Lulu Lucia once had a bunch of us over to drink yerba mate ("sherba mat-tay"), a traditional hot drink for health and friendship - basically a strong tea kept in a gourd and drunk communally through a straining straw. The first batch was soooooooooooooooo bitter, and reminded me kind of like... drinking from a leaf clogged drain pipe, ahaha, eeeew. But yeah, I never really got accustomed to it., jee jee. |