Argentina Buenos Aires North Mission

Argentina, because it's a mixing pot of a lot of South America. You have lots of Peruvian, Bolivian food, Argentinian food. As far as Argentinian food goes, I would be careful of morcilla. It's like this blood sausage. It will probably just do your stomach a lot of harm, but you know, some people like it. There's also Peruvian food, where they'll serve you hondongo, which is like cow intestines. Igolo, they'll serve you liver. Other than that, all the food, you know, is pretty good. Nothing crazy spicy. You'll love the Argentina food, the Peruvian food, the Bolivian food. Just kind of be careful of those. I mean, maybe you kind of like the exotic stuff and you'll really enjoy that, but other than that, you'll get tons of meat. You know, just be careful not to eat too much bread or else you'll put on the weight.

So Argentina is full of flavor. They don't believe in like spicy food, but full of flavor. I'll say Argentines. If you work with Bolivians or anything else like that, they do enjoy spicy. But there is a wide variety. There's lots of sausage, chicken, a lot of noodles, very European type foods, and you'll get some crazy interesting flavors. They use like corn and I don't even know what's in it, but fine now, it's just like this cornbread type pizza. Actually, I think it's made out of garbanzo beans. You put it on top of your pizza and it like makes it more filling. It's not bad. In fact, like I, if you ever go to El Fortin and I think it's in the actual capital of Versailles, maybe the area, go there, have their pizza. It's delicious.

The biggest one for me that I just kind of like physically rejected, as much as I tried to like it, was morsesia. I'm sure the other videos talk about it. It's just blood sausage and it can be served hot or cold or somewhere in the middle and it just is not very very appetizing. But there's a lot of great foods. One thing is the there's really interesting pizza there. A pizza that me and one of my companions would always get is called pizza cochina and it's just like the craziest pizza you'll ever imagine. It's got fried eggs on top, french fries, like ketchup, olives, meat of some sort. It's like sounds really gross but it's really good. I'd highly recommend pizza cochina.

While I was there in Argentina, I got to try all the normal things that lots of people get. You hear about getting melanesas, which is basically fried chicken. Then you get pasta con tuco, which is spaghetti. You get all these normal things, but then you also get these times where you get some not so normal things. I think the craziest thing I ever got is I got a raw cow heart. That was an experience to say the least. Generally, you don't get that. Generally, the people there are really awesome. They give you the best of what they can, and really it's a good experience.

One thing I do want to prepare you for is a world of flavor in chimichurri sauce. It's basically like garlic and some herbs and like they like just let it sit in a jar for like months sometimes, maybe even years, who knows. But like the more it sits the better it gets and they marinate their meat with it, they put it in their sausages, churipan. If you see it, get it, it's delicious with salsa criolla. And basically chimichurri is very, very Argentine, they put it on everything, it's delicious. I wouldn't recommend their anchovy pizza if you ever get part of that and their corn empanadas are kind of weird but everything else is pretty good.

So some crazy foods in Argentina that I experienced were, I think number one, morcilla, which is basically blood sausage. You could have it like warm, cold, on the grill, whatever. If you're not like familiar with blood sausage, it's just like sausage but they keep the blood in. And so that was like really disgusting for me. I didn't like it, but I did try it in all forms and I recommend trying it. Some people love it. Some other foods, they have like intestine, tongue. The tongue is freaking huge, like they have to beat it. And I liked tongue if it was soaked in a vinaigrette and chilled. Other than that, I could not. They had like deep-fried tongue with like batter and it was, it was like gag worthy. I thought it was milanesa. It was not milanesa.

Another, I guess, crazy food, I don't know if you call it crazy, but they have this thing called mate. You may have heard about it. It's basically like herbal tea. Some missions allow you to drink it, some don't. And you can replace the drink out of it in a cup, which is also called mate. And they have a straw called bombicha. And you can put different things in it. I highly recommend putting oatmeal and then getting chocolate milk and pouring it in and then slurping it up. It is heavenly. A great breakfast. It's not as crazy as like the intestines or the tongue or anything like that, but you'll enjoy it.