Boycott "Cinco de Mayo"

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[Monk Dimittis]

Fed up with the Mexican illegals and their supporters, many of whom are Mexicans also (those who didn't support the illegals were rather quiet)?

Boycott Cinco de Mayo. Stay away from everything Mexican on May 5th. Don't buy Mexican beers.

[x1stcav]

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[BostonianRightist]

Don't buy Mexican beers.

Why would anyone buy Mexican beer in the first place?

[Chi-townChief]

In other words, it will be "Nada Chicano" Day.

[hispanarepublicana]

What's to celebrate? How difficult is it to defeat the French in battle anyway?

[Theo]

Mexican immigrants are fine. It's the illegal immigrants that are not fine. Let's not boycott an entire country because of the actions of illegals.

Just my opinion....

[timsbella]

This one could really send a message as to what a boycott looks like.

[timsbella]

ROFL!

[FerdieMurphy]

[ContemptofCourt]

Modela, which makes Corona, is 50% owned by BUD. Is it still considered a mexican beer?

Do I have to give up tequila, too?

[sionnsar]

Mexican immigrants are fine. It's the illegal immigrants that are not fine. Let's not boycott an entire country because of the actions of illegals.

Some legals around here went out in support of the illegals.

[383rr]

" Don't buy Mexican beers"

I'd rather purchase a glass of toilet water. I don't like mexican food, either. So, I guess I won't have a problem with this.

[sionnsar]

Do I have to give up tequila, too?

For a day?

[D1X1E]

How difficult is it to defeat the French in battle anyway?

LOL Thanks for my first smile of the day.

[stopem]

If you need a reason to drink celebrate on our 4th of July American Holidays honoring America is a reason to celebrate!!

[sinkspur]

Boycott, boycott, boycott.

Boycotts are silly and never work.

[Danae]

I was just saying to someone in the grocery store.. "What the hell IS cinco de Mayo? I mean really it's MEXICAL Independence day right? What the hell do I care about Mexican Independence day? When I was young and in my clubbing (yea yea, we were all young once) days, it was just an excuse to get ripped on Corona!" Ooooh Beer with a lime in it! I MUST have it! </shaking head>
And that, in a nutshell is it. Mexico is an excuse to get drunk. So that being said, Bridgeport IPA is really nice! So is Sam Adams Boston Lager.

[stopem]

Cinco de mayo, is a mexican holiday not an American holiday and should never be celebrated.

[ContemptofCourt]

You missed the point, but that's OK. (see sinkspur's post)

[girlscout]

Boycott "Cinco de Mayo"

I prefer Miracle Whip anyway... can't stand real mayonnaise.

[Chi-townChief]

Negra Modelo is very good, comparable to Dortmunder, but Corona tastes like they just took whatever spoiled beer they could find and then just stuck their label on it.

[CatoRenasci]

Don't forget, that was in the 1860's, when the French still had a military reputation! French military incompetence did not fully bloom until the Prussians knocked the stuffings out of them in 1870-71 and during the First World War. The French had a mutiny in 1917 that was so bad there were regiments which were classically decimated (meaning 1 in 10 was executed). And, of course, it all went downhill from there. The French haven't won a war at all since WWI and, since for all of Napoleon's victories he was ultimately defeated, they haven't won a war without help since the time of Louis XIV - except against natives.

[ErnBatavia]

We all know the secret ingredient to Corona anyhow...

[jackbenimble]

Modela, which makes Corona, is 50% owned by BUD. Is it still considered a mexican beer?

Isn't the other half owned by the Mexican wife of the American Ambassador to Mexico?

Does the fact that the American Ambassador is married to one of the richest women in the country where he is supposed to be representing OUR interests seem like an unacceptable conflict of interest to anybody else besides me?

[george wythe]

Cinco de Mayo is an American holiday, like St Patrick's.

I was co-opted by the hospitality industry and the beer manufacturers a long time ago.

[after dark]

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo. Eat french food. It is time for the french to reclaim their lost territory.

[mnehrling]

If it wasn't for Cinco De Mayo, everyone south of the Rio Grande would be saying "We We" instead of "Si Si".

