Across countries and continents, the Hispanic community is made up of hundreds of millions of people, each bringing their own unique culture and traditions. But despite the differences, there’s a lot everyone can relate to.
A great sense of humor is one of them.
You’ll find proof of that on the Facebook page Hispanics Be Like, where memes capture the everyday moments, family quirks, and jokes that bring people together. We’ve collected some of the funniest ones below—let us know which ones made you laugh out loud!
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I haven't even seen our paletas y elote guy since this ICE nonsense began. I don't really even know him, but I'm still worried.
this is my mom. I'm sweating like a prize fighter and she's just saying "this isn't that spicy" and she's 1/2 syrian and 1/2 german-french-canadian. Tastebuds of iron.
One of my friends lived in China until she was around 8. If she says something is hot I won't touch it with a 1000 foot pole since she grew up on authentic Schezwan Chinese food and says "it's not really that spicy."
Load More Replies...It's a slang term that refers to young Hispanic girls/women of a certain stereotype. It's sometimes used in a derogatory manner. Usually they are girls who run with the gangs (usually as girlfriends of the gang members and not directly gang members themselves) and usually dress in a certain way. Usually their eyeliner and lipliner/lipstick are dark/bold and they wear gold jewelry, usually ostentatious/large (especially earrings.) A lot of the times they were baggy jeans, crop tops/halter tops, and flannel shirts over that. At least, that's how my family members in Los Angeles dressed when I was growing up in the 90s XD None of them were gang members, but it was a trend/fashion to dress that way if you were a young Hispanic lady in Southern California back then.
Load More Replies...He should be offering up a platter of Mexican Food.....winner winner Mexican Dinner
Why? Why should a Mexican super hero be serving food? Should captain America ask him if he wants fries with that?
Load More Replies...He should be charged with a felony. ICE is just enforcing the laws of our country.
Targeting people with jobs, homes, and families. D**g traffickers don't tend to take up residence and find work.
Load More Replies...My mom and aunts would put the mattress on the floor and some of us would sleep on that and others on the box spring.
You guys got to sleep on the mattress? XD Us younger cousins would get a single couch cushion parceled out to us XD And yes, yet another cousin would be sleeping on the now-cusihonless couch, too... painful af XD
Load More Replies...I hope they cut out a section of that shirt for the little pink tail.
It's a Mexican Mr. Buttons! (My bf had a boss who, at a Christmas dinner at work, who wore a too tight shirt and I sat opposite the boss at the dinner table, seriously fearing the buttons would fly off the shirt and into my eye or something. My bf and I called the boss Mr. Buttons from then on. Never to his face, though).
I removed the A from the end of my name in my professional world for this reason alone 😂
I think those are Japanese chopsticks - Chinese are usually not pointed on the end (or at least they were when I learned to use them
You're correct - both Chinese and Taiwanese chopsticks tend to be blunt on the end. My ex (whom I was with for 24 years) is Chinese.
Load More Replies...When I first landed in China, they were waiting to teach me to use chopsticks. I've used chopsticks for decades but accepted their kindness. They did comment that I picked it up very quickly. Then I switched to my left hand and it was a whole new game. If my right hand can do it, my left can pick it up pretty fast.
I've never been to China, but my parents insisted we eat Chinese food with chopsticks. I still do to this day, and am proficient with either hand. To me, the food just doesn't taste right from a metal utensil.
Load More Replies...For context: there was a video clip that went viral of a tourist staying in Puerto Rico. He was asking about sprays to make the "noisy frogs" be quiet.
We’ve started to get Jarritos sodas here in the UK and OMG they are awesome!
In my family (Southern California Mexican-American), every adult was allowed to discipline every child if they saw the child doing something naughty/bad/wrong, whether or not that child was literally their child or not. In other words, you not only had to watch out for your mom smacking you with the chancla, but also your tías and your abuelas. I remember once when we were at my tía Bert's house and I decided to pick some lemons off of her lemon tree (which was not allowed.) I thought I was safe, I thought I was in the backyard alone. Next thing I know, Bert's chancla comes flying out from the general area of the sliding glass door leading into the house and hits me on the back of the head XD SOMEONE is always watching and ready with la chancla!
The tias have eyes not only on the backs of their heads, but also floating around in the air. We had a birthday party one year at abuela's house and I remember one of the primos teasing abuela's dog. I don't even know where the chancla came from....thin air.
Load More Replies...He'll wear that like a feather in his cap but don't egg him on.
Load More Replies...My bisabuela in Los Angeles had chickens. When we would go visit her, I would always try to pet them, and they would always chase me XD I was terrified of them for a few years! (I was very small at that point.)
This term basically means "badáss woman" or "strong woman" or "motherfúcker" (as in the kind of woman you don't fúck around with.) It comes from the root word "chingar", which has real meanings, but in slang it means "to fúck". (Hence the phrase "chinga tu madre".)
My Hispanic friend once noticed how cold I was to his mom. He asked why don't I think she's so nice. His mom even asked why I was barely civil and how it's rude. I mentioned why, "miss Rodriguez? I was 8 snd going door to door selling popcorn for cub scouts and you pepper sprayed me as soon as you heard 'hello I am selling....' so yeah I do not see you as a good person to be around but I do not want to risk it again." So many heads turned to her because she told them she used it on a big angry man.
Load More Replies...Hilarious! I am currently brushing up on my Spanish, so it hit me particularly hard.
Load More Replies...They are! I had someone in America send me some in a Christmas goodie-package (I sent her some Christmas cookies and sweets from Denmark) and those gansitos..... wow! I actually had tears in my eyes when I had eaten the last one. 😢 😁
Load More Replies...A Thai friend once explained that while my American heat scale ran to five stars, her's ran to twenty.
Come to New Mexico and you have the option for both everywhere you go! We refer to it as “Christmas.”
My mother loves menudo, but hates the tripas (tripe). So whenever we'd go to one of my tía/tío's houses and some relative had made a big pot of menudo (which was basically every time..) my mom would get her bowl, and then pick out every piece of tripas and put it in MY bowl XD So basically she would eat flavored hominy (corn) with no tripas XD
I'm white, but was adopted at birth into a Mexican family. I learned Spanish right along with English. My cousin, who is a biological member of the family, is one generation younger than me and refused to learn a single word of Spanish. It always struck me as odd, especially since we live in Southern California, where Spanish is pretty much a second language for everyone XD
I've taught Spanish to latinos who didn't learn at home because their parents wanted them to integrate in the US more quickly so they'd never speak Spanish with them. Kinda the same phenomenon
Load More Replies...It's dangerous and needs to end. A LOT of broken teeth from the goddam mordida, and sometimes the cake has these little skewers inside to keep the structure. Worth a thought.
OMG, that's all my husband talks about. And rather hard to find here in France. 😂
My family would talk about you if you WEREN'T ugly XD I had some brutal tías!
Oh those concha cookies!! I bought the special press and then lost it. Dang. They are so good
They're not cookies XD Properly made, they're a pandulce (sweet bread product.) Concha cookies aren't traditionally Hispanic.
Load More Replies...Coffee with hot milk and buttered soda crackers. All it's missing is the piece of cheese we put in the coffee to melt it for the cracker.
Anybody know what a UK substitute for the cracker biscuit thing might be? This sounds wonderful.
Load More Replies...Most of these "Mexican" things apply to all of Central America. Some of these were pretty funny though
Most of these "Mexican" things apply to all of Central America. Some of these were pretty funny though
