• ghost_laptop@lemmy.mlM
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    4 hours ago

    for real? you from latam or syria? there was a big syrian migration to argentina and when some returned to their country they took mate with them. i cannot live without mate.

    • حمید پیام عباسی@crazypeople.onlineOP
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      3 hours ago

      I’m from Iran but I worked with an Argentinian for a few years in like 2010 and he refused to drink mate by himself so we used to leave the office and sit outside smoking and drinking mate during breaks and I got hooked. Mi favorito es el Rosamonte, pero voy probando otras cosas. Esta mañana estoy tomando Hierbas Silvestres.

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        2 hours ago

        i’ve started getting into mate by accident recently because they were out of cold brewed coffee; something about it is dramatically more effective at making me productive and the thought of coupling it with a cigarette nicotine buzz feels like overkill to me.

        but now that i know that’s a thing, i’ll probably end up doing it. lol

        • حمید پیام عباسی@crazypeople.onlineOP
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          I quit smoking in 2012 but I never really got a nicotine buzz it was more relaxing for me to smoke than anything. Maybe it just cured nicotine withdrawl. I had smoked from 1998 - 2012 and quit cold turkey and lost my mind for a bit.

          The buzz I got during work was when we’d smoke spliffs haha

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            55 minutes ago

            i use cigarettes and mate to give me a buzz based energy boost when desired, but for you they do the opposite; the human body can be so strange sometimes. lol

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        3 hours ago

        lol, yeah, mate has to be shared! si podes proba estancia la merced, tienen distintas “cepas” de yerba que van de lo mas suave a lo mas amargo. my favourite is barbacuá which has a smoky bitter taste.