your tio cuco still wears zapatos de charol.

If you call fruit of the looms, chones, you might be a mexican.

If you're afraid of the dark because of something called CuCuy - you might be Mexican.

If carpet adorns the dash of your pickup and you like the fringed look, you might be a mexican.

If your idea of a bumper sticker is a sticker of a brahma bull on your trucks door, you might be a mexican.

If you drive in the left lane of the expressway at 30 mph, with your left turn signal on continuously, and then you suddenly drift over and exit to the right at the last possible moment....oh, and the license plates from Tamaulipas are obviously a clue as well

If you have ever referred to bandaids as "curitas", you might be a mexican.

If you prefer steel ornaments on the toe and heel of your boots, and your boats are pointed at the toe, then you are most definitely a real mexican.

If the color of your boots matches the color of your belt, or they are made out of the same fake alligator skin in a coral color, your are a mexican to the bone.

Classic guys. Now that I live down here, I understand what you are talking about. Keep 'em coming....

If boxing ranks as one of your top sports, you might be a mexican

If most of your immediate family lives with a few blocks radius of your house, you might be a mexican.

If you prefer your Lay's potato chips with tabasco sauce and limon, you might be a mexican.

If you've ever lumped a huge spoonful of wasabi onto your chinese food thinking it's guacamole....

If you recycle bacon grease for use in other recipes, you might be a mexican.

If you refer to snow cones as raspas, you might be a mexican.

If your are familiar with a product called Brillcreme, then you are an old school mexican. (big smile)

If your favorite brand of cookies is not Nabisco but instead Gamesa, then your are most definetely a mexican.

If your name is
Francisco but people call you Paco or Pancho
Luis but you are called Wicho
Guillermo but people call you Memo
Salvador but your friends call you Chava
Gerardo but your homies call you Jerry
Jose Maria but you are known as Pepe
Vincente but people call you Chente
Jesus but they call you Chuy........but no matte what your mom and dad call you Mijito or Hijito.....

Then your are a mexican that is keeping it real.

If your Grandma has candles with pictures of saints, or veladoras lit around the house, and she has crosses made out of palm leaves above every door in the house, and she recycles jam jars, Don Marias Mole jars, or other glass containers to use glasses....then you might just be a mexican.

If you can run and play any sport while wearing chanclas (sandals) ....Mexican status!

If your late Tio left you a van and you turned it into a taco vending business, Yes, you're a Mexican.

If you pronounce words beginning with the letter "S" by putting an "E" in front of it, (estop instead of stop), big time Mexican.

If you call a chair, a sher, you got it.... Mexican.

If you have ever hurt yourself and your mamacita rubbed the area while chanting, "Sana, Sana, Colita de rana....." You're Mexican, big time!!!

If you have your last name in old English lettering anywhere on your car, truck, or tattooed on your back! . Yes, you ARE a Mexican (proud one too).

If you refer to your wife as your ruca, your hina, your wifa, your old lady, or your vieja, guess what? Not only are you a Mexican, you're a cholo.

If you throw a "Grito" every time you hear Vicente Fernandez, then not only are you a Mexican, but you are a drunk Mexican.

If you have ever been pinched in church and been told "pobrecito de ti si lloras" or "Vas a ver orita que salgamos." Yes, you're definitely a Mexican.

If you grew up being called "chamaca or chamaco" ...Mexican.

If you grew up scared of La Llorona, or fear the dark because of El CuCuy! Yes! Mexican!

Si te persinas with a lotto ticket in your hand before every drawing. You're in the Mexican Zone!!!

If you constantly refer to cereal as "con fleys" or cake as "kay-ke". You're a Mexican.

If you use manteca instead of vegetable oil and can't figure out why your rear-end is getting bigger......You might be a Mexican.

If you have some Tias that dress up in their prom dresses to go to a birthday party at "el parque". You are a Mexican.

If your Tias and Abuela dress up in their Sunday best with heels and all to go to the "pulga." (AKA the Flea Market) Then, yes, you are a Mexican.

