chile

choripan = bbq'd chorizo on a bun.

quite like chilean empanadas actually. the ones i've had didn't have raisins in them, though

i've had other latin american countries' empanadas, and i think my favourites are the ones from chile and argentina (their salteñas)

not a fan of the icing sugar on the peruvian ones

never been to chile but I gotta post when someone actually mentions salteñas bc they're the best, paceños forever

I love going to South America just for the fruit tbh

oh man, yeah.

pacae, lucuma (-flavoured ice cream), platano de la isla/manzano, maracuya, guanabana, granadilla, cherimoya

thanks guys! I am so hungry now

yeah in La Paz there's this bougie resto Dumbo on the Prado that makes amazing fruit drinks, w or w/o milk. I love their tumbo drink, tastes like all the best fruits all mixed together, like a liquid fruit cocktail as you get in cans in the USA

jugo de maracuya is the best, lucuma also delicious

I had a pastel de choclo which was topped with caramelised sugar, like a creme brûlée. That was a really weird experience.

i don't think it's the same thing but i had sweet humita in peru, which was really, really good

sweet humitas are really good

In Santiago we ate out at this place and my friend ordered pastel de choclo and it tasted like cigarette ash :(

I think the thing in chile is that everything is really oversweetened (to the point of being like, a public concern) and yeah, fast food culture. My favourite thing was humitas with diced tomatos and avocado with some olive oil mixed in. And marraquettas, which I think are supposed to be the de facto national bread, are great. Empanadas are delicious. Chilean sandwiches are weird. Aside from seafood all the best restaurants I ate at were Peruvian, because omg authentic peruvian food.

yesterday we skied a Cerro and then went to a rodeo

life is good

enjoy it, gbx!

hoping to make it out to patagonia once in this life. antarctica would be a dream come true

well that was fun

ski mountaineering is fun

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jealous!

what peak is that?

How high did you climb?

awesome

wowwwww

peak pictured is volcan lonquimay (first pic is from cerro morro) -- elevation is only 9400ft but we started at about 5000ft

few days earlier we made an attempt at nevados de chillan but came up a couple hundred meters

short, due largely to my lack of fitness

great descent tho. lonquimay on the other hand was bulletproof 30deg ice for virtually the whole way down. great day tho

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20003k7a#general_summary

yeah, they're saysing either 7.2 or 7.9.

tsunami alert

man, second time within two years

holy shit

:/

good luck, gbx. we hope you weren't on the coast or on a cliff when it happened!

I'm seeing 8.3, jeez

http://www.rt.com/news/315618-tsunami-waves-chile-earthquake/

I actually landed back in Boston about an hour after it happened -- yikes

Glad you're back safe gbx (and sounds like a rad trip you took). I have lots of family (including mother, who just went back from visiting ) and friends in Chile and no idea how they fared tonight

hope you hear from them soon cg

Thanks gbx. Ok so I heard via my aunt in Santiago that the family is fine, and the damage in general much less than in 2010 (despite only half a Richter's difference) because the shock waves were primarily horizontal rather than vertical in nature (a function of the

displacement at the fault line

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http://i.imgur.com/ajftae7.jpg

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that first one is from my dad's hometown lol

Chilean wine-growing country is p big into Pinochet in general though #problematiccarmenere

what is the most woke part of chile?

Chile is extremely unwoke even as far as South America goes.

boring answer to the question though: probably Santiago.

The University of Concepcion was always good for a bit of left-wing activism too.

Oh yeah there's a small seaside town called Horcon that is popular with hippies and artists and has chile's only nudist beach

what about valparaiso

yeah probably a good answer tho ive only spent like a day there. definitely more woke than adjacent Vina del Mar.

Where is that wine from? I have a bottle from Undurraga that is "Pablo Neruda" logo wine.

Paul Schaefer was born near Bonn in 1921. He had a glass eye, having accidentally gouged out his right eye while trying to untie a shoelace knot with a fork. He joined the Nazi youth movement before becoming a Luftwaffe medic stationed in France during World War II. In 2006, Mr. Schaefer was sentenced to 20 years for sexually abusing minors and three years for violating weapons laws. In 2008, he received additional sentences for torturing colony residents and for killing an allegedly traitorous security agent who had served under Pinochet.

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Margot Honecker (née Feist; 17 April 1927 – 6 May 2016) was an East German politician, who was an influential member of the East German communist party and the East German regime until 1989. From 1963 until 1989, she was "Minister of People's Education" (Ministerin für Volksbildung) of the GDR. She was married to Erich Honecker, the dictator of East Germany from 1971 until 1989.[1][3][4][5]

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idk if this counts as woke? probably more woke than paul schaefer anyway

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/aug/29/chile-president-michelle-bachelet-introduces-gay-marriage-bill

ok, so it hasn't passed yet.

and abortion is still illegal in most circumstances.

but some progress

i mean considering there was no divorce law until 2004 the country is making some strides

i would like to go back to chile

Me too. Santiago seemed really nice for all 3 days I was there

me three. it's been 9 years -_-

https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Constitutional-Council-in-Chile-Remains-in-the-Center-Right-20230508-0001.html