Caught this Chavista/Madurista talking about food in Venezuela:

The translation is somewhat weird, bur I will explain as I go.  Toddy in Venezuela is what we would call a chocolate-flavored powder you add to milk or water to obtain something that hints as a chocolate beverage.

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Unless you liked the flavor (mostly because chocolate from Chuao was available at a decent price and that shit rocks) only poor people drank Toddy and the really poor people drank Taco which is God’s punishment for you liking chocolate.

The “diablitos” mentioned is nothing more than the good old deviled ham that we called “little devils”  for some branding reason. Again only if you had a liking for it, you’d eat that stuff (I like it, but I pay with heartburn of death so it is a yearly event.

So, during the pre-revolution times, any meal that comprised Toddy and diablitos happened in a poor household in the country. If you could not afford the pre-cooked cornmeal to make “arepas” (Venezuelan biscuit/bread) you went with cheap spaghetti which was sold subsidized for cents the pound.  “Espagueti con Diablitos” was the step above eating moldy day-old bread and then doing without food.

The Venezuelan Bernie Bro the says “The peel balls eat arepa with butter.” Lost in the translation, peel balls is literally “pela bolas” which in the Venezuela slang means be broke and poor, without coin. Here is what made me laugh about that line: Butter has always been expensive in Venezuela because it had to be imported  if you wanted to eat anything decent. We got butter from Europe that came in cans and was only to be used for the holidays and when you had people for dinner, Christmas and the such. The rest of the time, you had margarine.  Oh yes, we had locally made butter, but it sucked so bad, margarine (Mavesa and Nelly were brands we used at home) they actually tasted better.  To summarize: if you ate anything with butter back in pre-revolutionary days, you were making some money.

So our young idiotic revolutionary, managed to elevate the status of the dishes eaten by people in abject poverty and brand them as culinary delicacies only eaten by the dirty capitalists.

No wonder they have people going through the garbage trying to eat something.