And the 3rd round of Brazilian dishes... Are you ready?

BATIDA 3 COWS

 (batida for children)

INGREDIENTS:

3 scoops of Neapolitan ice cream

1 can of coca-cola (blackcow)
or
1 can of orange soda (yellowcow)
or
1 can of grape soda (purplecow)

 

Combine all ingredients in a blender. Mix well and serve.

Children will love this shake!

 

SERVING SIZE: 3 children or one adult.

INGREDIENTS

1 kg (2lb) of pinto or kidney beans

250 g (1 cup) of cassava flour

1 kg (2 lb) variety of sausages

2 cloves of garlic, crushed

3 small sliced onions

250 g (1/2 lb) sliced bacon

2 hard boiled eggs

2 tbs of chopped green onions

 

PREPARE 

First, let 1lb of beans soaked in water overnight. It will make the beans easier to cook and make beans less gassy as well.

Drain beans and place them on the pressure cooker.

Cover beans with tap water. (Water level should be 1 inch above the beans).

Close the pressure cooker and place in medium heat.

Your beans are ready 20 minutes after the regulator starts to blow steam.

Alternatively, cook the beans in a pot for 60 minutes or until tender.

 

Strain the beans and set aside.

Place a large skillet in medium heat and fry chopped pork bacon and pieces of sausage until golden brown. Chop sausage into small pieces. Add the garlic, onions and strained beans to the fried sausages. Add the manioc meal while stirring with a wood spoon.

 

SERVE:

Remove from heat and place the beans in a large serving dish. Decorate the edges with slices of sausage, green onions and hard-boiled eggs. Serve with collard greens and white rice.

 

SERVING SIZE: 8 portions.

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Now I'm having several problems with my DSL service, so if I'm not answering to you, it's not because I don't want, but because I cannot keep my conection enough time to do it.
Now, a week and one day delayed, here comes the next post about Brazilian Yummy Cookery.
I hope you enjoy!

Quentão de Vinho

Wine Quentão

(quentão means very hot)

Ingredients:

1 bottle of wine, any kind

1 ½ quarts water

12 cloves

6 cinnamon sticks

2 lemons, sliced in thin rounds

2 red apples cut in cubes

½ small ginger

½ cup sugar

 Prepare:

Boil water, cinnamon sticks, lemon, apples and sugar for 30 minutes. Cover and let brew about 1 hour. Strains. Add the wine and serve hot.

 

Pão de Queijo

Cheese Rolls

Ingredients:

1 package dry, granular yeast or 1 cake compressed yeast

1 cup warm milk

2 tablespoons sugar

2 teaspoons salt

¼ pound butter

3 slightly-beaten eggs

2 cups grated Muenster or Swiss cheese

 
Prepare:

Dissolve yeast in warm milk. Add sugar, salt, butter and slightly-beaten eggs. Let stand 10 minutes, and then add beer and 3 cups of sifted flour. Stir with a wooden spoon until bubbles appear. Add the cheese. Cover and set in a warm place to rise. When batter has doubled in shape, cut it down with a knife and knead in another 3 cups sifted flour. Knead well and then add the extra sifted flour (from 1 to 2 ¼ cups) until you have a smooth, elastic dough that does not stick to the hands. Cover and let rise again.  Shape into butter horn rolls by dividing into portions that will roll out into rounds about 10 inches in diameter and 3/8 inch thick. Brush with melted butter and cut into 12 pie-shaped wedges. Roll up each piece beginning with the wide end, stretching dough slightly as you roll. Lay straight or in a crescent shape on a greased cookie sheet with tip underneath to keep from unrolling. Cover, set in a warm place again to rise. Brush with melted butter or an egg yolk slightly diluted with milk. Bake about 20 minutes in a preheated 375° oven. Yields approximately 48 rolls.

 

 

Quindins de Yaya

 Yaya or Iaia was the slaves’ way of addressing the young girls of the Big House, just as “Sinhá” – a contraction of “Senhora” – was used to address the mistress. The slaves also called the young girls “Sinhá Moça” which corresponds to “Missy”. Likewise, the masters were called “Sinhô” and their “Ioiô”.

