Originally Posted by
cubbie
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As for another poster's comment about Argentinian beef seeming to be easier to digest, this reminded me of a comment in Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle expressing sheer awe at the amount of beef an Argentinian gaucho consumed in a typical day. When I get this book out of storage (I'm slowly working my way through the 30-some boxes of stuff I shipped home from Chile), I'll find this quote and post it.
The recent Bourdain No Reservations show on Argentina had a very descriptive bit with gauchos talking about the necessity drinking a lot of mate if you eat a lot of beef (and no veggies). Beef and malbec alone apparently caused major digestive problems.