Jenny Craig, seriously, don't come to Buenos Aires

It's no secret that my sister and I had planned to, and are happily partaking in, Buenos Aires' liquid offerings. I mean alcohol. And sometimes water. From the tap. Which made me sick. While out enjoying our beers and such in cafes and bars, though, we have noticed an alarming trend: no one in Buenos Aires is fat. Huh, the fact is alarming mainly because people here eat ALL THE TIME. Seriously. Every single time you sit down at a place, even for a coffee, the waiter puts a little snack on your table. Sometimes, it's a few cookies with the coffee, or with beer, its usually potato chips or popcorn. (you usually get a tiny little glass of orange juice with your coffee, too, but that's not what I'm talking about right now) So, no one is fat, yet they're daily injesting enough carbs to stuff a horse. It is just little bites, as the pictures below show, but the people here eat every bit. My sister and I usually don't even touch it, not because we're watching our weight, but mainly because we're pretty sure the snacks on our table had a previous life on another table. Here's another oddity: people here hardly drink. They have A beer and then call it a night. So, imagine a bar full of sober Argentinians, pan over to drunkey Jen and me on beer two. Then, the bartender comes over and gives us our third, untouched helping of popcorn, as if to say, eat up drunkies, you don't want to fall into a pothole on your walk home. Below is a sample of some of these delicious snack offerings...