The Quindim is a very sweet cupcake that was popular in the Big House of the sugar cane plantations in the North of Brazil. They were always available for either intimate meals or elaborate parties. Baked in small individual cupcake tins, such as the one for muffins, they are then inverted and served in the little paper cups frequently used in Brazil for serving many kinds of candies and cakes.

The Quindim is golden brown on top while the bottom is frozen, like gelatin.

 

Ingredients:

1 pound sugar

¼ pound butter

16 egg yolks

 

3 egg whites

1 grated coconut

Cloves

Cinnamon

Orange flower water

½ pound sifted all-purpose flour

 

Prepare:

Mix first eight ingredients very well and beat. Add flour and continue to beat thoroughly. Turn into buttered cupcake tins and bake in Bain Marie in 350° preheated oven. Yields 60.

 

 

 

 

How to recognize a Brazilian in USA?

 

 

They didn't know anything about bills until you came to the US.

 

They like Guarana better than Coke.

 

If someone tells them to be at a certain place at 1:00 p.m., they don't show up until 2:30 or 3:00 p.m.

 

They know who Xuxa and Pele are.

 

Their entire family goes to grandma's house on Sundays for a big family get together....even when those guys see each other everyday.

 

BBQ means steak, picanha, sausage, chicken wings, pork, rice, farofa, vinagrete sauce and samba.

 

They are the loudest people in the room.

 

They got a Brazilian flag hanging from your car's rearview mirror.

 

They travel to Brazil and instead of taking a suitcase with all their stuff, they take presents for the entire family, the dog, the neighbor, not to mention the old/used clothes that they take just in case someone needs it.

 

They live in Florida, New York, New Jersey, or Massachusetts.

 

They leave their house spotless when they have people coming over.

 

An ideal woman is a woman with small breasts and a big butt.

 

They understand & speak Spanish, but when they say a word in Portuguese no one understands them.

 

They can dance.

 

Their jokes are always about Portuguese people.

 

They take soccer too seriously.

 

They go to a birthday party, and they can't leave until they take that piece of cake home.

 

They know a lot about Samba and Pagode (kind of samba).

 

They have studied the history of almost every country.

 

They eat rice and beans at least 7 days a week.

 

Their breakfast consists of milk and coffee, bread with butter, ham, cheese and a piece of cake with a glass of juice.

 

Everyone thinks they're everything but Brazilian.

 

They are so used to corruption that nothing surprises you anymore.

 

They know how to play dominoes and cards.

 

They don't care about race or color. And once they come to the US, they realize what racism means.

 

They have a sense of fashion.

 

They wear slippers…a lot!

 

Their bikinis fit inside of a fist.

 

They have the “Brazilian wax” every 20 days, including legs and arm bids too.

 

They go to the manicure every week and ask to take off the cuticles too.

 

They know how to play volleyball and handball.

 

They always like taking pictures everywhere they go.

 

They invent parking lots.

 

They know what it's like to buy liquor without an ID.

 

They know how to party, and if the party isn't over after 5 a.m....it's not a party!

 

Any holiday...being it official or not, is an excuse to stay home from work and take a week vacation.

 

They dress up to go to the supermarket.

 

They spend an entire day at the beach.

 

They rarely use sunblock.

 

They talk to strangers everywhere.

 

They are too friendly.

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to Seven Castles for most of the above

INGREDIENTS

 

1 lime quartered

1 tablespoon of sugar

1 shot of cachaça *

1/2 Cup of ice cubes with water

 

PREPARE:

 

Place the lime and sugar in the bottom of a glass.

Using the handle of a wooden spoon, crush and mash

the limes. Pour the liqueur and ice. Stir well.

Add more sugar if you want.

 

SERVE

 

Makes 1 glass.

This is a summer drink to appreciate before eating.

Decorate the glass with a slice of lime.

 

 

 

Bolinhos de Bacalhau 

Codfish Balls

 

 

 

INGREDIENTS

 

1 pound dried codfish

2 tablespoons butter

1/2 cup chopped onions

1/4 cup chopped parsley

Salt and balck pepper

1 cup milk

2 cups mashed potatoes

1/4 cup all-purpose flour

3 eggs

 

PREPARE:

 

1. Be sure to remove all skin and bones from de codfish.

2. Freshening codfish:  soak large pieces in cold water for 3 or 4 hours and change water every hour.Taste to see if most of the salt has been removed. If not, gently parboil.

