By popular demand chimarrão. Now anybody who has been around someone from Argentina, Uruguay, or Paraguay would say that's just mate, and they would be right. Chimarrão is like tea in inverse kinematics, lots of leaves form the erva mate plant (yerba mate plant in Spanish) with only a little bit of hot water. Special equipment is needed to drink chimarrão. A dried gourd known as a cuia, is used as a cup with a special metal straw, called a bomba, that has a strainer at one end. It is usually drunk in social gatherings passing the gourd around and people taking a sip from the straw. It is predominantly drunk in the south of Brazil, however a variant of the drink is served in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso Sul where it is made with cold water and known as tererê.
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