Fun fact: Yerba Mate is widely used in Syria and Lebanon due to trade between Latin America and the Levant. I grew up drinking Yerba Mate Tea almost every day.
Yes. It used to be that a great place to leverage this fun fact to your advantage if you were looking to score yerba in the U.S. was a middle-eastern grocery. Also fun to have a bag of Cruz de Malta with an ingredients label in Arabic slapped on it. Nowadays, of course, it's easier just to go online.
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