3. Sauté in butter with onion, parsley, salt (if necessary and pepper, flaking with a fork as it sautées. Add milk, potatoes flour and eggs, lighly beaten. Mix well, check seasoning and let stand 10 minutes. Shape into balls or cakes and drop into hot oil.

 

SERVE:

 

Hot, plain or with sauce.  You can also pour some drops of lemon juice over it.

 

 

Brigadeiro 

Chocolate fudge candy

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is right that we have the possibility to find a soul mate. Why not to work for this date to happen? It is not to start looking for it now! This union starts from us. By the moment we start an education so we can reach the best of ourselves, we are favoring this union. Therefore we become more illuminated and this fact places us in highlight so everybody can see us and admire what they see. Admiration yes! Why this thing of not wanting to be somebody who could be admirable? Without false modesty, we must love ourselves first so we’ll have love enough to give.

Where to start then?

 I consider the existence of a tripod that sustains a good relationship:

Self-esteem and chemistry:

Love for yourself and permanent investment in spiritual, mental and physical improvements. Sexual compatibility and satisfaction that leads to an unity.

 

 

Culture and mental compatibility:

Similar level of culture can keep a fluent and interesting dialog. This dialog allows intimacy and sharing of ideas. For that, a mental compatibility is also necessary. When the personality of the other fills the holes in the own and there is an acceptance of the human limitations, the link is made and a strong complicity starts.

 

 

Goals for life and independence:

You got to do what you got to do and your mate can not interfere if it’s not to add and vice-versa. A similar family orientation also helps in this case. The fact is that both need to do what pleases them for life, BUT… Thinking always as a unity and keeping also their individual lives. Moments apart mean also many news to tell. Having different circles of friendship, work and other activities keep the mistery and magic.

 

 

  It’s necessary to get to a common sense without hurting each other feelings.

 

ATTENTION!

 

NOBODY CHANGES PERSONALITY OF THE OTHER!

IT’S A MISTAKE TO TRY!

It always leads to pain and humiliation… you need to analyze from the beginning … Do you love each other with all faults? If not… This is already a red flag... You also have to be prepared to accept the faults that come up later.

 

 

A NOSSA FLORESTA AMAZÔNICA

 

 

Durante debate em uma universidade, nos Estados Unidos, o ex-governador do DF e ex-ministro da Educação CRISTOVAM BUARQUE, foi questionado sobre o que pensava da internacionalização da Amazônia. O jovem americano introduziu sua pergunta dizendo que esperava a resposta de um humanista e não de um brasileiro. Esta foi a resposta do Sr. Cristovam Buarque: "De fato, como brasileiro eu simplesmente falaria contra a internacionalização da Amazônia. Por mais que nossos governos não tenham o devido cuidado com esse patrimônio, ele é nosso. Como humanista, sentindo o risco da degradação ambiental que sofre a Amazônia, posso imaginar a sua internacionalização, como também de tudo o mais que tem importância para a humanidade. Se a Amazônia, sob uma ética humanista, deve ser internacionalizada, internacionalizemos também as reservas de petróleo do mundo inteiro... O petróleo é tão importante para o bem-estar da humanidade quanto a Amazônia para o nosso futuro. Apesar disso, os donos das reservas sentem-se no direito de aumentar ou diminuir a extração de petróleo e subir ou não o seu preço.Da mesma forma, o capital financeiro dos países ricos deveria ser internacionalizado. Se a Amazônia é uma reserva para todos os seres humanos ela não pode ser queimada pela vontade de um dono, ou de um país.Queimar a Amazônia é tão grave quanto o desemprego provocado pelas decisões arbitrárias dos especuladores globais. Não podemos deixar que as reservas financeiras sirvam para queimar países inteiros na volúpia da especulação. Antes mesmo da Amazônia, eu gostaria de ver a internacionalização de todos os grandes museus do mundo. O Louvre não deve pertencer apenas à França. Cada museu do mundo é guardião das mais belas peças produzidas pelo gênio humano. Não se pode deixar esse patrimônio cultural, como o patrimônio natural Amazônico, seja manipulado e destruído pelo gosto de um proprietário ou de um país. Não faz muito, um milionário japonês, decidiu enterrar com ele, um quadro de um grande mestre. Antes disso, aquele quadro deveria ter sido internacionalizado. Durante este encontro, as Nações Unidas estão realizando o Fórum do Milênio, mas alguns presidentes de países tiveram dificuldades em comparecer por constrangimentos na fronteira dos EUA. Por isso, eu acho que Nova York, como sede das Nações Unidas, deve ser internacionalizada. Pelo menos Manhatan deveria pertencer a toda a humanidade. Assim como Paris, Veneza, Roma, Londres, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, Recife, cada cidade, com sua beleza específica, sua historia do mundo, deveria pertencer ao mundo inteiro. Se os EUA querem internacionalizar a Amazônia, pelo risco deixá-la nas mãos de brasileiros, internacionalizemos todos os arsenais nucleares dos EUA. Até porque eles já demonstraram que são capazes de usar essas armas, provocando uma destruição milhares de vezes maior do que as lamentáveis queimadas feitas nas florestas do Brasil. Defendo a idéia de internacionalizar as reservas florestais do mundo em troca da dívida. Comecemos usando essa dívida para garantir que cada criança do Mundo tenha possibilidade de COMER e de ir à escola. Internacionalizemos as crianças tratando-as, todas elas, não importando o país onde nasceram como patrimônio que merece cuidados do mundo inteiro. Crianças pobres do mundo como um patrimônio da Humanidade, elas deveriam viver. Como humanista, aceito defender a internacionalização do mundo. Mas, enquanto o mundo me tratar como brasileiro lutarei para que a Amazônia seja nossa. Só nossa!!! ““

