Mealtime=Beantime
Dinnertime!
Beans. Dinner usually consisted of beans, sometimes with a side of liquified beans or maybe brown beans or black beans or beans pureed. Beans with bread, beans with cream, beans with rice, beans with tortillas. Sometimes we'd have beans with plantains or beans with eggs. The possibilites are infinate. If you can imagine a way to eat beans, chances are we did it over those beanful 5 weeks. The most common way we ate beans was mashed up with bread. Mashed up beans are not the most appetizing thing to slop onto a plate. It looks a lot like dog shit. After about one week of beans I started to get used to it. We thought the beans were pretty bad, that was until we ate our first guatemalan tomale which was like eatting a soggy block of bread filled with vomit, dipped in grease. My gag relfex stopped me from takin it down. It was incredibly foul. But, as time went by we learned to choke all kinda scary food down, like chicken breast with quills still on it, or overcooked beefsteak. I found the key to eatting anything like a tomale is to slice, dice, and mix with something else. For example, after recieving another tomale later in the trip, I managed to cut it into tiny pieces, mix it with beans, and dip bread into it. It worked. You just gotta have a game plan-thats the key.
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