South American cuisine pizza, being closer to calzones. Pasta and polenta are common in Argentina and on the Pampas generally. Empanadas and choripán are very popular fast food in Argentina and Uruguay. Churros, ensaïmada, alfajor, Spanish tortillas with potato, meatballs, sopa de mondongo, and puchero are Spanish derived Pampas cuisine. Mate is also found on the Pampas. Early South American restaurants in the United States included Caso do Brazil in Reseda, California, which opened in 1955, and the Machu Picchu nightclub in Miami, Florida, which opened in 1963, serving Peruvian dishes such as ceviche and anticuchos. South American foods are increasingly imported into
Argentina–Uruguay relations of 1988, the sole dry limit between Argentina and Uruguay is stablished at the Martín García Island During the presidency of Jorge Batlle in Uruguay, an infidelity of a journalist carried a considerable diplomatic incident in 2002 when an off-topic commentary was aired in Uruguayan television describing Batlle saying that "'Argentinians are all thieves"'. The incident solved after one week when Batlle publicly apologized on Argentinian television. Another filtered commentary of Uruguayan president José Mujica was aired during a meeting where he said that "'with the Turk we were better but with this old lady there is no deal"' making