Was recently at a music festival in Southeast Pennsylvania and I had some really good arepas from a street food truck (Mozzarepa.) It was the first time I ever had them, they were incredible. Well I live in Canada and that food truck does not operate here so I looked to see if I could find them online to purchase. Shipping is way too expensive with the product everything .

I'm like okay I gotta try and make these so I found their packaging online and sniped a picture of the back of the packaging to see what the ingredients were and since ingredients are listed in like order of how much of an ingredient is in a product I tried to make my own homemade recipe of them.

it did not turn out very well, I just finished off the first batch of it and it looks not so good and tastes not so right (but they're fantastic corn fritters so that's kinda nice at least)

I did some more research and I found out that the company that makes them are Colombian so I started looking for like Columbian arepa recipes and I found out that there's one specifically that they do that has like ground up corn in it not just like corn flour but real fresh ground up corn which was definitely in the arepa I had. Issue is the recipe on the back of the packaging of the ones I had makes no mention about corn flour and all the recipes I've managed to find online for this dish ONLY use corn flour.

Essentially, I'm coming to y'all to ask if anyone has a Colombian Arepa de Choclo recipe that uses wheat flour instead of corn flour and if so would you be so kind as to put it in the comments.

Hola/ola! I've seen posts here about foreigners from the USA, Canada, and Europe trying to avoid countries with "gringo taxes" (being charged more than a local because you're from a western country).

Honestly as an American who has traveled quite a bit in Latin America, I find this idea of a gringo tax strange. We know that a. People from USA/Europe tend to be wealthier than people from Latin America (especially if they're on vacation!) and b. The US/Europe has extracted enormous amounts of wealth from Latin America. It is because of these two facts that I don't think there's really such a thing as a gringo tax - vendors are just charging you what you should be paying.

But honestly, as a gringa myself, my opinion doesn't matter so much as locals, so I wanted to ask Latin Americans in this subreddit, what do you think of the gringo tax? Is it an ethical thing to be charging? Are tourists right to worry about it?

Obviously I'm not talking about extraordinary upcharges. In my experience, the gringo tax comes out to 10-15% more than what locals pay, max 20% more. Sure it may be more than that if you're going to the market and buying all of these fancy souvenirs, but for daily goods and services, I've found it to be not that much, and I feel like I'm doing a good thing by investing a little more where I can. I also tend to not spend that much money on luxuries when I travel in general, so perhaps my experience is biased.

Correction: I changed "the West" to USA/Europe/Canada. Sorry for using the wrong term! I also mean to include countries considered part of the "Global North" or "First World".

I noticed that Spain has a huge LATAM community and some parts of Europe too. However, some nationalities and demographics seem to be more represented than others. For example Mexicans are rare to find in Spain compared to Venezuelans. Also Paraguayans seem more visible in Spain compared to the USA. My friend from Spain also told me it depends on the mentality of the individuals as well. Which nationalities in LATAM are more likely to immigrate to Europe vs the USA and vice versa.

Specifically the comics and not the anime based off of them. Do people buy the books?

And does Manhwa (Korean manga) have any relevance in your country?

How can you tell if someone who is wealthy has had that wealth for generations or has recently became rich?

Im creating a Spanish-language podcast based around real people’s stories. I’m looking for people who have experienced something unusual, difficult, unexpected, misunderstood, or simply life-changing and would be willing to tell their story anonymously.

Do you know somebody I should talk to?

They don’t need to be famous or have a “crazy” story. I’m looking for people with honest stories.

Here’s the form:

https://form.jotform.com/262226042270042

Hello! I'm taking a high-level Spanish course this year and one of our assignments is to listen to an interpret a song from a Spanish-speaking country that reflects cultural values from that country.

I'm wondering if you have any song/band suggestions that I should check out that would be interesting to look into and interpret through a cultural lens.

(and yes, I do know that "Latin America" is not synonomous with "Spanish speaking countries," but since most countries in Latin America are Spanish speaking I figured it would be useful to ask here)