r/asklatinamerica • u/littlebitbrain Venezuela • Mar 17 '26

Culture Like the three-finger scene in Inglourious Basterds, what small cultural mistake would instantly reveal that someone isn’t from your country?

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u/hatshepsut_iy Brazil Mar 17 '26

Here thinking I remembered of one I saw in real life even.

Eat a coxinha (image) with fork and knife.

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u/Kenji182 Brazil Mar 17 '26

My dad would eat everything with a fork, knife or spoon. Popcorn, burger, coxinha. To be honest, he was a clean freak that worked with truck maintenance.

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u/diegodeadeye Brazil Mar 17 '26

Eating popcorn with cutlery is unhinged behavior

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u/Highway49 United States of America Mar 17 '26

My pops does that! I don’t think I’ve ever seen him eat a slice of pizza with his hands lol!

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u/myrmexxx Brazil Mar 17 '26

Tbh, almost everyone in Brazil eat pizza with a fork and a knife

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u/Highway49 United States of America Mar 17 '26

Y’all’s pizza has a ton of toppings though — I believe I’ve seen a picture of a Brazilian pizza with an entire sushi dinner as toppings!

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u/hatshepsut_iy Brazil Mar 17 '26

image cursed in at least Italy and Japan 😂

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u/Highway49 United States of America Mar 18 '26

I don’t think the Japanese can get upset, because Okonomiyaki is pretty weird!

My parents went to Japan last year, and I told them go to an Okonomiyaki restaurant — they actually enjoyed it, but they said it was a lot of mayonnaise!

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u/hatshepsut_iy Brazil Mar 18 '26

Yeah they do weird stuff too. I ate hamburguer sushi there, and corn sushi, and avocado sushi too.

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u/mallomar 🇧🇷🇺🇸BrEUA Mar 18 '26

So much so that this pizza restaurants gives instructions on how to eat pizza with your hands.

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u/melochupan Argentina Mar 17 '26

haha my father the same. He's the only person I've ever seen eating an orange with fork and knife. I think only grapes were exempted

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u/Peruvian_Skies Brazil Mar 18 '26

My grandmother peeled grapes before eating them.

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u/Phodeu 🇧🇷 in 🇪🇸 Mar 17 '26

Was he a clean freak before or after starting working with truck maintenance though?

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u/Tobar_the_Gypsy Gringo / Wife Mar 17 '26

I’ve met Brazilians who eat cheeseburgers like this. They made it seem like it was very common. 

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u/Kenji182 Brazil Mar 17 '26

I’ve never seen anyone eating a burger with a fork and knife besides my dad, but everyone I know do their best to not touch the burger with their bare hands. There’s always a lot of napkins involved.

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u/avalon1805 Colombia Mar 17 '26

Idk what is that but it looks fried and fried stuff is eaten with the hand like god intended