 

 

 

 

 

 OUR AMAZON FOREST

 

 

 

During a discussion in an university, in the United States, the former governor of the Federal District of Brazil and former minister of Education CRISTOVAM BUARQUE was questioned about what he thought of the internationalization of the Amazon Forest. The young American introduced its question saying that he expected the reply of a humanist and not of a Brazilian.

This was the reply of Mr. Cristovam Buarque:

 "In fact, as Brazilian I simply would speak against the internationalization of the Amazon Forest. Even if our governments do not have the proper care with this patrimony, it is ours. As humanist, feeling the risk of the ambient degradation that suffers the Amazon, I can imagine its internationalization, as also of everything else than it has importance for the humanity. If the Amazon, under an ethical humanist, must be internationalized, also internationalize the oil reserves of the entire world... The oil is as important to well-being of the humanity as the Amazon to our future. Despite this, the owners of the reserves feel themselves in the right to increase or to diminish the extraction of oil and to increase or not its price. The same way, the financial capital of the rich countries would have to be internationalized. If the Amazon is a reserve for all the human beings, it cannot be burnt by the will of an owner, or of a country. To burn the Amazon is as serious as the unemployment provoked by the arbitrary decisions of the global speculators. We cannot allow that the financial reserves serve to burn entire countries in the lust of the speculation. Even before the Amazon, I would like to see the internationalization of all the great museums of the world. The Louvre does not have to belong only to France. Each museum of the world is a guardian of the most beautiful pieces produced by the human mind. It’s not possible to let this cultural patrimony, as the Amazonian natural patrimony, either be manipulated or destroyed for the taste of a proprietor or a country. Not long ago, a Japanese millionaire decided to burry with himself a piece of a great master. Before this, that piece should have been internationalized. During this current meeting, the United Nations are in the Forum of the Millennium, but some presidents of countries had had difficulties in appearing because of some constraints in the frontier of U.S.A.. Therefore, I think that New York, as headquarters of the United Nations, should be internationalized. At least Manhattan should belong to all the humanity. As well as Paris, Venice, Rome, London, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, Recife, each city, with its specific beauty, its history of the world, should belong to the entire world. If U.S.A. wants to internationalize the Amazon, because of the risk of leaving it in the hands of Brazilians, we should internationalize all the nuclear armories of U.S.A. Even more because they already had demonstrated that they are capable to use these weapons, provoking destruction that was thousands of times bigger than the lamentable forest fires made in the forests of Brazil. I defend the idea of exchanging the internationalization of the forests reserves of the world for the debts of the countries. Let us start using these debts to guarantee that each child of the World has possibility TO EAT and to go to the school. Let us internationalize the children treating them, all of them, no matter the country where they had been born, as patrimony that deserves care of the entire world. Poor children of the world as a patrimony of the Humanity, they should live. As humanist, I accept to defend the internationalization of the world. But, as long as the world treats me as a Brazilian, I will fight for the Amazon to be ours. Only ours! "

Let me talk a bit about Brazil. And this is addressed also to my compatriots.

