¡Bakan! and the Boca Chueca

¡Bakan!- this is slang in Chilean for 'ultra cool'
I checked out some stuff about Rico's mission online and it looks really ¡Bakan!. It's fun to read about the food, the culture (I guess they're really into soccer) of the place that Rico will be serving in for two years! There's this funny story about te Boca Chueca that I put at the bottom of the post, but the food also sounds cool. I found out from this www.joeskitchen.com/chile website written by an RM that for Chileans, the first meal of the day is small and usually consists of bread which is sometimes bought from a bread salesman that travels around the neighborhood. whoa. Chileans will top their bread with jelly or a delicious caramel-like topping called manjar. Yum, manjar.
The largest meal of the day is usually lunch with a siesta, and then "Once"
"Once" is a light meal that is eaten between 4 and 7 in the afternoon. Often times this is a repeat of breakfast; with bread and sandwich toppings with some tea or coffee- kinda like High Tea at the Randolph Hotel.
Tradition has it that long ago men that wanted to drink their liquor, or "aguardiente" in Spanish, during the time of day that is now "Once" invented a code to hide the fact that they were drinking at 5:00 in the afternoon. This code was the number of letters in "aguardiente" which is eleven or "once" in Spanish. With the passage of time, tea time became known as "Once."

Also, there is another story from this missionary, he writes: My favorite Chilean legend is the Crooked Mouth or Boca Chueca. Legend has it that if you drink or eat something hot then immediately go outside into the cold, your mouth will be jerked to the side of your face and will be stuck. The opposite is also true where you can drink something cold and go outside into the hot sun.
Are gringos affected by the Boca Chueca?

On several occasions, we'd be drinking some hot herbal tea or some cold fruit juice. Upon finishing, we'd get up to leave and our host would stop us and say that we couldn't go outside yet. We'd ask why and they would explain that we would get the boca chueca. When we were with friends we'd often run outside anyway, returning with our jaw and lips moved to the right side of our face pretending to have received the boca chueca. However with all joking aside, I never really got the boca chueca.
Who really gets the Boca Chueca?

After playing our little joke on our Chilean friends, they would always sternly warn us that the boca chueca wasn't a laughing matter. They always new someone that had a friend or family member that really did get the boca chueca. However, in my two years in Chile I never met anyone who actually had the boca chueca happen to them.

Could it happen to you? I don't know, but don't say I didn't warn you!

Fun!!