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
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 4 September 2015 20:29 (eight years ago) link
oh man, yeah.
pacae, lucuma (-flavoured ice cream), platano de la isla/manzano, maracuya, guanabana, granadilla, cherimoya
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 4 September 2015 20:50 (eight years ago) link
thanks guys! I am so hungry now
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Friday, 4 September 2015 20:58 (eight years ago) link
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
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 4 September 2015 21:00 (eight years ago) link
jugo de maracuya is the best, lucuma also delicious
― sleeve, Friday, 4 September 2015 21:05 (eight years ago) link
I had a pastel de choclo which was topped with caramelised sugar, like a creme brûlée. That was a really weird experience.
― suffeeciant attreebution (aldo), Saturday, 5 September 2015 16:50 (eight years ago) link
i don't think it's the same thing but i had sweet humita in peru, which was really, really good
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Sunday, 6 September 2015 01:20 (eight years ago) link
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 :(
― marcos, Sunday, 6 September 2015 11:17 (eight years ago) link
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.
― EDB, Sunday, 6 September 2015 15:43 (eight years ago) link
yesterday we skied a Cerro and then went to a rodeo
life is good
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 01:18 (eight years ago) link
enjoy it, gbx!
hoping to make it out to patagonia once in this life. antarctica would be a dream come true
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 19:58 (eight years ago) link
well that was fun
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Wednesday, 16 September 2015 17:04 (eight years ago) link
ski mountaineering is fun
https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xta1/v/t1.0-9/11225320_10100571418140266_8222542089262893288_n.jpg?oh=c217d75deb3871bd9899013e4073b66f&oe=5666AA73
https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfl1/v/t1.0-9/12004690_10100574997242716_2009773118661914150_n.jpg?oh=f4dc193e10db7ee5b137d085b903e8ed&oe=569AB696
https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/12002247_10100575088010816_6881214488047904144_n.jpg?oh=fb3081191459d6e745180b9e1c39f23c&oe=566E9DA5
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Wednesday, 16 September 2015 17:08 (eight years ago) link
jealous!
what peak is that?
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 16 September 2015 18:53 (eight years ago) link
How high did you climb?
― Aimless, Wednesday, 16 September 2015 19:08 (eight years ago) link
awesome
― drash, Wednesday, 16 September 2015 19:09 (eight years ago) link
wowwwww
― welltris (crüt), Wednesday, 16 September 2015 19:10 (eight years ago) link
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
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Wednesday, 16 September 2015 19:26 (eight years ago) link
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
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Wednesday, 16 September 2015 19:27 (eight years ago) link
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us20003k7a#general_summary
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 16 September 2015 23:25 (eight years ago) link
yeah, they're saysing either 7.2 or 7.9.
tsunami alert
man, second time within two years
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 16 September 2015 23:41 (eight years ago) link
holy shit
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 17 September 2015 00:06 (eight years ago) link
:/
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 17 September 2015 00:32 (eight years ago) link
good luck, gbx. we hope you weren't on the coast or on a cliff when it happened!
― Aimless, Thursday, 17 September 2015 02:09 (eight years ago) link
I'm seeing 8.3, jeez
http://www.rt.com/news/315618-tsunami-waves-chile-earthquake/
― sleeve, Thursday, 17 September 2015 02:09 (eight years ago) link
I actually landed back in Boston about an hour after it happened -- yikes
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 17 September 2015 02:24 (eight years ago) link
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
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Thursday, 17 September 2015 05:31 (eight years ago) link
hope you hear from them soon cg
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 17 September 2015 13:32 (eight years ago) link
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
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Thursday, 17 September 2015 21:08 (eight years ago) link
displacement at the fault line
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Thursday, 17 September 2015 21:09 (eight years ago) link
https://images.vivino.com/labels/00d06ft8ifr5v.jpg
― сверх (nakhchivan), Thursday, 28 April 2016 17:55 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ajftae7.jpg
https://images.vivino.com/thumbs/0271wpwebbwzp_375x500.jpg
that first one is from my dad's hometown lol
― Is Jack Nicholson really qualify as "Partyman"? (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 28 April 2016 18:02 (eight years ago) link
Chilean wine-growing country is p big into Pinochet in general though #problematiccarmenere
― Is Jack Nicholson really qualify as "Partyman"? (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 28 April 2016 18:05 (eight years ago) link
what is the most woke part of chile?
― сверх (nakhchivan), Thursday, 28 April 2016 18:10 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Is Jack Nicholson really qualify as "Partyman"? (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 28 April 2016 18:15 (eight years ago) link
Oh yeah there's a small seaside town called Horcon that is popular with hippies and artists and has chile's only nudist beach
― Is Jack Nicholson really qualify as "Partyman"? (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 28 April 2016 18:20 (eight years ago) link
what about valparaiso
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 28 April 2016 20:17 (eight years ago) link
yeah probably a good answer tho ive only spent like a day there. definitely more woke than adjacent Vina del Mar.
― Is Jack Nicholson really qualify as "Partyman"? (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 28 April 2016 20:23 (eight years ago) link
Where is that wine from? I have a bottle from Undurraga that is "Pablo Neruda" logo wine.
― Yerac, Friday, 29 April 2016 01:24 (eight years ago) link
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Baviera
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 7 May 2016 12:56 (eight years ago) link
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]
Honecker was widely known as the "Purple Witch" for her tinted hair and hardline Stalinist views, and was "hated and feared" in East Germany.[1][4][6][7] Former Bundestag president Wolfgang Thierse has described her as "the most hated person" in East Germany next to Stasi chief Erich Mielke.[8][9] She was responsible for the enactment of the "Uniform Socialist Education System" in 1965 and mandatory military training in schools.[3]
idk if this counts as woke? probably more woke than paul schaefer anyway
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 7 May 2016 12:57 (eight years ago) link
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
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 21:52 (six years ago) link
i mean considering there was no divorce law until 2004 the country is making some strides
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 29 August 2017 21:53 (six years ago) link
i would like to go back to chile
― gbx, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 04:00 (six years ago) link
Me too. Santiago seemed really nice for all 3 days I was there
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 12:44 (six years ago) link
me three. it's been 9 years -_-
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 30 August 2017 18:03 (six years ago) link
Me too. Was gonna do a couple months there last year but had to change plans. Looks super cool
― tobo73, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link
I would like to go back to chile
― brimstead, Wednesday, 30 August 2017 20:35 (six years ago) link