Aroma Friday is a humorous saying or phrase commonly used in Latin countries, especially in Venezuela, where this phrase originated and from where many other similar humorous phrases arise.
It literally means: "Today is aroma Friday, he who has no money… does not drink." This expression is used on many occasions by office colleagues at the end of the work day on Friday afternoons, generally people usually get together to celebrate the beginning of the weekend.
In these Friday aroma meetings, they usually have a few beers at the bar closest to the workplace before going home, but if the person does not have "money" or money, they are not invited because each person is responsible for paying what consumes, that is, everyone pays their own.
Although this is the most common context, it can also be used in many other ways, since it is simply a popular saying and as with all popular sayings over time they are molded and modified.
In Venezuela it is used for all kinds of context in order to express a special day; aroma Friday, special Friday, for the beginning of the weekend and to start the days off.
It is also used in the context of going out to "rumbas" or partying, to refer to cultural days or even for adult situations, love encounters, romantic nights, meeting with friends, girls' nights, having a few drinks, etc.
Aroma friday poems
The Venezuelan author Ale Marcano wrote a poem referring to the aroma Friday adapted to the serious situation that his country Venezuela is going through.
Previously, it was very normal to wait for aroma Friday, but today and due to all the problems that the citizens of that country must face, it is no longer something at all common and those who can enjoy this are truly privileged.
Previously, aroma Friday was something fixed and safe for most of the people, but since today there have been so many inconveniences, hyperinflation, shortages, difficulties and problems that did not exist before, the people of this country have looked for ways to express themselves and among those ways they have even made poems where they relate how amazing a scent Friday was and how impossible it is now.
The poem in question goes like this:
«Aroma Friday, He who has no money does not drink, and with this situation you can not invent 'joke, Because with scarcity it is likely that he will not even eat, Also, even if it has rial, it has to make pâté cola, And pa 'can' buy 'my brother you have to flatten a lot of ball, And now it does not sell several, they sell you only one, A single bread flour and if there is milk a pan, If you visit the Chinese, bicentennial or mercal, You get a tail that you do not see the end,
The tremendous thing is that people do not know if they are going to buy, Well when they get inside the main thing is over, Government and opposition, They blame each other
And they offer no solution, They fight is for the coroto, I tell you if there is consolation, Unity does not have it or bad revolution, it comes from the God of heaven, if we unite and pray to him ».
Popular expressions in Venezuela
In Venezuela it is extremely normal to use endless colloquial expressions such as words, phrases, sayings and sayings that are not found in any dictionary; proof of this is the expression "scent Friday."
Like this popular phrase, there are many other expressions that are used daily, introduced by immigrants and that have been assimilated as their own in that country.
The Venezuelan cultural structure is a mixture of three different and predominant cultures: European, indigenous and African. Due to this transculturation, these expressions are produced over time and others arise simply from the imagination of people.
Too many Venezuelan expressions are created to express oneself colloquially, they are used daily and it is so common that many do not realize that people from other countries cannot understand them; it is something so proper and normal that everyone assumes that they are world knowledge.
In some cases, many of these expressions vary depending on the states of the country; in some there are expressions and in other states they do not know what it is, precisely because there are too many phrases of this type.
Among some of these humorous and imaginative phrases you can find:
- go to hell
- Throw the clubs
- More is the noise than the cabuya
- Sin is said, but not the sinner
- Your mother's pussy
- To each his own theme
- Son of cat hunts mouse
- Old parrot does not learn to talk
- The devil knows more as an old man than as a devil
- In old stubble there are always sweet potatoes
- War warned does not kill a soldier… and if it kills him it is because of careless
- Rooster that does not repeat is not rooster
- Hungry love doesn't last
- Coriander is good, but not so good
- The one who is born pot-bellied, or that they wrap it small
- Pull ball
- Pull rope
- Sucucho
- Guachimán
- Na guará
- École cua
- Not even to 'tie' a rooster
- Cock sucker
- I do not care
- Snobor
- Quicio
-Arepera and arepería
- Guarapo
- The tail
- Give me the tail
- Great cocoa
- Espitao
- Pigeon him
- Corotos
- Macundales
- Son of a baker
- Güevon
- Get laid
- The rice growers
- Chamo
- Corduroy
- Creole Pavilion
- Macan
- Stop me balls
- Peel balls
- Enjoy a puyero
- To cry to the valley
- Guatercló
- Strong
- Luca
- Table
-Musiu
- Leave the pelero
- Cotufa
References
- Marcano, Ale (2015). "Aroma Friday in Venezuela". Taken from poemas-del-alma.com.
- «Popular expressions of Venezuela» Taken from memorias24.blogspot.com.
- "On scent Fridays, demons are unleashed throughout Venezuela" Taken from unemploadoenguayana.wordpress.com.
- "Aroma Friday" Taken from tubabel.com.