Bizarre Brazil

Manioc

Pumpkin

Gourds

Gourds

Antique Brazilian coins

Valongo Market, where you could buy slaves

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Black people selling food and others things at Rio de Janeiro in the 1800′

Palmit and baskets seller

Bird and basket sellers

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This photo is from a place (circa 1930-1936) where meat was salted and dried and produce a kind of meat we call, until today, “charque”. They used to put the salted meat at this wood device to be dried.

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Photos circa 1930-1936 - Pictures from Encyclopedia e Diccionario Internacional

This monster weights in at 2,34 Kg (5,15 lbs) and was harvested in April 28 in Boa Vista, state capital of Roraima, one of the Amazonian states, close to the border of French Guyana. The flying distance from the northernmost state capital of Brazil (Boa Vista) to the southernmost one (Porto Alegre) is 3,786km (2,359 mi) comparable to:

Los Angeles (US) - Washington, DC (US) - 3,714 km ( 2,308 mi).

Lisbon (PT) - Moscow (RU) - 3,905 km (2,427 mi).

Quebec (CA) - Vancouver (CA) - 3,785 km (2,352 mi)

Sydney (AU) - Perth (AU) - 3,286 km (2,042 mi)

London (UK) - Jerusalem (IL) - 3,608 km ( 2,242 mi)

Tokyo (JP) - Hanoi (VN) - 3,666 km (2,278 mi)

Brazilian mango fruit on the Guinness - (.br)

The sugar-apple (Annona squamosa) is a very common and praised fruit from semi-arid northeastern Brazil. It’s a dry, very sweet fruit, and it have a taste that recalls French d’Anjou pears, dry peaches and also kiwis. Some say it tastes like custard. Custard? No way.

Anyways, it’s perfect for a dessert after dinner and before a cup or two of Shiraz wine (the best Brazilian Shiraz are also made in northeasterner Sao Francisco Valley). The Brazilian name for the fruit is pinha-do-norte (something like “northern-pine”). Because it’s expensive for us in southern, mild climate Brazilian regions, it’s a bizarre fruit even for most of the country inhabitants and a kind of delicacy. Bellow you can see some pics of a sugar-apple being unmercifully murdered (click on the pics for a larger view).

The thing, see from above.

A closer look. The black spots indicate it’s time to kill the beast.

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