"Chimi" or "chimichurri"

It does not matter if you say "chimi" or "chimichurri" in Argentina because everybody would understand you and also everybody would know that you are asking for a sauce.

Chimichurri is a very seasoned sauce which is mainly made from parsley, oil, vinegar, garlic, and salt, although those spices are not the only ones which you can use to make of, you can also add oregano, pepper, thyme, bay leaf, onion...

Normally, this sauce is used with roast, in order to highlight the taste of meat.

Probably, you are thinking: "What is it interesting?" so, keep reading....

There are two different theories on the etymology of the word "chimichurri"

First theory:

The first theory is that the word chimichurri comes,believe it or not, from the British.

I will explain how it can be possible:

At the beginning of the XIX c,Englishmen were prisoners by the British invasions of the Spanish colonies and those who were in prison asked sauces to season foods, but they had problems to communicate with the Spanish, so they decided to mix both languages, this mixture provided : "che-mi-curry" instead of "give me curry" and through an evolutionary way, the word "che-mi curry" has evolutioned in "chimichurry".

The second theory focuses on James McCurry whose diminutive is Jimmy Curry, an English merchant who invented this sauce. However, Argentines decided to hispanicize his name to "Yimi Churry".