Hot pepper in Mexico that comes in thousands of varieties. The foundation of all Mexican cuisine and the ingredient that makes you sweat but you can never quit.

A group of neighborhood friends or an organized street gang, depending on context. It can be innocent among kids or dangerous when talking about real pandillas.

A plot of land where corn, beans, and squash are cultivated together in Mexico and Central America. It's the ancestral Mesoamerican agricultural system that fed entire civilizations and is still alive in rural areas.

Disorder, a tasteless joke, or total lack of seriousness in Mexico and Central America. When nobody takes things seriously and the situation turns into chaos where everyone does whatever they want without consequences.