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Tell me you're from San Antonio without telling me you're from San Antonio

By San Antonio Current Staff on Fri, Aug 6, 2021 at 5:04 pm

There's no shortage of ways to tell if someone hails from San Antonio. Eating tacos for breakfast, for example, or breaking into the chicken dance at weddings. These identifiers are just a few of the unspoken ways to tell if someone is a true San Antonian.

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“Flour or corn” may be the most important question you answer on any given morning.
Photo via Instagram / jesselizarraras

You have collected every Selena shopping bag H-E-B has ever released.
Photo via Twitter / Adriana_Acosta

You can't eat barbacoa at any establishment that doesn't also offer Big Red.
Photo via Instagram / alanisgood

The only thing that allowed you to shake your grudge against Charles Barkley was realizing that you hate Kawhi Leonard even more.
Photo via Twitter / BrianRayy_

You long ago stopped wondering, "Were those fireworks or gunshots?"
Photo via Twitter / PuroSanAntonio

You’re willing to eat street food at Fiesta with your hands moments after using one of the porta johns.
Photo by Jaime Monzon

Friends have explained that the Ghost Tracks aren’t supernatural, but you refuse to believe them.
Photo via Google Maps

You have fallen asleep on the couch only to be awakened by an Americus Diamond commercial.
Photo via Twitter / dylangonzalez21

You’ve tubed down the river with an ice chest full of beer.
Photo via Instagram / andrewfisher7

You’re psychologically scarred by la chancla.
Photo via Twitter / BeiingColombian

You can recite the entire script from the Selena movie word for word.
Photo via Warner Home Video

You sing along to “Hey, Baby, Que Paso?” anytime it comes on the jukebox.
Photo via Twitter / Blue_Bridge_Rob

You understand that if you’re eating Mexican food outside of Loop 410, you may as well be eating it in Austin.
Photo via Instagram / worldheritagesanantonio

You know what a Marbach mop is.
Photo via Twitter / lilnee789

You make snap judgments about people based on where they went to high school.
And, let’s face it, at least 60% of the time they turn out to be correct.
Photo courtesy of Northeast Independent School District

You’ve driven home from a New Year’s Eve party and had difficult seeing through all the fireworks smoke drifting over the road.
Photo via Twitter / Joeycules