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motomataru

- You demand pigao with your rice.
- You know what punchline is coming when someone says, "Llegué en mi Dodge..."
- You can identify all fifteen types of verduras under your salt codfish stew.
- You come to a one-year-old's birthday ready to party it up.
- The only time you don't eat chicken with rice and beans is when you eat rice and beans with chicken.
- You accept that driving in Puerto Rico is the struggle for dominance between three groups: the reckless, the clueless, and the hapless. BONUS: you automatically switch to the most opportune of these groups at every moment in a rapidly evolving situation.
- You have a dicho for every occasion.
- You happily consume mondongo and morcilla, even knowing what they are made of.
- When someone calls you a yal, you cover the ears of the small dog riding in your purse.
- You have plantains and chickens out back. BONUS: you can't scrub out that stain where plantain sap dripped on your skin.

adlin20

Lmao!!! So true!!!

Specially the peguao!!!

ReyP

You know a Puerto Rican by his/her "Mancha de Platano"
Lets not forget eating Cuajo, also pig feet in your beans
Most things are good in Escabeche, incuding green bananas, fish, octupus, carucho and others.

No decent Boriqua, would turn down pegao.

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