What is the song about?

A girl tells us what she likes to eat and drink depending on the flavor and the weather. She starts with sweet things (sugar, honey, cake, chocolate), moves on to salty things (salted potatoes, cookies, bread), then to hot and spicy things (soup on a snowy day, a bit of chili), and finishes with cold things (strawberry ice cream when it is sunny). The chorus sums up the idea: there are lots of flavors and they are worth trying.

Useful words and expressions

  • Flavors: dulce, salado, picante, amargo, ácido.
  • Temperatures and textures: caliente, frío, suave, crujiente, duro.
  • Foods: el azúcar, la miel, un trozo de pastel, el chocolate, las patatas (in Latin America: papas), las galletas, el pan, la sopa, el chile, el helado de fresa, los postres, los platos.
  • Se me hace agua la boca: said when a food seems so delicious that we already feel like eating it.
  • Me quita la sed: something cold that quenches your thirst.
  • Prueba un poquito: imperative of probar; poquito is the affectionate diminutive of poco.
  • Te sabe muy bien: the verb saber also means "to have a flavor". With a pronoun (me/te/le sabe), it expresses how the flavor seems to someone.
  • Fundir(se): to melt, like chocolate in the heat.

Grammar

  • Me encanta / me gusta: the verb agrees with what is liked, not with the person: Me encanta lo dulce, Me gusta lo amargo.
  • Lo + adjective: turns the adjective into a general idea: lo dulce = sweet things; lo amargo, lo ácido.
  • Se empieza a fundir: empezar a + infinitive.
  • Me voy a comprar: near future with ir a + infinitive; the me adds a personal nuance ("for myself").
  • Querrán: irregular future of querer (querré, querrás, querrá…).
  • Si el día es de nieve, prefiero el calor: real condition with si + present.
  • Lo ácido igual: here igual means "also".

Watch out: poetic license for the rhyme

To make the lines rhyme, the lyrics use some expressions that you shouldn't copy:

  • «en este vacío» (rhymes with frío): it doesn't have a clear meaning; it is filler for the rhyme.
  • «me quema la voz»: the normal expression is me quema la boca or la garganta.
  • «me gusta veloz»: veloz is not used like this; we would say me gusta mucho.
  • «derecho a la red» (rhymes with sed): it doesn't mean anything in this context.
  • «Crujiente textura» and «de un fuerte color»: the normal word order is textura crujiente and de un color fuerte.
  • «Mi amor por los platos es condicional»: sounds strange; the idea would be that she doesn't like all dishes.