Chimarrão is a traditional drink we have in South America. You may know it already. It bonds people together. At first, that would happend around the fire, then around the wood cooker at the kichen. So, from ouside to indoors (tent or house). Later, after the thermo bottle was invented as a domestic appliance, my parents generation took chimarrão to home’s living rooms and balconies. Later, young people took it to the public space. So, there is this tradition of enjoing a private moment among friends and family in a public space with a sort of tea (no alcohol).
Parcão is the nick name of a park in my home town, Porto Alegre. We (my friends and I) would get together there during the evening most of the times. Each one of us was supposed to add a liter of hot water to the moment and most of us would bring our chimarrão kit (cup, straw + yerba). There was a bench chosen for that, because there was a public light lamppost just behind it, and that would help us a lot when serving chimarrão during those long moments.
These is a debate mode, where we could challenge one another, express new knoledges from school and make plans. That was analog communication only mode.
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