Puzzle Description:

Mate: is a traditional South American infused drink. It is prepared from steeping dried leaves of yerba mate in hot water.

#1: Teresa K (fasstar) on Sep 5, 2009 [SPOILER]

Very nice clean image, fun to solve. I didn't recognize it, because I had never heard of mate. How do you pronounce that? What is Canejo? Is this like tea?

MAH-tay is how it is pronounced. I, too, don't know what canejo is. I know cOnejo is rabbit in Spanish, but cAnejo? I don't know.

Thanks, Adam.

I found Canejo - a retailer in Argentina that sells mates. Very pretty designs:
http://www.canejoargentino.com.ar/

And I checked Wiki to find out more about yerba mate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_mat%C3%A9

Delicious! I love yerba mate. Interesting puzzle!

Lindo encontrar un compatriota dandole a la güevpebeene!
Por que canejo?

A poco son los dos de Uds. Argentinos? Buscó Teresa que canejo es una tienda que vende mate.

"Canejo" is an interjection, like a curse, something like "damn it", used by an argentinian cartoon character called Patoruzu who was an indian. I think the word was used to avoid the use of another one considered a "bad word".

A curse word doesn't make much sense in the context of this puzzle. Perhaps Emiliano will explain the title? Por favor?

Well, it's not a *curse*, it's more an interjection, as in "fuerza, canejo!!!" (go, go, go!) or "vamos todavía, canejo!!!". (a happy exclamation when something is accomplished - we talk this way, sorry...)
My guess is that Emiliano thought: most typical argentinian beverage - typical argentinian word.

I remember this drink from my days spent in southern Brazil. I never drank it, but I thought it looked and smelled like grass. :) Families would pass one large gourd around for everyone to sip out of. I never before that really considered myself a germ freak, but thought that everyone sharing the same straw was unsanitary. They assured me that the drink is so hot that it would kill all the germs. lol

See ya learn something new everyday...never heard of this before. Nice puzzle.

#9 So, not so much "Damn it!" as "DAYum!".

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