Tastes, Sounds & Smells

As scratch and sniff blogs have yet to be invented with the help of my amazing discriptive powers and your wild imagination i´m going to try and help conjure up the sights, sounds and smells of Argentina for all you armchair/desktop voyagers out there.

First though we need to set the scene so pop open a new browser and find some Gotan Project out there on the web or click here and search them out.

Next you need to get yourself 3 tins of condensed milk, 2 jars of caramel and 1.5kg of sugar. Mix throughly and ´hola!´ you´ve just made Dolche du Leche, the nation´s favourite food. Spread throughly on everything you eat, squeeze it into sandwichs, bake it into cakes and mix it into drinks at every opportunity. The quantity outlined above should be sufficient for an adult for about 8 hrs. Mmmmmm feel that sugar rush :-)
So far i´ve managed to pretty much avoid the stuff given that i´d quite like to keep all my teeth and i´m living on a diet of purely ham and cheese sandwichs, about all my backpacker budget will allow.

It would not be fair to describe the Argentian´s as only eating Dulche du Leche (DDL). Meat figures heavily on the agenda with crucified lamb being a firm favourite.
Take 1 lamb, lop its head off (smear head with DDL and eat for breakfast - probably).
Crucify lamb on iron cross and lean it up against a fire. Bingo, dinners ready!



The preferred serving suggestion seems to be as part of a chinese all-you-can-eat buffet which, let me tell you, when you´ve been living on ham and cheese sandwichs is pretty damn good. Washing the whole lot down with a 1 litre bottle of Quillmes, the national brew should set you back no more than Eu4.


Bon app!

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