Ecuador
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Ecuador
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A built-in wardrobe for storing clothes and shoes in Mexico — the space that's never big enough. No matter how many times you organize it, it always ends up bursting with stuff you don't even wear.
A carbonated, sweetened drink like Coca-Cola, Fanta, or Pepsi. In Mexico, ordering a 'refresco' is as natural as breathing — the country has one of the highest soda consumption rates in the world.
A fresh aromatic herb essential to Mexican and Latin cooking that divides humanity into two camps. Those who love it and put it on everything, and those who think it tastes like soap and pick it out of every dish.
To mop the floor with a wet cloth or mop in Mexico — the mandatory step that follows sweeping. To leave the floor shiny like a mirror so your mom doesn't scold you.
To sell something on informal credit without immediate payment, trusting someone's word that they'll pay later. It's the trust-based economy that keeps neighborhood shops alive, where the owner jots it down in their little notebook.