Hola Chicos,

Though not a big fan of “bad fats”, I occasionally like to use butter with my dinner rolls, jam and toast, and French toast. In 2006 my other half and I ventured off quite often for lunch and dinner in Montevideo, Uruguay.

We sampled most if not all the restaurants available in our neighborhood, Punta Caretas, as well as Pocitos neighborhood.

Well this is what promoted me to write about this particular topic today. “Its not butter!” That is what my other half said the first time he slabbed on a thick spoonful of “butter” on his dinner roll. He took a bite and looked at me with disgust. As if he was eating glass or something awful.

“Its not butter”, he said. Well, I took a tiny taste and started laughing. Its really bad mayonnaise that’s been sitting on their serving counters for what not hours. Not caring if we looked like tourist or not, I asked our waiter to clarify my assumption that it was indeed bad mayonnaise. The waiter happily replied that is was “Ricco” (taste good) mayonnaise.

Alright, as I’ve said before, I like to eat healthy and butter is really bad fat and so is mayonnaise. But I occasionally like to eat both. The later version with potato salads, tuna sandwiches, and some Japanese dishes. But on a dinner roll?

I mean don’t get me wrong, I’ve been to quite a bit of other countries and I’d have to say that mayonnaise in replace of butter for a dinner roll is top. More so, warm to even not really good temperature mayonnaise in replace of butter can make people sick.

But hey, who am I to say? I asked my Uruguayan friend about this and she said she loves mayonnaise. She eats it with everything even spaghetti. I think a little bit of my breakfast just came up.

How does she stay so thin? She says its the smoking. Right, eat bad warm mayonnaise on everything and smoke a cigarette afterwards. Right, that is healthy.

I digress, word of warning for any of you out there that has some restraints and don’t use smoking as a dietary supplement. The stuff they put in your face is not butter its warm mayonnaise.

Oh yeah, and its not complementary either, they charge for the bread and mayonnaise in most restaurants.

Ciao,

Odeliza Jacoba

Odeliza