Today on Beaner How it's Made: The Chancla.
The chancla has been used since the age of the mighty Aztecs to punish criminals and misbehaving children. After the age of colonization this household footwear weapon has been consistently used by geriatric women with way too much strength for their age with tactical precision, so much so that its name alone inspires fear in the minds of Joses and Miguels everywhere. The chancla allows people to walk around showing their disgusting deformed toes while at the same time technically wearing shoes, the perfect marriage of not actually being barefoot while also getting dirt and grime on your feet anyways.
First we import some rubber harvested by starving child slaves in the Congo, idk which one but it doesn't really matter. Why is the rubber not grown and harvested in the americas by starving child slaves? because economics says fuck logic.
The rubber is then melted in a big vat with some other chemicals your neighbor is probably getting high on tonight. This helps to give it strength and elasticity, which it will need when your abuela uses it to beat the everloving shit out of your pre-teen ass.
This magical mixture is then pressed and molded into a useable version of itself, something which most latinos will never experience. Straps of the cheapest and coarsest fibers ever are added, so that it gives you blisters between your toes for no fucking reason.
The finished chanclas, now known as slippers, are then shipped off to the US to be used by fat, balding, middle-aged dads and coked up dudebros who somehow got through college. These are then imported back into the country they were made in with a fancy label and a 10x price markup, ready for your abuela to buy one in 1965 and then keep using it to physically assault generations of children...