A couple of weeks ago I heard someone talking about chistes verdes. I did not know what that expression meant, but I gathered from the way it was said it meant off-color jokes, or dirty jokes.

What little research I did on this phrase (I have to admit I really did not want to find out too much information) it seems to be a universal idiomatic expression. Are there other words that express the same thing? Does every Spanish speaking country use this expression?

We are having a shortage of certain food products in Argentina right now. The price of sugar has gone up considerably and stores are limiting how many bags of sugar (and now other products) a person can buy. This is called an escasez. The paper today says because of a shortage, escasez, there will soon be limits on dairy products too.

Canoso is grey-haired or white-haired. It is an adjective that describes a person, therefore it can be masculine or femenine; i.e., canoso or canosa.

Today in Argentina all the gas stations shut down and would not sell gas for 4 hours. This was a nationwide ban on the sale of gas in the country. According to the newspaper the gremio of the gas producers is who put the ban on the sale of gas. Gremio is a union. Gremio can also be translated as guild.

Pochoclo is the word used for popcorn in Argentina. It seems to be uniquely used here. In the rest of Latin America (as far as I know) the word for popcorn is palomitas.

A chancho is a pig. This seems to be a uniquely Latin American word. Another common word for pig is cerdo.

I saw the word furgón in relation to a train boxcar, but it can also be used to mean semi-truck trailer. An armored car is a furgón blindado.