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Yerba Mate'

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I picked up some at my local Lund's. I plan on making some tomorrow on the good word of Mr. David Biedny.

I'll post my opinions after I've had some. Looking up some serving suggestions tonight.
 
I drink it now and then. It is very good. As far as know it doesn't have any "special effects" on me no more than coffee.
 
I have to stay away from caffeine. Makes my heart pound too much. I used to drink nothing but sodas. Mountain Dew, Dr. Pepper etc. but once in my mid 20s had to change.

These days I drink water (purified not that crap from the sink), Capri Sun, apple juice and occasionally sprite. Oh yeh, and Gin or tequila. That will alter your perception. Might wake up with someone ugly in your bed.
 
You can it buy at most grocery stores around here I think. I used to have some. It tastes different from regular tea, maybe a little nuttier. But as for its affects, I never noticed it feeling any different than the caffeine buzz I get from tea....though technically it is mateine and not caffeine that is the active ingredient in yerba mate I think.
 
I drink it all the time,

Dont drink tea and only drink coffee in the morning. I must say I find it refreshing and invigorating and when I first started drinking it I did feel a bit "giggly" for want of a better word.

Also now that I have been drinking it for some time, I have found I do feel a lot more
cheerful, and would guess that it has a similar effect to "St Johns Wort" for
those of us that suffer with depression.

Mark
 
Thanks for brewing up this thread, Tommy. :)

I discovered mate on my first trip to Argentina. Something like 95% of the population drinks it every day, many sip on it all day long. It's quite something, and as a lifelong tea drinker, the effect of it's "matteine" buzz is quite different than caffeine, more intense and cerebral. It's great stuff.

There's an entire set of social rituals centered around mate - the gourd, the passing around a circle of friends, the water-pouring rules, etc. It's a big deal down in Argentina and Uruguay.

dB
 
I will be brewing some today, got a little sidetracked this morning after finding vandalism on my garage. Funny.

I truly hate teenagers.

Anyway, gangsta wannabes put some dumb shit on my garage, and I get to go out and paint in the cold.

Talk to you all later.
 
Tommy Allison said:
I will be brewing some today, got a little sidetracked this morning after finding vandalism on my garage. Funny.

I truly hate teenagers.

Anyway, gangsta wannabes put some dumb shit on my garage, and I get to go out and paint in the cold.

Talk to you all later.
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could be the way your cooking them ...........

sorry to hear about the grafitti, i hate grafitti with a passion in fact now that i think about it i dont like any italian food much.

painting it over asap is the best thing to do
 
Mike, your strange post made my day. Just got home from the hardware store. Going to go paint before the light is all gone. Then... By night I will hunt these little bastards down.

I am seriously thinking of becoming a costumed vigilante.
 
mike said:
could be the way your cooking them ...........

sorry to hear about the grafitti, i hate grafitti with a passion in fact now that i think about it i dont like any italian food much.

painting it over asap is the best thing to do
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You don't like or love Pizza!? You're not human! Of course I hear American pizza is little like Italian pizza, so, maybe the pizza I know and love is American food?
 
Aaron LeClair said:
You don't like or love Pizza!? You're not human! Of course I hear American pizza is little like Italian pizza, so, maybe the pizza I know and love is American food?
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Like my friend's Italian mother once told me "Italians invented pizza, but Americans perfected it".
She wasn't, however, talking about crap like Dominos!
I've been to Italy. Their pizza isn't bad, it's just different (and kinda boring).

Though I don't know anywhere in America where they make seafood pizza like you can get in Europe. That stuff is goooooooooood.
 
Brian Now said:
Like my friend's Italian mother once told me "Italians invented pizza, but Americans perfected it".
She wasn't, however, talking about crap like Dominos!
I've been to Italy. Their pizza isn't bad, it's just different (and kinda boring).

Though I don't know anywhere in America where they make seafood pizza like you can get in Europe. That stuff is goooooooooood.
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Yeh I saw Gordon Ramsey from Hells Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares put seafood on a pizza before. He's from Europe. Wondered how good it was. I like pizza, and I like sea food generally, would like to try it someday.
 
Cleaned the paint off the garage, did the paint work.

Am NOW getting to settle in and make some Yerba Mate.
 
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