Monkey Toil favorite drink of Chileans
during the Christmas holiday season
by Carlos Barry
SANTIAGO, Chile (&) Egg
ndg? No, no! Tom and Jerry?
Nope. Yule punch? Not down
here. For Christmas is Chile its
cold IMonikey Tail for everybody
'No observance df the holiday
is thinkable without it. Mon
keys Tail (Colo de Mono) is a
beverage composed of coffee,
mulk, egg and high grade alco
hol distilled from grape juice.
It comes bottled and nobody
knows how it got its name.
The dring is served cold be
cause the Christmas season is
in the middle of summer in
Chile — snow can be found
only on' mountain peaks in the
extreme south.
To Chileans, the holiday is
synonymous with family reun
ion. In almost every home
there is a Christmas tree or,
more dften, a Nativity scene
with miniature (figures of the
Christ Child, the Virtgin and St.
Joseph.
On Christmas Eve, toys are
distributed to children. Even
toddlers join adults in drinking
monkey tail, then everyone
troops off to midnight mass.
Towns and cities in Chile
have their worst traffic crushes
on Christmas Eve and ‘the
early hours oif Christmas day
•when virtually everybody goes
to midnight mass. Babies in
arms are always 'taken to the
service by their mothers.
For Christmas dinner, the
traditional main dish is lobster -
brought from the Juan Fernan
dez islands, 400 miles out in the
Pacific ocean. Displayed live in
tanks in shops and restaurants
for weeks before Christmas,
they are expensive ‘but a
“must.”
The country people have
rqast duck with apple stuffing
oif the highly spiced Asado al
Balo, barbecued meat.
A more special feast is Gur
anto, an Arauoaniian Indian
dish prepared from a recipe
probably 1,000 years old. It is
cooked in deep 'pits dug in sand j
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ed herbs and leaves, then filled
with layers of ejggs, fowl, fislh,
clams, oysters, mutton, beef,
and pork (and every available
vegetable. Hot stones are tossed
on top >of the ingredients and
the whole thing is covered tight
ly.
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; finished product are wheeled
j to the guests at lorig pjanik ta
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ever has ibeen known to partake
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