in Africa, Rio de Janeiro would be Angelina Jolie. Cariocas (Rio locals) love adopting our vocabulary.
Shopping, surfing, happy hour, old school, self serve, Big Mac. These are all part of the everyday speech of a Carioca.
Here’s my favorite: Cheeseburger. Let me explain.
They keep the English cheeseburger, but pronounce it with a Carioca accent--Sheesh-burger. Coincidentally, the letter X is pronounced sheesh as well. So, naturally, they write X-burger on their menus.
My usual is a X-Tudo (a sheeshburger with everything). Two buns, meat, lettuce, bacon, an egg, tomato, onion, and potato flakes. Mmmmm. Sheesh.
Sometimes before I get a X-Tudo, I say, “I’ve got some sheesh to do.” Well, no one’s usually around so I just think it. It gets me through the day.
It’s normal to pay around R$2 for a sheesh. That’s roughly 80 US cents.
The best place to have your sheesh done is a podrão. Podrão is slang that literally means “The Big Rotten”—mainly because of their dodgy ingredients. Bascially, a Podrão consists of any person grilling meat on the street. It can be a trailer. It can be a kiosk. It can be some dude with hot coals and tin foil. They all speak the sheesh-language. so either way there will be meat in your buns. (that's what sheesh said)
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X. What kind of meat are they putting in those dodgy sheesh-burgers on the street? Sounds like a price performer, but if you could get a "dentro e fora" you would be golden. What kind of sheesh do they put on a sheesh-burger?
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"That's what sheesh said." Whatever helps you to sleep at night, Bob.
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