Talk:polvo
Mate jargon English[edit]
@-sche: Just to have this raised once: Do you think polvo and palo have passed into English here or is it an exaggeration?
“It has Gaucho properties in that it’s finely ground and contains small, splinter palo, but it has absolutely no polvo; very washed and “clean” sort of composition. Again, I think Eco Teas is taking the “American Palate” into consideration here, making a safe play by removing — in what I consider a vital ingredient — the polvo. With no polvo, the mate is less dimensional and the viscosity of the infusion is severely weakened (perhaps the nutritional value is compromised as well); you lose the malt-like flavor profiles which I believe balances not only the taste, but the environment of the yerba inside the gourd. The polvo acts as a sort of binding agent […]” (and so it goes on)
For wine all kinds of kooky Frenchisms and Germanisms are dictionarized (I am not the first to make this word up!) and mate drinkers are othered? Fay Freak (talk) 14:07, 11 October 2021 (UTC)