If you accidentally cut yourself with a knife, you have to purify it somehow (fire, most obviously, or the blood of a foe) to remove its taste for your blood, or else it will shortly betray you again.
Today at tea our Uruguayan and our Argentinian grad student treated us to traditionally prepared mate, in the Uruguayan (straight up) and Argentinian (with sugar) styles. It was quite tasty
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