By: Miki Erickson
People in Brazil eat dinner later than people in the U.S.. They eat right before they go to sleep usually. When going to a club or bar in Brazil, you typically do not leave the house until after 11, which is very different from the U.S. Here, people usually get home around midnight. This allows people in Brazil to eat later in the evening. There is a big difference in overall lifestyle between Brazil and the United States.
I eat a lot of the same things as Barbara on a daily basis. We eat a lot of fruits, vegetables and different meats during the week. These meats are beef and chicken mostly. Barbara really enjoys eggs and rice too! On the weekends, we both eat a little bit unhealthier. These foods include pizza, pasta and hamburgers. I did not expect us to have similar favorite foods. Barbara’s favorite foods are pizza and Japanese food! The biggest difference in our preferences is that he consumes much more caffeine than I do. I only drink decaffeinated tea and barely drink sodas.
A dish that Barbara thinks represents Brazil is bean stew and barbecue. In Brazil, meat is in almost every meal and people like to eat a lot of fresh vegetables. Barbara said that he has never been to any other countries in South America when I asked him to compare Brazilian food to other cuisines in that region. He did say that Brazilian food is very different from Mexican food though. Mexican food is a lot greasier than Brazilian food. People in Brazil try to eat pretty clean and healthy.
Barbara’s favorite food that he tried in the United States were tacos. Tacos are also one of my favorite foods. There are so many different things you can put in tacos. You can make them healthy or unhealthy at all based on your personal diet. There are lots of great places in Auburn to get tacos such as Taco Mama and Taco Rita. They are more americanized than authentic Mexican tacos, though.
Barbara does not drink a lot of sodas, but every once in a while he will drink Coke Zero or Sprite Zero. He gets most of his caffeine from coffee. Coffee is a big thing in a lot of Spanish countries. People need to remember this when traveling and interacting with different cultures. In the United States, people drink coffee in the morning, but in places like Brazil, people drink it throughout the day and even into the night.
There are a lot more similarities in our diets than what I would think.
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