There is really no wrong time to have empanadas. I’ve known people who have them for breakfast, I’ve known others who have them for lunch. The magic of them is that you can simply measure your appetite by how many empanadas you consume: two if you’re not too hungry, half a dozen if you’re tougher to satisfy, and so on.

But hands down, the best moment for empanadas is at nighttime, when the lights go out, the friends get together, and the munchies take center stage. Even though sushi, shawarmas, and other treats have been doing their best to upstage them (especially since the delivery wars of Rappi/Glovo/PedidosYa ramped things up big-time), emps still reign supreme as the kings of the get-together (along with pizza, of course, but we’ll leave that for another day).