Brazil is not only the country of Amazon Forest and hot women with well built bodies.

Brazil is also:

 

1. The only Country in the world where you can simultaneously fill up the tank of a car with Gasoline, Alcohol and  next year also with Natural Gas For Vehicles. Each of those things with national technology.

2. Its going to be the first Country in the world to develop biodiesel, from a plant called mamona. Again with national technology. It will be the redemption of North East, since mamona is a plague over there. Petrobras (Brazilian Petroleum Company) is already starting to develop the productive system.

3. The most modern industries of automobile production – General Motors, Mercedes Benz and Volkswagen Trucks are here too.

4. Among other things, Petrobras is the only company in the world which has the complete technology to extract petroleum from deep waters.

5. The steel industry is working at full capacity.

6. The USA finally surrender to the quality of our airplanes (Embraer) and will buy highly specialized airplanes for the training of their Air Force.

Now the data from Antropos Consulting:

1. Brazil is the most successful country in the combat against AIDS and other sexual transmissible diseases and is world-wide example.

2. It is the only country in the Southern Hemisphere to participate in the Genoma Project.

3. In a research involving 50 cities from many countries, the city of Rio de Janeiro was considered the most solidary.

4. In the elections of the year 2000 the System of the Electoral Regional Court was computerized in all 26 States plus the Federal District of Brazil, having the results in less than 24 hours.

5. Even being a country in development, Brazil represents 40 % of the internet users in the Latin American market.

6. There are 14 Industries of automobiles installed and more 4 coming. While some neighbor countries don’t have any.

7. 97,3% of children and teenagers are studying.

8. The cellular phone market of Brazil is the second in the world with 650 thousand new habilitations per month.

9. Brazil is in fifth position of fixed line phone installations in the world.

10. 6890 Brazilian companies have the ISO 9000 quality certificate. While México has only 300 and  Argentina 265.

11. Brazil is the second biggest market of executive helicopters and airplanes in the world.

12. Brazil is the second biggest distribution of credit cards terminals in the world.

13. AmBev (America Beverage Company), also Brazilian, is the biggest company of beverage in Latin America and the seventh biggest in the world.

14. Officially, a Brazilian named Santos Dumont was the inventor of the first airplane that flied in the skies.

 

 

 

 

COMMENTS OF A DUTCH ABOUT BRAZIL:

 

The Brazilians think the whole world is better than Brazil. And it really seems that it is a bad habit to speak badly about Brazil. Every place has its positive and negative aspects, but in other countries people maximize the positive, while in Brazil people maximize the negative. Here in Holland, the results of the elections delay horrors because it does not have anything automatized. There is only one telephone company and if you complain about the service, you are taking the risk of having your telephone temporarily disconnected.

In the United States and Europe, nobody has the habit to wrap the sandwich with a napkin - or to wash the hands - before eating. In most European bakeries, fairs and butcheries, the attendants receive the money and deliver the bread or the meat with the same dirty hand. In London, there is a very famous place that sales french-fries wrapped up in newspaper - and people make a line at the door.

In Europe, non-smokers are a minority. If asked for a non-smoker table, the waiter laughs at you, because there is no separate area for people who do not smoke. They even smoke in elevators. (In Brazil the law forbids you to smoke in public places) In Paris, the waiters are known by their bad mood and coarseness. Any waiter of a tavern in Brazil could give lessons about “How to conquer a Customer".

Do you know how powerful nations destroy less powerful nations? They impose their beliefs and culture. If you have a closer look, in all movies produced by U.S.A., their national flag appears, and generally in very emotional parts of the movie.

