#thestoryofyerbamate

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#Syrian people have been migrating to #Argentina for well over 150 years 🇦🇷 long enough in fact to have made #yerbamate our own, sipping it as frequently & judiciously from traditional gourds (though ours are usually smaller) as one would back “home” in the Southern Hemisphere. 🧉 We even have our own #bombilla brands (we call them “massassat” & they’re also smaller) with unofficial #Messi sponsorships in typical Syrian bootleg fashion. 😘 Ours are usually served with a little lemon slice on the side to sanitize them between drinkers as hygiene tends to reach OCD levels in #Shami homes — though in the era of pandemics this surely isn’t something to scoff about anymore mi gente. 🍋 It’s believed that at the height of the civil war in #Syria we still managed to import over 20,000 tons of yerba mate into the country. 🌿 Ayo @thanksjoey we might just have to hit them with #TheStoryOfYerbaMate on the next album mi hermano. 🪬 #Sinsyrianly — #OmarOffendum. https://www.instagram.com/p/CmWqBN6uRMw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=