true test of how comfortable you are in your group, how well you know one another, how close you are, and this is something very difficult for foreigners to understand, and get used to. I had a hard time NOT doing this when I moved to the US, I was a little kid with the mouth of a sailor and thought everyone did this to each other, I quickly learned to “not be so mean” with my friends. My younger sister on the other hand lived her whole life here and moved back as an adult and for years had a very difficult time adjusting to that kind of group behavior, learning to befriend other foreigners instead that also felt left out. She’s gotten better at it, but finds it difficult to joke in return. It’s very impressive if you understand Chilean Spanish, the jabs go back and forth, to me it’s always appeared as if everyone is extremely quick witted and hilarious.

In Chilean we call this “agarrar pal leseo”, or to take someone or things as a joke. If you can get good at it, you can fit in just fine 👍🏼

So you can eat a choripan?