The Carrot or the Stick?
Americans have a thing we say about trying to convince people to do something. You can use the carrot (a reward) or the stick (a punishment). I don’t know if there is the same saying here or not. Many things are the same in Portuguese, but not everything.
Any way, Brazil has the carrot. Restaurant “Cenoura” which is Portuguese for carrot, at least in Porto Alegre. It’s specialty is pasteis, small deep fried pies filled with things from meat to, well, carrots. Also sweets. There are a number of different chains specializing in these cheap foods and they’re pretty good, with lots of different flavors and sizes.
Brazil does not seem to have the stick. Not when it comes to deodorants, anyway. I’ve found stick deodorants in the past in Rio, in bigger stores, sometimes. I recently had to buy new deodorant and all I could find this time was roll ons. If you want the stick, bring it with you or have a look at the biggest stores you can find and know where you can find it when you run out.
July 13th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
there were stick deodorants like what… 10 years ago? I remember using them. I can only guess brazilians didnt like them, and thus they stoped being sold here. Seems people here prefered roll-ons.
I hate both. I like sprays.
July 13th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
And I just bought a stick here in the States from a giant selection. Roll-ons are less common now. Weird.
July 29th, 2009 at 7:11 am
Yes, sticks were popular in mid-90s. Now aerosol spray are popular, too.
December 7th, 2010 at 2:03 am
Hehe this is not where I thought you were going with this article. After reading the first paragraph I figured you would be discussing how Americans and Brazilians often take a different approach to getting things accomplished. But, after just returning from Rio, I have to stay that I love pasteis and I was able to find gel deodorants there that I used.