Around here, the three of us gringos have taken to supplementing all of our meals. You see, dear readers, the Chileans don't eat a whole lot. We usually have bread and butter, jam, ham, or cheese for breakfast along with cereal and yogurt. Lunch is usually pretty good, consisting of a fruit of some type, some sort of meat, and maybe pasta or soup. Dinner is pretty much the same. As I mentioned, the food is good, but there usually isn't a whole lot of it. Between the relative scarcity of food and the track workouts we have to do for physicial training, we get a little bit hungry in between meals. At this point, we check our watches are realize what time it is. Usually, it's Italiano'clock.
I hear you asking yourself, what's an Italiano. It's like a hot dog, except instead of putting ketchup, mustard, relish, and the like on it, the Chileans like to cover their hot dogs in diced tomatoes and guacamole (here it's called palta). It's pretty delicious. We also have the "jamon palta" consisting of ham and guacamole in between two slices of bread. Another favorite of ours is the "churrasco italiano" which is a sandwhich made of churrasco meat and guacamole. As you can see, they're pretty big fans of the guacamole here.
Pounding an italiano usually leaves me feeling a little bit of intestinal distress, but I always keep coming back for more italianos in between classes. It's just too good to deny.
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