Argentine national mixed drink: Italian bitter Fernet Branca poured generously, topped with Coca-Cola over ice. Bittersweet, herbal, and the default order at almost every porteno bar.

Fernet Branca arrived with Italian immigration in the late 1800s. The mix with Coca-Cola was popularised in Cordoba in the 1980s by students cutting the bitter Italian amaro with the cheaper local cola, and spread nationwide through the 1990s. Argentina is now the world's largest market for Fernet Branca and the drink remains the bar-default of porteño nightlife; Branca operates an Argentine bottling plant.

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