: ⚖️ 4/10 - ’Chivito’ 📍La Forta, Parque Santa Teresa, Uruguay 🇺🇾 💰 $280 Uruguayan Pesos (£7) ~~~~~~ I know what you’re thinking: “shut up Xandwich, no one followed you for an insight into your personal life, as if on Snapchat - why not revert back to writing your hilarious sandwich reviews instead of pestering the 🐈 you stalk on the streets?” Ouch. But fair point. The ‘chivito’ is something I stumbled across in Uruguay and it’s pretty much a lot of things in bread - comforting but defunct of any jazz hands 🙌🏼 ~~~~~~ 🍞 : White bap. To be honest, rather pleasant. My expectations were lower than Barry White’s bass note, or an acne-ridden, pubescent teen’s self-esteem, so perhaps it would have been hard not to please me. Nevertheless, fresh and bouncy. ~~~~~~ 🍗: I asked the bloke serving what a ‘chivito’ is actually comprised of and he began to list quite literally every ingredient under the ☀️: beef, ham, 🍳 , 🧀, olives, 🍅 and lettuce. Really, a concoction of items. ~~~~~~ 💭: Despite the colourful picture and the picturesque flat plains of the Uruguayan outback, the chivito didn’t offer much. On a rotten comedown and hanging lower than a granny’s pair of knee-knockers, it would have been comfort food to the max - and perhaps if it had been executed better, too. The steak was tough, the ham was saltier than a tonne of ‘Maldon Sea Salt’ and I didn’t vibe how it looked like an upside down smiley ☹️. That said, the egg was funky (in a good way) and the bread was a delight. ~~~~~~ I’d love to find one of these in London on the street food scene because as of yet I’m unaware it exists. To my South American followers: hook a brother up with your recommendation in the comments below. El Xandwich ha vuelto a casa, bébé 👶🏼
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