• حمید پیام عباسی@crazypeople.onlineOP
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    22 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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      22 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.

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          1 hour ago

          it’s a completely different taste than tea, but yeah, it definitely has a smoked taste to it. please do, make sure you have the bombilla and the mate!

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      22 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

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        21 hours ago

        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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          20 hours 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