{"id":5858,"date":"2014-08-25T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T08:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=5858"},"modified":"2014-08-18T02:21:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T02:21:07","slug":"what-the-hell-is-a-rodizio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/what-the-hell-is-a-rodizio\/","title":{"rendered":"What The Hell Is A &#8220;Rod\u00edzio&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ol\u00e1, pessoal!<\/p>\n<p>Rod\u00edzio is a very Brazilian word and there are two basic meanings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Rod\u00edzio de comida<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.churrascariacruzeirodosul.com.br\/images\/p_rodizio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"232\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rod\u00edzio at Churrascaria Cruzeiro do Sul &#8211; http:\/\/ow.ly\/AqcOM<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A <em>rod\u00edzio<\/em> is a kind of service at a restaurant that serves all-you-eat meals, especially barbecue. You can have:<\/p>\n<p><em>rod\u00edzio de carne<\/em><br \/>\n<em> rod\u00edzio de churrasco<\/em><br \/>\n<em> rod\u00edzio de pizza<\/em><br \/>\n<em> rod\u00edzio de risotto<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In restaurants where rod\u00edzios are served the waiters go around with huge skewers of meat. Usually there&#8217;s a green or red flag you can put up for them to serve you or not. Also, included in the price there&#8217;s a full salad buffet and also desserts.<\/p>\n<p>Some example sentences:<\/p>\n<p><em>Cara, ontem fui num rod\u00edzio animal, pertinho de casa.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Voc\u00ea j\u00e1 foi naquele rod\u00edzio de pizza novo que abriu no shopping?<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Eu n\u00e3o sabia que tinha rod\u00edzio at\u00e9 se risotto &#8211; \u00e9 espetacular!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Rod\u00edzio de carros<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 495px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quatrorodas.abril.com.br\/imagens\/noticias\/040413_transito.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"287\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rod\u00edzio in S\u00e3o Paulo &#8211; http:\/\/ow.ly\/AqcS9<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In big cities they have <em>rod\u00edzio de carros<\/em>. That means that on a certain day of the week your car can&#8217;t circulate, depending on the last number on its license plate. This is done to prevent huge traffic jams (which sometimes don&#8217;t work). If you&#8217;re driving your car on your rod\u00edzio day you may get a hefty ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the endings of the license plates:<\/p>\n<p><em>Monday \u2013 1 and 2<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Tuesday \u2013 3 and 4<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Wednesday \u2013 5 and 6<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Thursday \u2013 7 and 8<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Friday \u2013 9 and 0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some example sentences:<\/p>\n<p><em>Hoje \u00e9 meu dia de rod\u00edzio, ent\u00e3o vou ter que pegar dois \u00f4nibus e um trem.<\/em><br \/>\n<em> Qual \u00e9 seu dia de rod\u00edzio?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Do you have any of these kids of rod\u00edzio in your country? What are they called? How do they work? Leave your comments and share it with our community.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"color: #555555\">Want more free resources to\u00a0<a style=\"color: #2882c1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.transparent.com\/learn-portuguese-brazilian\/\">learn Portuguese<\/a>? 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You can have: rod\u00edzio de carne rod\u00edzio de churrasco rod\u00edzio de pizza rod\u00edzio de risotto In restaurants where rod\u00edzios are served&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/what-the-hell-is-a-rodizio\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3,1,13],"tags":[379349,379357],"class_list":["post-5858","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","category-uncategorized","category-vocabulary","tag-culture","tag-vocabulary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5858"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5862,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5858\/revisions\/5862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}