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fwiw...
g~j never, ever eat at the golden arches...
BUT, we are not that self-righteous - that when we really, really need to take a crap...
and the golden arches are within waddling distance...
then we go for a well deserved McShit...!
(yes, we are always very happy with their clean toilets!)

G-J, that is hilarious and so true. How I wished many times when I was in the south of Chile last year that I would find a McD anywhere just for decent toilets.

A

Atlantis wrote:

fwiw...
g~j never, ever eat at the golden arches...
BUT, we are not that self-righteous - that when we really, really need to take a crap...
and the golden arches are within waddling distance...
then we go for a well deserved McShit...!
(yes, we are always very happy with their clean toilets!)

G-J, that is hilarious and so true. How I wished many times when I was in the south of Chile last year that I would find a McD anywhere just for decent toilets.

A

to continue blatant non-self righteousness
and if truth be told - all may also be advised...
if the Golden Arch franchise is noticeable absent in our vicinity...
and we still need said immediate bowel movement...
we also look for any KFC franchises...
so we can hurriedly engage in a Kentucky Free Crap
(and no - we never, ever eat there either...)
(but yes, we are also very happy with their clean toilets!)

The boiled toilet paper came with a side of paste. Me thinks px got hungry while trying to make recycled paper.

Before the lajars and other volcanic activity occurred, Chaiten had a dumpy little co-op type restaurant along a side street which served massive steaming bowls of Sopa de Mariscos. Mariscos like I've never seen before. Delicious, but if you are queasy best not to look at exactly what you have spooned up. Served with a half cup of chopped cilantro and a bottle of house pebre. Huge servings of fresh salmon offset the side glob of instant mashes potatoes.

Panama and Costa Rican cuisine rival Chile for inventive relatively blah dishes: CR: Gallo Pinto old rice and beans with some chopped onions and green peppers with their signature Lizano sauce. Panama: white rice, unseasoned lentils, a slice of thin, gristly meat and the never-ending cardboard-tasting patacones. Panama does have Ropa Vieja...shredded old beef with onions and peppers served over rice with...wait for it...patacones. We like our meat fried here. Any kind of meat, fried. Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do about the patacones, they are simply everywhere.

Back to Chile. On my first foray out into the city, I ordered an Italiano thinking I would get my idea of an Italian sub. Imagine my surprise when I got a weepy tepid hotdog somewhere down under the smashed avocado, chopped tomatoes, onions and wait for it... you know it's coming...a half cup of mayo.

I am sooo looking forward to a real asado next month. They are simple affairs out in el campo. The young beast roasting outside, inside the women chopping lettuce and tomatoes and boiling potatoes. The family's special chimichuri sauce, one good knife to pass around, one dishrag to wipe hands, wine, cold beer bobbing in a bucket under the water spiqet.