Ya gotta love Latinos. Even though we share the same language (except for those retrograde Brazilians and pinche indios), regional variations lead to more than a few snickers, insults and outright laughter when you get a group of us speaking our Spanish. And nowhere is the embarrassment funnier than when talking about our favorite subjects: food and sex, specifically lady bits.
While food double entendres for the male member exist in Latin American Spanish, they are unimaginative (chorizo, salsicha, gallo, etc.), Meanwhile, we've created a lexicon for words that are a foodstuff in one country but mean “cunt”–not just “vagina,” not just “yoni,” but the crassest, basest word to describe what gals possess–in another.
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1. Panocha
Its food version: a delicious New Mexico pudding (shown above) made from sprouted wheat and panocha, the name for unrefined brown sugar in most of Latin America.
Where it's used as a vulgarity: Mexico.
2. Concha
Its food version: the Mexican pan dulce being held by the tongs in the photo.
3. Papaya
Its food version: The fleshy fruit loved around the world.
Where it's used as a vaginal vulgarity: Cuba.
Its food version: Mexican version of caramel, usually made from goat's milk.
Where it's used as a vaginal vulgarity: Argentina.
5. Arepa
Its food version: A corn dough disc most popular in Colombia and Venezuela.
Where it's used as a vaginal vulgarity: Colombia, but not Venezuela. They're weird–we Mexicans don't call panochas tortillas. I'm not even going to TRY to figure this one out. The others above make some sense, at least.
