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Biscoito Globo com mate gelado is a signature dish of Brazil; we have verified places to eat it in Rio de Janeiro. Start with where to eat Biscoito Globo com mate gelado in Rio de Janeiro.
Biscoito Globo is a polvilho (manioc starch) biscuit made in Rio and sold by vendors on the beaches and streets, paired with iced mate, the drink the city has sold on the sand since about 1950.
Diário do Rio traces Biscoito Globo to 1953, when the brothers Milton, Jaime and João Ponce learned to make polvilho biscuits from a cousin in São Paulo. They sold them in Rio from 1954 and in 1955 named them for the Globo bakery in Botafogo that hired them; in 1963 they partnered with Francisco Nunes Torrão. Iced mate followed around 1950: vendors already sold a home-made iced infusion from drums on Rio's beaches, and Matte Leão then launched its own iced version.
Where to eat Biscoito Globo com mate gelado in Rio de Janeiro: the editor picks
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