Dulce de leche en la vida argentina cotidiana
B1 Spanish hallásgyakorlat · Rioplatense spanyol · középhaladó tanulók számára válogatva
What does “sobre gustos no hay nada escrito” mean in Spanish?
When a Rioplatense podcaster explains why some foreigners can’t stand dulce de leche (too sweet) or mate (too bitter), he shrugs it off with sobre gustos no hay nada escrito — “about tastes, nothing is written.” It’s Spanish’s version of “there’s no accounting for taste”: no rulebook governs what people like, so arguing about preferences is pointless.
The saying descends from the Latin maxim De gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum (“there’s no disputing about tastes and colors”). In this episode of the podcast Trae Alfajores, it caps a run of superlatives about dulce de leche, the caramel spread so central to Argentine life that the host estimates roughly 75% of birthday cakes include it — alongside toast, alfajores, ice cream, and flan.