Local specialties like vigor?fried pork skin and yuca, a popular roadside meal around Granada) and nacatamales (corn tamales stuffed with meat and wrapped in banana leaves) are worth trying as well.
At one point, we stopped for a roadside lunch of camel meat: delicious but tough.
Each year back home, he collects three or four dead deer from the roadside, carving off the meat for venison steaks and burgers.
Those old homes grace a deeply rural landscape of former one-room schoolhouses and roadside stands selling Boer-goat meat.
We found consolation in skewers of grilled llama meat from a roadside stand and in the sight of those same lovely animals.
"After it turns color, people won't buy it," Mr. Zhang said, adding that roadside snack vendors buy unsold meat at a discount each evening.
Roadside stalls sell crisp, delicious lakror (meat or cheese filled pastries) and rotisserie chickens for under a pound.
At La Cumbre, just outside La Paz, the driver stops a moment by a roadside kiosk to hurl chunks of meat at a pack of snarling hounds and sprinkle alcohol across the bus tyres.
Winding through the hills, the surrounding forest enclosed the road in a verdant canopy, with roadside kiosks sprouting out of it to sell empanadas (meat and potato-filled fried pastries), mofongo (mashed plantains filled with meat and vegetables, served in savoury sauce) and beach towels bearing graphics of bikini-clad women.
Much of the wit, such as it is, can be found on roadside billboards that read "God loves golf," "Eat meat," and "A is for apathy, B is for boredom, and C is for clinical depression".
