Açucar!

The Brazilian love affair with things sweet was nicely summed up in an exchange I had yesterday.  I was making myself a cafezinho (~ espresso) the way I've come to like them here - small, black, syrupy and unsweetened.  A brasileiro looking on exclaimed "Are you having it raw?!?!", and then grimaced - I said yes, raw - and we both laughed.  Clearly it's quite un-Brazilian to have your coffee 'raw', sem açucar!!