Mouth full of soap

Here´s my observations about what Argentines (this rhymes with Clementines) have and dont have:

HAVE
meat
good cheap wine
lots of water - average shower head puts out 20 cfm - brace yourself
bidets even very cheap hotels
urinals grande - you know the old fashioned kind that run from floor to mid chest.
You cant miss
Blackout curtains. If dinner starts at 9 or 10 and nightlife commences after that,
you need to be able to sleep in
Very sexy ads (a la Francaise) especially for boots

DONT HAVE
kleenex Not in any hotel room I dont know how anyone blows their nose, cause I
havn´t seen any hankerchiefs either. This is a mystery

napkins Well, in slighly nicer restaurants, there are big cloth napkins, but in cantinas there are only 3" square thin single thickness pieces of slick paper. Another part of the plot to prevent nose blowing

pepper. most restaurants have only the salt shaker, but some of the nicer ones have both shakers (big holes and little holes) filled with salt.

heart disease, or hypertension. Apparently. When the 2lb steak comes with potatoes, some patrons take a salt shaker in both hands to apply a generous coating. See DTG´s "Deep Powder Cookies"

THE NOTCH This is a bigger mystery than the nose blowing problem. Many things (candy, crackers, cookies, shampoo) come prepackaged in plastic wrap envelopes but WITHOUT the little notch that allows you to tear them open. I have no knife since we traveled with only carry on luggage. Many explosions occur. This morning was the worst, when I tried to tear open the shampoo packet with my teeth....

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