Brazilian language has almost nothing to do with the Portuguese language, but it is called Portuguese language, anyway. Software companies around the world call it Brazilian Portuguese, because they cannot communicate with their Brazilian costumers through the Portuguese language. (Andreas’s comment about that: according to the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 signed by 7 Portuguese speaking countries it was agreed to adapt the orthography mostly to the Brazilian variation of the language.)

Brazilians are victims of crimes against their native land, beliefs, culture, language, etc. But most of the cultured Brazilians know they have many reasons to rescue their cultural roots.

 

Why this bad habit of speaking badly about Brazil?

 

Why not to be proud in saying that the book publishing market is bigger than of  the one of Italy, with more than 50 thousand new titles every year? Or why not mention that Brazil has the most modern banking system of the planet? Or that the Brazilian advertising agencies win the best and biggest prizes world-wide almost every year? Why not say that Brazil has the most entrepreneurs in the world, with more than 70% of Brazilians, either rich or poor people, dedicating a considerable part of their time in voluntary work? Why not to say that Brazil is today the third biggest democracy in the world? That even after all disgrace, the Brazilian Congress is punishing its own members, when appropriate,  which rarely occurs in other “said” civilized countries? Why not to remember that Brazilian people are hospitable, don’t spare efforts to speak the language of the tourists, make mimics and take the best care of them? Why not to be proud of being a folk who makes jokes about its own disaster and that faces its disgusts dancing samba. Brazil is a blessed country in fact. Blessed are these people, who have a way to unite all the races, of all the creeds. Blessed are these people, who understand all accents. Blessed are these lands, which offer all kinds of weather to please all people. Blessed is - beloved native land - Brazil!

 

Now, if you liked... I suggest you take a look at the following sites:

TrekEarth - Brazil - Amazing pictures of everything you can find in Brazil.

CIA - The World Fact Book - Some more information about Brazil.

 

 

 

 

Deixe-me falar um pouco sobre o Brasil. E isso vale até mesmo para os meus compatriotas. O Brasil não é só o pais da Floresta Amazônica e de mulheres fogosas de corpo bem feito. O Brasil é também:

1. O único país do mundo onde se pode abastecer simultaneamente um carro com Álcool, Gasolina e no próximo ano também com gás natural veicular. Tudo isso, com tecnologia nacional;

2. Será o primeiro país do mundo a desenvolver o biodiesel, à base de mamona. Novamente tecnologia nacional. Será a redenção do Nordeste, pois a mamona é praga por lá e a Petrobrás já está começando desenvolver o sistema produtivo;

3. As fábricas mais modernas de produção de automóvel - General Motors e Mercedes Benz e Volkswagen Caminhões, também estão aqui;

4. Entre outras coisas, a Petrobrás é a única empresa do mundo à deter a tecnologia completa de produção de petróleo em águas profundas;

5. As empresas produtoras de aço estão instaladas em sua capacidade máxima;

6. Os Estados Unidos finalmente renderam-se à qualidade de nossos aviões (Embraer) e vão adquirir aviões altamente especializados para treinamento de sua força aeronáutica.

Os dados abaixo são da Antropos Consulting:

1. É o país que tem tido maior sucesso no combate à AIDS e outras  doenças sexualmente transmissíveis, e vem sendo exemplo mundial.

2. É o único país do hemisfério sul que está participando do Projeto Genoma.

3. Numa pesquisa envolvendo 50 cidades de diversos países, a cidade do Rio de Janeiro foi considerada a mais solidária.

4. Nas eleições de 2000, o sistema do Tribunal Regional Eleitoral (TRE) estava informatizado em todas os 26 estados mais o distrito federal do Brasil, com resultados em menos de 24 horas depois do início das apurações. O modelo chamou a atenção de uma das maiores potências mundiais: os Estados Unidos, onde a apuração dos votos teve que ser refeita várias vezes, atrasando o resultado e colocando em cheque a credibilidade do processo.

5. Mesmo sendo um país em desenvolvimento, os internautas brasileiros representam uma fatia de 40% do mercado na América Latina.

6. No Brasil, há 14 fábricas de veículos instaladas e outras 4 se instalando, enquanto alguns países vizinhos não possuem nenhuma.

