Chinga Mexico.
Budweiser Holiday
One could sing La Marseillaise on Cinco de Mayo.
I’m looking forward to May 4th myself.
May the 4th be with you!!!
The other kwanzaa ... hilarious!
Cinco de Mayo is mostly an American thing. Mexicans aren’t all that interested in it.
Best movie to commemorate the 5th is Two Mules For Sister Sara.
If Sammy Davis,Jr.,had to choose, would,it be Kwaanza, Chanuchah, or Chawaanzichaa?
A that just for defeating the French?
My grandmother could defeat the French.
Kind of like us celebrating the 12th of February because Arsenio Hall was born that day.....I’ve always considered Cinco de Mayo to be just another way for the Mexicans to spit in our face....
And unlike Kweenza, it is based in a real event.
Ustedes están calientes.
Most likely Corona Beer commercials started this nonsense.
I play in a bridge tournament and the finale party is on May 5th.
I’ll be wearing my U.S. BORDER PATROL hat.
Whoops shoulda read your whole post, you got the Corona connection.
Cinco de Mayo is an excuse for Americans of all ethnicities to drink margaritas and eat guacamole. Which is fine by me.
>>How did this footnote in Mexican history became a symbol for all Spanish-heritage peoples in the U.S.? The hell do we know. I think it has to do in part due to the idiocy of pigeon-holing all “Hispanics” within a Mexican framework, in the false narrative that all of us of Spanish heritage are a homogeneous demography. In part also due to how gullible the general public is to marketing campaigns who cleverly invent gimmicks such as these to sell lousy beer.<<
Beg to differ. Cinco de Mayo is easily pronounced by Gringos and was created as an excuse to sell lots and lots of beer. Like “Secretaries Day” and “MIL Day” and “whatever Day” for cards and flowers but bigger.
The reason Corona stinks is it is in a clear bottle that gets easily turned in sunlight. That is where that stuid lime came from — to cover the skunky taste.
Related note: In the Mexico tequila culture, Jose Cuervo is a curse word and rightly so.
Drinko de Mayo
It’s just a drinking holiday. Nothing more.
It’s like complaining about St. Patrick’s day, and there is virtually nothing realistic about any aspect of it other than St. Patrick was a real person, was made a saint, and he was in Ireland t some point.
It is a minor observance in Ireland, and is used by Irish people in America as a day of “pride”, which I suppose if getting p*ss drunk helps that, then whatever.