Cinco De Maio

[medxam]

Just a question. Until a few years ago, how many of you celebrated Cinco De Maio, or even knew what it was? Having been raised in SC and having lived most of my adult life in NC I have been pretty sheltered. Don't get be wrong, I love to celebrate national holidays and have another excuse to drink!

medxam

 

[Arik]

I'm in Pa and we have been celebrating it since I can remember. Not every year but most of the time yes. This year no

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[tacreload]

Not til I got married on May 5th 1995.

 

[UncaGrunny]

I celebrate Mayo every time I have a sammich.

Never have figured out why America celebrates a Mexican town being (eventually) overrun by the French, but hey, I've never figured out why America celebrates an Italian missionary trying to make the Irish Catholic, either.

It's a funny world.

 

[NCTexan]

This is another manufactured holiday frenzy...

I grew up in Texas but had not really heard of it until a few years ago when it became one more marketing event. I love Mexican food and drinks but a Cinqo de Mayo restaurant or bar is the last place you'd find me today.

99% of the country probably thinks this day celebrates Mexico's indepence from Spain.

In my opinion... this is just a Saint Patrick's Day running on tequila.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

This is a holiday that has always had limited celebration in Mexico. It's really hard to understand it's widespread celebration here in the USA.
As stated above the best explanation is probably it is a manufactured celebration. Probably promoted by the folks that would benefit the most the beer and tequila companies.
The French commander at the battle of Puebla have a wooden hand. He was French foreign Legion and he had lost an arm and a previous engagement. So we had an artificial hand so that he could hold his horse reins.
He was killed at the battle of Puebla but the French recovered his wood hand.
That wooden hand is now the French Foreign Legions most prized artifact.

 

[Arik]

Originated by Mexican American communities in the American West during the civil war.

I don't really care. I'm about as Mexican from Puebla as I am an Irish man from Dublin. Yet I celebrate both. Why not? It's fun

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[Erich]

An exchange in a case I recently briefed:

Snitch: "Cinco de Mayo was on the Fourth?"
Prosecutor: "I would assume it was on the Fifth."

 

[Aticus]

I do not and never have celebrated Cinco de Mayo. I also don't celebrate St. Patrick's day.

 

[ejeli]

May 5th 1864 was the Battle of the Wilderness, one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War.
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[6thtexas]

Cinco de Mayo is celebrated as it is proof positive that even Mexico can whip France.

 

[sipowicz]

I celebrate every year by not turning in my gardner.

 

[NCTexan]

By the way... yesterday was Star Wars Day!

"May the Fourth Be With You..."

 

[italiansport]

I think at the very least for Cinco de Maio they'd get Santa Anna's wooden leg out of that museum display in Illinois and have a parade with it to the nearest bar!
Jim

Captured Leg of Santa Anna, Springfield, Illinois

 

[shouldazagged]

No, but I do, very quietly and privately, observe the Day Of The Dead.

 

[mudcat100]

No, but I do, very quietly and privately, observe the Day Of The Dead.

Grateful?

 

[Grayfox]

Its just an excuse to get drunk for people who don't really need one.
It means nothing to me.

 

[therevjay]

Sure I love "Cinco de Mayo" and St. Paddys day and any other excuse to drink beer!

I worked with a guy who had lots of relatives in Ireland and they told him St. Patricks day wasn't nearly as big a deal in Ireland as in the U.S.

I suspect Cinco de Mayo is the same in Mexico. Actual Mexican independence day is Sept.17th.

St. Paddy by the way was a Brit not Irish.

 

[kozmic]

An exchange in a case I recently briefed:

Sounds like the snitch had a fifth before he showed up!

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

Cinco De Mayo?

Never heard of it. I like Hellman's.