7. Das crianças e adolescentes entre 7 a 14 anos, 97,3% estão estudando.

8. O mercado de telefones celulares do Brasil é o segundo do mundo, com 650 mil novas habilitações a cada mês.

9. Na telefonia fixa, o país ocupa a quinta posição em número de linhas instaladas.

10. Das empresas brasileiras, 6.890 possui certificado de qualidade ISO 9000, maior número entre países em desenvolvimento. No México, são apenas 300 empresas e 265 na Argentina.

11. É o segundo maior mercado de jatos e helicópteros executivos.

12. É segundo maior distribuidor de terminais de cartão de crédito no mundo.

13.A AmBev (American Beverage Company), que também é Brasileira, é a maior empresa de bebidas da América Latina e a sétima maior do mundo.

14 Oficialmente, Um Brasileiro chamado Santos Dumont foi o inventor do primeiro avião a voar pelos céus.

 

COMENTÁRIOS DE UMA HOLANDESA SOBRE O BRASIL:

 

Os brasileiros acham que o mundo todo presta menos o Brasil. E realmente parece que é um vício falar mal do Brasil. Todo lugar tem os seus aspectos positivos e negativos, mas no exterior eles maximizam os positivos enquanto no Brasil se maximizam os negativos.

Aqui na Holanda, os resultados das eleições demoram horrores porque não há nada automatizado. Só existe uma companhia telefônica e (pasmem!) se você ligar reclamando do serviço, corre o risco de ter seu telefone temporariamente desconectado.

Nos Estados Unidos e na Europa, ninguém tem o hábito de enrolar o sanduíche em um guardanapo - ou de lavar as mãos - antes de comer. Nas padarias feiras e açougues europeus, os atendentes recebem o dinheiro e com mesma mão suja entregam o pão ou a carne. Em Londres, existe um lugar famosíssimo que vende batatas fritas enroladas em folhas de jornal - e tem fila na porta.

  Na Europa, não-fumante é minoria. Se pedir mesa de não-fumante, o garçom ri na sua cara, porque não existe. Fumam até em elevador. (No Brasil a lei proíbe que se fume em lugares públicos) Em Paris, os garçons são conhecidos por seu mau humor e grosseria e qualquer garçom de botequim no Brasil poderia ir para lá dar aulas de "Como conquistar o Cliente".

  Você sabe como as grandes potências fazem para destruir um povo? Impõem suas crenças e cultura. Se você parar para observar, em todo filme dos EUA a bandeira nacional aparece, e geralmente na hora em que estamos emocionados.

  O Brasil tem uma língua que, apesar de não se parecer quase nada com a língua portuguesa, é chamada de língua portuguesa, enquanto que as empresas de software a chamam de português brasileiro, porque não conseguem se comunicar com os seus usuários brasileiros através da língua Portuguesa.

  Os brasileiros são vítimas de vários crimes contra sua pátria, crenças, cultura, língua, etc... Os brasileiros mais esclarecidos sabem que têm muitas razões para resgatar as raízes culturais.

 

  

Por que esse vício de só falar mal do Brasil?

 

  Por que não se orgulhar em dizer que o mercado editorial de livros é  maior do que o da Itália, com mais de 50 mil títulos novos a cada ano? Que o Brasil tem o mais moderno sistema bancário do planeta? Que as agências de publicidade ganham os melhores e maiores prêmios mundiais? Por que não se fala que o Brasil é o país mais empreendedor do mundo e que mais de 70% dos brasileiros, pobres e ricos, dedicam considerável  parte  de seu tempo em trabalhos voluntários? Por que não dizer que o Brasil é hoje a terceira maior democracia do mundo? Que apesar de todas as mazelas, o Congresso está punindo seus próprios membros, o que raramente ocorre em outros países ditos civilizados? Por que não lembrar que o povo brasileiro é um povo hospitaleiro, que  se  esforça para falar a língua dos turistas, gesticula e não mede esforços  para atendê-los bem? Por que não se orgulhar de ser um povo que faz piada da própria desgraça e que enfrenta os desgostos sambando. O Brasil é um país abençoado de fato. Bendito este povo que possui uma maneira de unir todas as raças, de todos os credos. Bendito este povo, que sabe entender todos os sotaques. Bendito este povo, que oferece todos os tipos de climas para contentar toda gente. Bendita seja, pátria amada, Brasil!