If most of the houses on your block are painted bright pink, mint green, and lavender. Mexican.

If you use the bushes in front of your house, the fence, or the top of an old car to dry laundry. Yes, you're a Mexican.

If you're congested and your mamasita rubbed "Bicks". You're Mexican.

If weddings in your family can last for several days, and you go through several "conjuntos", then your are a mexican.

MarylandAG - where are you getting these lines? They are freakin' hilarious.

I'm mexican Matt, it's my childhood. The long post above is the only one I did't come up with, I had to "borrow" that one.

If you see no problem taking your baby out in public in nothing but his/her diapers, you might be a mexican.

If you refer to beer as "vironga" (sp?) and cigarettes as "frajos" (sp?), then you are most likely a mexican.

you bring 15 kids under the age of 10 to a birthday party

If you can talk spanish flawlessly, but you can't read it or spell to save your life, then your are most likely a mexican-AMERICAN!

And you take a plate home from that B-day party then your are a mexican.

If the boys/girls dad or tio breaks out with the quarters when they break the piñata, then you know you are a mexican party, and you could safely bet that the "pastel" is a pastel de tres leches, before you even see it.

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If you refer to that birthday party as a "pachanga", and all the men are still drinking from the keg long after the party is over, then you know them mexican is keep it real.

If your vehicle has two or more shades of paint or the hood is a different color than the rest of the vehicle, and the vehicle is barely driveable but it has a state of the art stereo system in it, then your are a true blue mexican. (Big Smile)

If you refer to frankfurters as "winnies", then you might be a mexican.

If the pharse, "this gentlemen is completely inebriated" is totally foreign and means nothing to you; however, the phrase "Ay este vato anda bien pedo, wacha!", makes complete sense to you, then not only are you a mexican, but you are a mexican that didn't pay attention to the "ticher" during english class.

If you have more than one battery in your car, and it is not under the hood, but in the trunk, and your car has an airbrushed painting of the Virgen de Guadalupe or Selena, then not only are you a mexican, but you are straight up thug mexican.

If you have no problem eating beans for breakfast, and think it strange when people look at you funny for eating beans at breakfast then you most probably are a mexican.

This happened to me the other day -

When you go into a pet store and noticed you can put dogs down on layaway - you might be a mexican (or maybe that's just the RGV?)

If you believe that eggs have medicinal properties, and you have at least one tia, that knows the ritual for rubbing the egg all over your body, and then cracking it in a jar of water to place under your bed, as a method to ward of a fever, then you might be a mexican.

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If you have no problem eating beans for breakfast

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Breakfast burritos are the best!

"If you drive in the left lane of the expressway at 30 mph, with your left turn signal on continuously, and then you suddenly drift over and exit to the right at the last possible moment....oh, and the license plates from Tamaulipas are obviously a clue as well"

The poster has to be from the Valley. The only folks in the world (myself included) who call a highway or freeway "the expressway" and he spelled Tamaulipas right!!!. Excellent!!!

The other thread that Maryland Ag started about this was also classic.

You might be Mexican if:

You compare the difficulty of getting either an inspection sticker or the registration renewal to a space shuttle mission, both require about the same amount of planning.

You might be Mexican if when the cops show up to quiet down your hold over from the party drunk uncles, it turns out you are 4th cousins twice removed from the cop and he agrees to stop by after his shift.

You might be Mexican if you drive to the beach with a life size inflated Barney tied to your roof and a huge BBQ pit in your open and tied trunk.

You might be Mexican if any midnight mass you attend on Christmas eve ends with a rousing rendition of of the ever popular hymm "Feliz Navidad"

You might be Mexican your horrified at the thought of corn anywhere but in a cup (with mayo, butter, chile and lime of course)

You might be Mexican if you know that "Tio Lucas" is not your relative.

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the ever popular hymm "Feliz Navidad"

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It was tradition for the 8th grade band to play this at the christmas concert. Sigh... memories.

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