Thursday, May 03, 2007

Tienda de cerveza.


22 Comments:

Blogger Iceman said...

Whoa! That HAS to be from the guay.

This photo sparks a question. Is there a guarani word for beer? And if so, what is it?

12:31 PM  
Blogger pollo said...

i'll be right on that one

3:53 PM  
Blogger pollo said...

damn, missed op.
just got back from the dispensa and i only remembered on the way back to ask the word in guarani...
i am guessing that it is similar to spanish, as i believe there was no beer in precolombiano times. in a language that never felt the need to count beyond five, beer is seemingly impossible. wait, my gringo conditioning is blocking my view. one must remember that beers come in liters, and the keg is a relatively new tool here.
if you were really fucked up and you language was relies on nasal tones and spanish was your second language, how would you say beer?

4:35 PM  
Blogger Iceman said...

Whoa, Pollo, that is a fun question.

I was also impressed the use of only one "p" in your "opportunity" abreviation. Now THAT is an abreveiation.

As to an answer to posed question, I would go with a combination of beer and near. bneer.

"get me another bneer."

Where does the word beer even come from? I'm guessing that it is germanic, since Germans say Bier.

Maybe the guarani say "gear" or maybe they say, "balala" hell man, no frame of reference is killing me here. Guarani cannot be traced etimologically speaking, and therefore I can only stab in the dark.

5:49 PM  
Blogger Oso blanco said...

Doesn't MY BEER look guarani to you?

7:12 AM  
Blogger Iceman said...

Sometimes the answer is right before our eyes.

8:22 AM  
Blogger pollo said...

ok folks,
there is no guarani word for beer. guarani did not drink baviera nor brahma. however, they did drink fermented corn juice and anything else fermented. it is all referred to as guaripola. This information comes from the guarani teacher at ASA. i asked if it still can be procured. "no. todo el mundo ya toma cerveza y caña." of course, the shit is free. why bother? i also was told that wine is called" ????" i cannot remember, cuz as i was about to right it down i was told the translation to spanish is Th Blood of Christ. doesn´t count. nobody in south america drank Christ´s blood before pizarro showed up and told them about it.

2:46 PM  
Blogger Iceman said...

Wow, is there anything in the guay called guaricola? That would make it easy for a kid to talk himself out of being busted for trying to by beer. "No, solo estaba pidiendo guaricola, no guaripola."

6:07 PM  
Blogger pollo said...

kids can buy whatever they want here

7:10 PM  
Blogger Iceman said...

yeah man, states conditioning is more powerful than I thought. I clearly need to get back to south america soon.

This has made me reflect and realize that the only time I have seen people smile while doing manual labor is in latin america.

7:42 PM  
Blogger Oso blanco said...

Pollo your mission is to come up with a picture and a critique of the guarani refreshing adult beverage guaripola. You will probably be able to find a 5 pack. Hint: jujo ladies at mercado cuatro.

6:53 AM  
Blogger pollo said...

yeah. merc 4 is a great starting place..it is much closer than those three averadudes in the middle of the Chaco with smiles on their faces.

4:45 PM  
Blogger Oso blanco said...

Is it possible that the Pre-Colombian Gurani didn't get fucked up on alcohol? Perhaps they used other methods to alter their conciousness. If so we need to know.

6:32 AM  
Blogger pollo said...

from what the guarani told me, they drank fermented corn juice which is the guaripola stuff....original flavor.
however, they may have smoked something, as i saw giant banner/flag at the guarani game yesterday which said, "Los intoxicados por el indio" and it had a big profile of an indio with a handrolled cigarette in his mouth and very red eyes.

1:40 PM  
Blogger Iceman said...

Schnikes!! Sounds like a potential cape for the average dude.

Oso, I think the guarani licked toads for mind altering experiences.

Todd is disgusted by the idea, but then again, he can barely manage to look in the mirror.

Man, how do you think the first person came to lick a toad? I would be willing to bet that it involved teenagers and a small penis.

7:44 PM  
Blogger pollo said...

i think the first dude to lick a frog saw a monkey do it first.

4:16 PM  
Blogger Oso blanco said...

Yeah the monkey thought it was an avocado.

6:30 AM  
Blogger pollo said...

i will add that my hypothesis is not exclusive, as a matter of fact, it most likely did involve teenagers.

3:55 PM  
Blogger Iceman said...

An avocado. Interesting. Why would a monkey lick an avocado? Maybe he thought it was his nut sack.

8:22 AM  
Blogger pollo said...

there ya go ice, that must be wear the small penis comes to play

5:05 AM  
Blogger Oso blanco said...

Must have been one of them bumpy mexican avocados.

8:05 AM  
Blogger Oso blanco said...

Must have been one of them bumpy mexican avocados.

8:05 AM  

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