metate

Question

I have a spanish bingo game that shows a picture of what looks like a short table with a roller on top of it. It is labeled "metate." Can someone explain what this is'

Answer 1

It is a pre-hispanic kitchen tool used to ground corn (or other grains) to make tortillas etc.

Answer 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metate

metate.

(Del nahua métatl).

1. m. Guat. y Méx. Piedra sobre la cual se muelen manualmente con el metlapil el maíz y otros granos. En España se empleaba para hacer el chocolate a brazo.

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Answer 3

Where I live in Mexico the metate is still very common, especially among the indiginous population. It is a small, slanted, stone table. The stone roller is used to grind and work the soaked corn into dough for tortillas.

Answer 4

I cannot explain this game but you posted it to the wrong forum. I have changed it to General Discussions.

Answer 5

Eddy, metate seems to be a word though. I dont know it myself, lets see if somebody has heard of it.

Answer 6

It is definitely a word and this site shows the stone table with the stone roller on top. They must have given this game the name of "metate" because it looks the same as the real thing.
[url=http://images.google.co.uk/images'q=metate&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title]Metate[/url]

Answer 7

In Guatemala and Salvador and Mexico is a square stone tablet to grind corn.
La loteria is the name Miss Elena is talking about, is similar to bingo,except that no numbers are used, pictures are used instead. A cryer calls the pictures, like metate or la mesa and if your card contains the pictures called out by the cryer, you marke them on your card just as you would mark the numbers on your bingo card called out by the bingo cryer.