Street Vendor · Corn & Ginger Drink
Chilate
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The corn for chilate is toasted before grinding, which gives the drink a faintly smoky, coffee-like undertone despite having no coffee in it at all.
A hot drink made from toasted ground corn, water, and fresh ginger, lightly sweetened and served in gourds or cups from street carts in western Honduran towns, often paired with a sweet fried snack.
Why it's made this way: Chilate is rooted in Lenca and western Honduran highland tradition, and Copán's rural towns near the Guatemalan border keep the drink alive as an everyday market staple.
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