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[oceanhawk]

A few things about Buenos Aires/Argentina

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[ffiferoo]

Your food description reminds me of food touching. Does your food always touch in Argentina?

[oceanhawk]

Always! But seriously, you're right, I feel like that's the perfect way to describe how they cook...it's like constant food touching!

[ankledeepruins]

Do you ever get to cook for them?

[oceanhawk]

I technically could if I wanted to, but I'm scared.

[ankledeepruins]

I think all of those things would go together if they just left out the mayo, and maybe the hardboiled egg. I mean, mayo? Mayo? Maybe you could train your mind to focus on and combine certain flavors. So when you're enjoying your heaping plate of rice mess, you could zone in on the egg and the mayo, and create egg salad. Wouldn't that be nice?

It reminds me a little bit of what some of the Greek restaurants come up with in tourist towns, to try to appeal to the American palate. I had a sandwich in Olympia that had chicken, lettuce, tomato, french fries, ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, and tzatziki on it. And oregano. It's like they thought of all the things an American might put on a sandwich, didn't know what to include, and stuck it all between some pita. And then, because it had to be more Greek, they put on the oregano and the tzatziki. Just to remind you that you're not in America. I should have gone with the xoriatiki.

[oceanhawk]

I think that would actually be an okay sandwich if it didn't involve tzatziki. Don't get me wrong, I love the stuff, but with mayo ketchup AND mustard? Unforgivable.

[ankledeepruins]

You are probably right. It was weirdass tzatziki, too. It had all of these vegetables in it, like cole slaw.

[chewy01234]

Greece ruined Danielle. She confided in me once that if she had to only eat one dish for the rest of her life it'd be a xoriatiki salata.

[full_bloom]

Eeek, I could never eat in Buenos Aires! What an adventure, I guess. I was just talking to someone though about how one way that cultures assimilate new foods is to add their specific cultural sauce, like, salsa in Mexico maybe, and definitely ketchup in the states. Maybe it's mayo and hard boiled eggs in Argentina..?

[oceanhawk]

That's an interesting and probably true theory?

[chewy01234]

first of all: "Banish that thought" made me laugh so hard I almost spit water out.

You never explained salsa gulf! Tell the people!
(I bet someone in the comments already asked about this)

But I'd like to corroborate Danielle's story. Everything she is saying is 100% true. Been there done that.

Remember that time we went to that fancy restaurant and they played a cover song and the then REAL song right after it?

[oceanhawk]

Yes...Stairway to Heaven cover followed by....Stairway to Heaven. GOOD TIMES.

Ah yes, salsa golf...the unholy mixture of mayo and ketchup. Should be so delicious, but they even managed to mess that up. How do you take two things that taste naturally delicious together, package them pre-mixed and then have it be the most disgusting combination ever? What the hell do they do to it? I still haven't figured it out.

[crazylaughboy]

oh south america...
seriously. i hear a rihanna forro (a brazilian dance style/sex) remix every day. along with male covers of songs like toxic in portuguese...hmmm.

i hear you on the food. the one time i mistook the bottle of mayo for mustard...oh man. bad times. turkey-ham is everywhere here. i had corn ice cream yesterday. but it was kind of good. kind of. lots of eggs. i had hard boiled eggs and beer on the beach yesterday, actually. i kind dig it, the whole....put ketchup and olive oil and hot sauce all over your pizza com fork. here tho a basic meal is rice...beans...hot sauce...and farinha. so much farinha.

[oceanhawk]

Corn ice cream...might not be the worst thing ever? I mean, corn is sweet, right? I had wine ice cream here, actually, which was pretty cool. I think the ketchup/olive oil/hot sauce thing sound pretty interesting too. What the hell is farinha? Also, I love capirinhas, if I spelled that right. They are dangerous for my sobriety.

[crazylaughboy]

oh my god capirinhas. dont get me started. hopefully that will be my thanksgiving tonight.

farinha. oh man. the heart of amazonia. i got a chance to make it. you take manioc, and soak it in water for a while to, you know, remove the poison. you then grind it and toast it in basically an enourmous wok. in a casa de farinha. you end up getting...these grain-like yellow stuff that you pour on EVERYTHING to add crunch.

avocado ice cream was also pretty amazing.

[oceanhawk]

I think...perhaps the avocado ice cream is more up my alley? I've tried manioc, and it was pretty okay, I think it's funny that they add it to everything.