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Chivito

Chivito

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⚠ IT CONTAINS NO GOAT. Chivito means "little goat", and the usual account is that a visitor in Punta del Este around 1944 asked for roast kid, the restaurant had none, and sent out a thin beef steak in a roll instead, keeping the name. It has since accumulated: churrasco, ham, mozzarella, bacon, fried or boiled egg, lettuce, tomato, olives, pickled peppers and mayonnaise, in a bun — or as CHIVITO AL PLATO, the same without bread and with chips and salads. Uruguay’s national sandwich and a genuinely twentieth-century dish.

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Languages: Spanish

What is recorded

  • Chivito means "little goat" and the dish contains none. The usual account places its creation in Punta del Este around 1944, when a customer asked for roast kid and was served beef in a roll instead. It is a twentieth-century dish and its elaboration into the current sandwich is later still. probable
  • The chivito is created in Punta del Este — traditional account, undated in any contemporary record — when a request for roast kid is answered with beef in a roll. probable

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