Breakfasts in Guate are every bit as culturally iconic as the breakfast is in Britain. Central to the desayuno chapin is the pot or jarrilla of sweet hot coffee.
Few months back I was in Guatemala drinking coffee of the 'cafe la jarrillita' kind with a relative. Grinning, he said to me pointing at the ripped open satchet of coffee:
That's got to be the first time I've heard an English-Guatemalan pun. May be it'll be the last :-)
Few months back I was in Guatemala drinking coffee of the 'cafe la jarrillita' kind with a relative. Grinning, he said to me pointing at the ripped open satchet of coffee:
"Hey, you didn't know we had Harry Potter in Guatemala did you? It's this 'potter' of coffee from the 'jarrillita'. Here's our Jarri Potter..."
That's got to be the first time I've heard an English-Guatemalan pun. May be it'll be the last :-)
