You know your spanish when....
You put your clean pots in the oven for storage
Your mother keeps a can full of recycled cooking oil
on or near the stove
Your relatives take photos and videos at a wake.
You have to say "bendicion" to your grandmother /
mother / aunts when you come in and before you leave
Your grandma's couch is covered in plastic even though
it's older than you
You call all cereal "con flay"
You call any sneaker "tenis"
You can't leave a party without taking home a plate of
food
Your grandma makes you put on slippers because walking
around barefooted will make you get sick
You need that piece of cake before you leave the party
You found out about a Saturday party on Wednesday
"La Correa" or "La Chancla" were used to discipline
you
You have those huge wooden spoons on the wall
The biggest pot in the house is burned from all the
rice cooked in it
You blast the music at 8am to clean the house on a
Saturday
The whole family gathers around and stands still in
front of the video camera at a wedding, baptism, or birthday party and just smiles like its a regular camera.
You set up a "hamaca" whenever your family goes to the
park
You are older than one of your uncles or aunts
Your Mom has two sets of dishes and bed sheets: One
for everyday use and the other for "cuando llege visita"
Your mother keeps the rice in a big green soda-cracker
can and instead of a scoop inside , it`s a tea cup with a broken
handle
You go to a birthday party and your friends that
couldn't go are asking you to bring them back some food
Your mom / tia / abuelita has a ceramic elephant on
the living room table
Your favorite dish is pegao
You have an aunt who sells pasteles on the side
It could be 100 degrees outside and your mom is
cooking pernil inside in the oven.
You put "kachup" on white rice and pasteles
