Crap theory for someone living on the lake called the Caribean, might have thought you would have noticed the odd boat in Veracruz.

Cartagena was the major port through which all goods in the Spanish colonial holdings Los Virreinatos de Neuva Grenada, Nueva Espana y de Peru (also the Philipines, Rio Plata came later and its trade was more direct) passed to Spain, they didn’t have motorbikes in those days.

jeez

It does give you the burps, in fact it is very acidic, cause gastric irritation and can be rather dangerous for people with gastric ulcers.

sorry to piss on the naturalistas organic party but deadly night shade and hemlock are very natural too.

nah

yerba Mate yes is a powdery green herb widely drunk by rural men gaucho style in Paraguay Argentina and Uruguay who have a thermos flask tucked under their arm to top up the mate cup and straw held in the hand of the same arm all the time deftly doing things such as getting in and out of trucks or on horseback (quite funny and surprsingly nelly tho you wouldn’t say so to the moustachioed Gaucho).

Tupi-Guarani is the largest linguistic tribal pre-Colombian tribe in Brazil and has contributed hundreds of words to Brazilian Portugese (many food items of course).

Guarana is really two things in Brazil.

1. A Soda pop that I am convinced is really Irn Bru, containing no Guarana (at least today)

2. the actual herb usually in seed form or powder milled from it from which all those new age Guarana yucky drinks, arise.

The strongest form is an alcoholic tincture, though the best way to take it is to just suck a seed under your tongue.

A chicle or chewing gum form also exists (you can buy it in Holland & Barrett’s)

You will not fall asleep as long as you keep sucking a seed as its a rather convenient slow release method of metabolising it 9and not really that yucky).

This is all mettaculture’s personal observation BTW ‘mais falo a verdade’

Boa Noite

Cheers, Israelinurse.

My Uruguayan friend was not that impressed with it. It is drunk in a few S. American countries, apparently. According to William Emboden’s “Narcotic Plants” (1979, Collier Books, NY) the plant that it is made from (Ilex paraguayensis) grows in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. It was traditionally used as a stimulant centuries before the Conquistadors arrived. Two thirds of all mate is produced in Argentina. The tradition of drinking it from a gourd through a straw or tube originated with the Guarani Indians of Paraguay.

These native peoples indirectly gave their name to guarana, from Paullinia cupana, though here it refers to their language family (Guarani variants are spoken over a wide area). Guarana was made traditionally in Tapajos (Amazonia) by the Manes and Manduru Kus Indians from the seeds. These are crushed and mixed with manioc flour, made into a paste and then baked into “sticks” before being exported to Matto Grosso and Bolivia. Then the sticks would be grated on the rough tongue of a dried fish and added to water.

In Colombi, “yopo” is another type of guarana, made from crushed Paullinia yopo, one of the many spp of Paullinia.

I tried a can of guarana, Graham (no idea where it came from originally) and yes, it was vile.

But at up to 5% caffeine, it is a useful stimulant. Used for thousands of years in S. America apparently, whereas coffee wasn’t brought into Brazil until 1774.

Just gave me the burps.

It is really not very wise for you, as the ‘legal director’ of the BNP a racialist nationalist and legal political party that hopes to win power through the ballot box, to actually be threatening extreme physical violence to a blogger on this site.

Do you understand the extreme gravity of this Lee?.

Do you realise just how much legal and political trouble you and your party can get from you going beyond ribaldry and insult to first accuse Graham of the serious crime of paedophilia and then to threaten him with violence?

You do realise this don’t you Lee?

Or do you need one of the qualified Lawyers on this site to tell you this?

You have succeeded rather well in destroying your party’s credibility for being a non-violent and law abiding and legitimate political party.

You show us that for the BNP, democracy is merely an auxillary strategy for power, and that barely beneath the surface lies the real menacing threat to use violence to achieve your ends, don’t you Lee?

You are hardly likely to surprise those of us who oppose fascism by revealing this easily scratched and exposed predilection for extreme violence, but I would have thought that your inability to stay ‘on message’ is a major embarrassment to your party, what with it trying to distance itself from its terrorist members.

Don’t worry you will not pass, not this time around or ever.

You will not pass.