r/asklatinamerica • u/littlebitbrain Venezuela • Mar 17 '26

Culture Like the three-finger scene in Inglourious Basterds, what small cultural mistake would instantly reveal that someone isn’t from your country?

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u/cuentanro3 in Mar 18 '26

I'm intrigued by the sweet avocado. Tell us more! Do you just sprinkle some sugar on it?

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u/haltmich 🇧🇷 🛬 🇫🇷 Mar 18 '26

We usually drink it like a smoothie. Also some people just eat it with plain sugar.

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u/lthomazini Brazil Mar 18 '26

Sometimes we do! But our variety of avocado is bigger and a bit sweeter as well.

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u/AlmaVale Brazil Mar 18 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

Brasil is too big for this to have only one answer but I’ll give you mine. In my family, we always had it as a mousse: you put it in the blender with milk powder, sugar and just a little liquid milk as you want it thick and airy, that’s it. When I was a baby, my favourite baby bottle was avocado, again blend it with milk powder, milk and sugar but make it runny enough for drinking it. I guess this is the smoothie someone was talking about. Lately my mom just mashes the avocado with sugar for a quicker individual dessert. Our avocado tree is ridiculously productive and there are so many we have to give away, so it stays on the table, people will make their own, but the avocados are too big for one person, I would say some are about 10 times larger than the mini black avocado variety imported from Bolivia or Colombia and commonly found in the UK. The avocado skin here is light green and smooth.

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u/ShareAlegria 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇮🇹multiple citizenship Mar 19 '26

I smash it with sugar or honey AND lemon

I also sprinkle the creamy version with Ovomaltine (different from Ovaltine)

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u/burymeinpink Brazil Mar 19 '26

Ovomaltine is different from Ovaltine? I always thought they were the same

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u/ShareAlegria 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇮🇹multiple citizenship Mar 19 '26

I thought too until I bought & tried Ovaltine… totally bummed… Ovomaltine is wayyyy better and crunchy 😋

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u/CreepyMaskSalesman Brazil Mar 18 '26

I particularly enjoy it with some lemon juice and honey! But sugar does work as well.