an interesting sub story has emerged from simpatia é quase amor's parade - carnival folklore has it that during one particular year, a fraction of drunk revelers accidently split from the main group of the march having become disorientated.

after noticing what happened a few more sober members from the block shouted, 'what s@*t is this? the parade is going that way!' - which, roughly translated into portuguese goes like this: 'que merda é essa'.