identifying a thingy

[STUDMUFFIN]

this came into my possession recently and wondering if it is for tea or drug use. please could someone identify it. it is perforated at the end
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[STUDMUFFIN]

ps, excuse my dirty fingers etc but i have been concreting

[golach]

A Marrow bone spoon, maybe?

[John Little]

Sort of thing you might suck wine up through without getting the lees in your mouth.

[Spongeboab]

it's a bombilla, i saw a similiar one in an ethnic shop in edinburgh years back and had to ask what it was

[Kodiak]

I had to look up what a "Bombilla" is and by the pictures I found, that is exactly what it is. Here is a Pic of a Bombilla that I found on Google. :-

http://i56.tinypic.com/hvt8r9.jpg

[Dog-eared]

It's for drinking Mate, a kind of roughly chopped herbal tea.

[golach]

The Org is fascinating, with it power to deliver answers

[starfish]

but what is a bombilla used for

[Kodiak]

but what is a bombilla used for

Simply a Bombilla is a Metal Straw with a filter at one end. This enables you to drink liquids, ie tea made from loose leaves, and not get a mouth full of tea leaves as they are filtered.

[Phill]

If you found it in your neck of the woods I would definitely say summit to do with drugs, very dodgy characters where you are!

[STUDMUFFIN]

thank you everbody and i found it in your garden phill lol

[George Brims]

It's definitely for mate, S American tea. I have a colleague here whose mum is from Argentina and he drinks it all the time, though his preferred implement is a modern plastic insulated mug with a plastic straw. He had a great time once trying to bring loose leaves he bought in bulk through US Customs on his way back from visiting his cousins.

[oldmarine]

This has been a very interesting thread. Now that I have read all the comments I'm not certain I know what it is. Guess I'm getting too old to know what it's all about.

[George Brims]

What the thing does is filter your tea so you don't choke on bits of leafy stuff. Mate is made by putting about a tablespoon of what looks like dried oregano in a mug and adding hot (not boiling) water. You then sip the resulting tea through the bombilla. The tiny holes at the spoon-looking end do the filtering.

[Bazeye]

What the thing does is filter your tea so you don't choke on bits of leafy stuff. Mate is made by putting about a tablespoon of what looks like dried oregano in a mug and adding hot (not boiling) water. You then sip the resulting tea through the bombilla. The tiny holes at the spoon-looking end do the filtering.

Thats not what I'd use it for.

[John Little]

What would you use it for? :O

[Bazeye]

What would you use it for? :O

Why, stirring my tea, of course.

[_Ju_]

Others have already answered you. It's for Yerba Mate. Once I visited an agentinian teaching ship and they gave us some yerba mate to taste. It is very refreshing if quite strongly flavored ( no surprise, the glass was filled with 1/3 chopped vegetation!). They two ways of drinking the tea without chewing it: one was a straw incorporated to the side of the glass, which brought up liquid from the bottom and the other was one of these things you have aquired, studmuffin.