and with sunset at the beach anyway.

There is not the typical Matetrinker in Uruguay, since Mate is really drunk by nearly all humans. But as within all ranges of the life, there is also here star of the industry, the genius under the Matetrinkern. They recognize you completely easily by the thermal can wedged under the arm and the Mategefaess held in the hand. This combination is not released all day long. My personal favorites were on the one hand a man, who tried under large troubles, in-handle a tire at the car to change, on the other hand a man, who in-handles in the bank again tried to restrain a large pile paper. Both lasted seeeeehr for a long time. Why neither of them came on the idea to place the Mate for one second away one cannot explain.

If you (URUGUAY MAGAZINE of all readers duzt from today on and now) by-look shortly in Uruguay, respects nevertheless times exactly drauf, what the people make in such a way everything with their thermal can under the arm. Even authority courses become in such a way an event.

Everywhere, where one comes in Uruguay and one meets acquaintance or gets one becomes acquainted with new humans a Mate offered. He is usually drunk in circle. The Matero, that, which holds the thermal can in the hand, pours a little hot water in the Mate and passes it on to a person. This drinks the Mate by the Bombilla, the strohhalmaehlichen drinking pipe (often from silver), and hands it again back at the Matero, which new water fills in and which Mate hands to the next person in circles. That cannot be done then, until the group dissolves, more there hot water is always so further or to the Mate lavado (washed, i.e. without taste) is.

Mate is gewoehlicherweise after some Materunden "lavado". Now the Matero must change, the position of the Bombilla a little. In addition it "agitates" the Yerba carefully a little. CAUTION, not simply wildly agitate! Observe better firstonce. Alternative one: directly try out and the laughter ertragen!Es is naturally also possible to drink in such a way the Mate for itself alone (, as I make the straight, during I this text write). How one prepares it, I try to describe in the following one:

The equipment (one gets in Germany in each third world shop)

- a thermal can with a small opening, in order to know small quantities water refill

- the Mate : an go out-oiled and dried kuerbisaehnliche fruit of the plant of the same name (Matebaum). There are Mates with or without rack (sometimes one needs nevertheless both hands freely;-)). One can drink however Mate also from a glass.

- the Bombilla : a metallic Strohalm (Bombilla) with a filter at the lower end

those Yerba : the dte, there is which to buy here everywhere

The preparation

Fills the Mate half fully with Yerba. Afterwards you turn the Mate somewhat on the side, until the Yerba is enough to the edge. Now something (caution) onto the Yerba pour cold or lukewarm water, so that this somewhat can before-pour.

Afterwards can their it firstonce to the side place. The longer the Yerba before-pours the better. First of all one prevents by the Vorquellen that one drinks small Yerbastueckchen (bitterly) and secondly that the Yerba "does not burn", if their the late hot water draufschuettet (also bitterly).

Now the water is boiling and fills it into the thermal can, until this is nearly full, the remainder please with cold water fills up. One makes this likewise, so that the Mate "does not burn", and thus not immediately "lavado" (i.e. washed) is. Now you put only the Bombilla into the Mate, if possible on the side, where no (or less) Yerba is. Or you make a hole pure with the Bombilla simply into the Yerba,!

Drink

Something water pours into the Mate, onto the side, where the Bombilla in it-puts. Then can their it drink. Fill up and then again. Drink then....

Mate Lavado

If the Yerba throws no more small vesicles with the Aufgiessen, is the Mate lavado. In order to refurbish it again, one must agitate now the Yerba only somewhat, move and/or as described above, the Bombilla somewhat in your situation. But ask with consideration.

The first time

Before you drink the first times Yerba from your Mate, must you only times your Mate prepare around the bitter materials from the Kuerbis to filter:

- Mategefaess with Yerba fill, hot water (cooking) draufgiessen and one night to pull leave ( not to drink!!!!! )

Tap

Whom the Mate is too bitter, which can also each time give before the Aufgiessen something sugars on the Yerba.