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In 2016, during a presidential visit to Argentina to meet the new Argentine president (Mauricio Macri), Barack Obama took the opportunity to taste a drink that had long attracted his curiosity: mate .
Rather proud to have tried this infusion, Barack Obama did not fail to mention it during his various speeches in Buenos Aires, Argentina .
“When I was at university, I read Borges or Cortázar, these people… They all drank mate, and I didn’t know what it was.”
“I knew that when I finally got to Buenos Aires, I would try some. I just had some and it was… pretty good!”
"My team thinks I looked very clear-headed at the press conference, and they think it must be because of the mate."
"So I'll probably bring some back when I get back to the States. I don't know what kind of import and export controls I might be breaking... On Air Force One I can usually do whatever I want!"
Mate is a South American drink that is drunk through a filter straw (called a "bombilla") in a container called a " mate calabash ." All this while infusing " yerba mate " leaves. Want to try this drink? Discover mate with one of our mate discovery boxes .
