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Nice to see that the drink Mate is slowly entering the consciousness of the rest of the world through both the most famous football player of the world as well as the programming world.

I take it whenever I have to work in a place with bad coffee.

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To me mate tastes like making a brew out of the contents of an ashtray.

I've tried it once. It tasted like ashtray and didn't help with focus, instead I've felt agitated and unreal. Even filtering in aeropress didn't help with that taste.

How did you prepare it in the first place?

In aeropress and in another occasion by avid yerba drinker.

If you're a soda drinker and ever in Germany, try a Club Mate. :-)

When I go to mate.de, the page says “Forbidden.”

It's an acquired taste, like wine, beer or coffee. But that shouldn't stop you from trying to find a blend that better suits your taste. I prefer softer brands mixed with a bit of mint.

I think adding sugar is disgusting, if you really need to add a small amount of honey. If it tastes like ashtray possibly the water was too hot.

Poe's law in action: I'm unsure whether you are mocking people who do not read the article, or if you actually failed to read the article and thought that Ubuntu Mate was some kind of Ubuntu-branded yerba mate.

I always thought that the 'mate' in Ubuntu MATE was synonym with 'pal', but after checking it actually does come yerba maté : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATE_(software)

Oof that was pleasantly unexpected! Thanks for sharing!

Not a big fan of the MATE DE, but a big fan of the drink.

Maybe I should give the former another try just based on this.

It also explains why the color scheme is green :)

I'm not a fan, but it sure beats bad coffee when all you need is something warm.

In order to reduce my coffee consumption, I've also tried drinking just warm water. It seems the Chinese recommend it.

Yeah in China cold water is considered bad for your health, although as far as I can tell this is more tradition than actual health advice, likely derived from the necessity of boiling water to make it safe to drink before safe running water.

It's common to add some green tea leaves and continually top up using the same leaves throughout the day.

Drinking warm water is very popular in India and considered to be more healthy than imbibing liquid at temperatures below body temperature.

[Pero]'s my favorite caffeine-free coffee replacement.

[Pero]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caro_%28drink%29?wprov=sfla1

As a British person, even though I have heard of mate (I've heard Argentinian people talk about it), I thought it was mate in the sense of friend until I read this comment.

Club Mate (and other derivatives) has been fueling the German hacker scene since the 90ies

It's unofficial slogan is "One get's used to it" which I think is also very fitting to this project. (Gotten used to Gnome 2, not wanting to switch to something else)

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