[mnehrling]

I wonder what would have happened if the French won? Maybe they would have sold Mexico to us too?

[CatoRenasci]

Indeed, in the US, Cinco de Mayo is essentially an excuse for a party, like Bastille Day (in liberal cities), Guy Fawkes Day St. Patrick's Day, Columbus Day, or the Glorious Twelfth of July.

Mexican beer tends to be pretty good, because of all the German immigrants in the 19th century who brought tradition German beermaking techniques to Mexico. Probably the best is "Bohemia" - a real Pilsner-style beer which you don't see here too often - and, of course, the classic to be drunk with lime, salt and tequila is "Tecate". Dos XX had a vogue in the '70s, when full-bodied beer was virtually unobtainable in the Western US and, of course, Corona has been a yuppie beer of choice for 20 years or more. (I was never impressed with Corona)

[djl_sa]

I'm boycotting boycotts.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

How difficult is it to defeat the French in battle anyway?

Speaking of which, did you ever do a Google search on "French Military Victories"? Try it and see what you get.

[org.whodat]

Let's not boycott an entire country because of the actions of illegals.

Well just how do you tell the twelve stinking mexican families that own and control all most of the property in mexico that they have to help their own people and not dump them on the USA.

[ArmyTeach]

That sounds fair, but how do you make that distinction? And the inability to make that distinction will render your boycott, well, toothless.After all, the boycotts here in the states and in Mexico were aimed at our economy at at 'gringos.'

[mnehrling]

I would rather drink a DosXX or Corona than a 'Bud' any day. Not because of any political statement but because, IMHO, most big brewery American beers taste like wet cardboard.

I believe I'll find a microbrew on Cinco De Franco.

[AbeKrieger]

Beter yet, every time you engage a service company, book a hotel, make restaurant reservations, etc... ask them if they can verify in writing that they do not employ any illegal aliens and all workers are in this country legally. If they will not, explain to them that you will not use their services.

If every American did this it would go a long way to solving this problem from within.

[hispanarepublicana]

I'd much rather it go back to Spain. During the French occupation down there, a couple of French snuck across the border into Texas, and the two tried to rape my great great grandmother. My great grandfather and his brothers, who were in the barn working, heard her screams, and they dealth with the French appropriately. Two trees were planted in the spots of newly-loosened dirt so that the family would never forget.

[after dark]

Poor Mexicans would have been better off if the French had won.

[mnehrling]

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/victories.html

[MissAmericanPie]

I don't know why we don't have the "Great American Walkout", no one go to work, no one buy anything at all, nor eat out, or buy gas. Stock up and just take a two week vacation at home, until we see a fence start up at the border, and around D.C. j/k, and the deportations begin.

[after dark]

I'm sorry about your great grandmother. I do know some confederate generals who had escaped the tyranny of reconstruction tried and failed to keep the french in power.

[hispanarepublicana]

It would be an interesting motion picture if someone produced one based on "What if" the French or Spanish had kept control.

[showme_the_Glory]

There is something wrong with beer that needs fruit added to be able to drink it.

[hispanarepublicana]

Beer shouldn't have fruit added to it, and televised sports shouldn't have commentary added to it.

[Liberty Valance]

[afraidfortherepublic]

If Modela is based in Mexico it cannot be 50% owned by BUD. Mexican law prohibits their companies to be more than 49% foreign owned, a fine point usually missed by journalists who "report" on such things.

IOW, Modela is a Mexican company with a large US investor.

[sionnsar]

I was co-opted by the hospitality industry and the beer manufacturers a long time ago.

You were? Pray tell!

[sionnsar]

I'm boycotting boycotts.

I'm boycotting boycotts of boycotts.

[reelfoot]

Instead of tacos or fajitas, I'll have an American steak with french fries. At an American restaurant. With American workers.

[stacytec]

Well stated. Creating hostility to all things Mexican is not the answer to illegal immigration, it only gives the commies more PR ammo to portray the movement as one of ethnic hatred rather than one of immigration and national identity.

[TEXASPROUD]

September 16th is Mexican Independence Day, May 5th is celebratin the battle of Puebla.