Locro
A hearty stew of squash, corn, beans, and beef.
History & cultural context
📝 This cultural/historical write-up is newly researched and pending manual review — treat it as a helpful draft rather than confirmed, final text.
Locro is a hearty corn-and-squash stew with roots in Indigenous Andean cooking traditions, later enriched with meats and other ingredients introduced during the colonial period. It's strongly associated in Argentina with national holidays, especially May 25 (Revolution Day) and July 9 (Independence Day), though the exact process by which it became linked to these occasions isn't precisely documented. Similar stews are eaten under the same name across other Andean countries, so it's best understood as part of a shared regional stew tradition.
General ingredients
A high-level look at what goes into Locro — the exact order and combinations are the puzzle you solve in the game itself, so they're deliberately not listed here.