How to know you're a 100% Cuban
1. - You grew up scared of something called el "COCO".
2. - If you know the meaning of "no da pie con bola".
3. - If other tell you to stop screaming when you are really talking.
4. - If you're ever left grass for camels on the night of January 6th instead of cookies and milk for Santa on Christmas Eve.
5. - If you light a candle on the night of the Lotto drawing.
6. - If dinner usually consist of rice, beans and some kind of meat.
7. - If you have ever used your nose or lips to point something out.
8. - If you ever drop food on the floor, picked it up, ate it after saying "lo que no mata engorda."
9. - If you constantly refer to cereal as con flei.
10. - If you're ever gone outside your house with rolos y chancletas.
11. - If you are ever been hit with a correa.
12. - If you know your mom is sneaking up on you because you hear the "clock?clock" of her chancletas.
13. - If your mother yells at the top of her lungs to call you for dinner even if you live in a one?room apartment.
14. - If you can get to your house blind folded because of the smell of chuletas is so strong.
15. - If your house has all of those little figurines that take up every inch of space on/under the TV and you have
either one of the following: a porcelain cat, coqui, or elephant in your living room.
16. - If your mother, tia, or hermana's hair is black cherry "sun in", red, or a burgundy that would make "Celia Cruz" jealous.
17. - If you can dance merengue, cumbia, and salsa without music.
18. - If you use manteca instead of olive oil and can't figure out why your butt is getting bigger.
19. - If you just can't imagine anyone not liking Spanish food.
20. - If you've been in a two?passenger car with seven people in it, with a person shouting caben mas.
21. - If you call your sneakers tennis.
22. - If you have at least thirty cousins.
23. - If you consider platanos to be a food group.
24. - If you live in Guashington Heights, or even know where it is.
25. - If you are constantly comparing things here to things in Cuba and affirming Cuba's was better.
26. - If your family reunions consist of all types of food, music and lots of people and screaming.
27. - If your uncle owns more gold than the jewels shop down the street.
