RICO’s Q — Alonso Calvo’s post reads, “Me disfrazaré de cremoleta. Será genial” — “I’ll dress up as a cremoleta. It’ll be great.”
The attached image shows people dressed in what appears to be a formal gathering. The joke comes from the mismatch: a cremoleta is a popular ice cream pop from Dos Pinos cooperative in Costa Rica.
So imagining someone turning up to a formal event dressed as one is deliberately absurd.
The post is brief, but its humor depends on the audience filling in the scene. Calvo doesn’t explain the costume or identify the event; the image supplies the formal setting, while the caption invents an incongruous plan. That makes the joke easy to grasp at a glance and well suited to X, where a short line paired with a visual can travel farther than a longer setup.
There’s also a playful tension in the wording. “Será genial” (“It’ll be great”) is delivered with complete confidence, as if the costume were an obviously sensible choice. That deadpan certainty makes the idea funnier: the speaker seems not to notice—or simply doesn’t care—that the outfit would be wildly out of place.
The replies suggest some readers connected the image to a specific person or political setting, but the post itself doesn’t establish that context.
It’s safest to read the core joke as a visual gag about formal dress and an absurd costume, rather than assume a more specific target. Its appeal lies in that quick contrast: serious occasion, unserious outfit, total confidence.
See the original post on X here.