Originally Posted By DAR Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Cinco De Mayo a holiday that holds special meaning for Mexicans and Mexican Americans, that has been taken over by the Corona company.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Cinco De Mayo>> Well thank you!! We just love how an entire country as well and many other folks celebrate our anniversary every year. This year was #29. What did we do?? What else? We went to a Mexican restaurant and partied down!!
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<What else? We went to a Mexican restaurant and partied down!!>> As is probably apparent from this fractured sentence... <<We just love how an entire country as well and many other folks celebrate our anniversary every year.>> LOL ;-)
Originally Posted By Lisann22 In honor of my ancestors and relatives in Mexico, we had italian tonight. ;>
Originally Posted By Elderp We sort of celebrate it right. I had a cheeseburger at Del Taco. I also had a chicken taco.
Originally Posted By fkurucz <<Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Cinco De Mayo a holiday that holds special meaning for Mexicans and Mexican Americans, that has been taken over by the Corona company.>> Not a big holiday in Mexico. Basically a bank holiday. In my 12 years in Mexico City I never saw any celebrations of any kind. Flag day, Constitution day, Mother's Day, Benito Juarez's birthday, Revolution day, Lady of Guadalupe Day, Oil Expropriaion Day, May Day (labor day), Independence day (sept 16), all of Holy Week (Palm Sunday through Easter), Christmas, New Years are all much bigger holidays in Mexico than Cinco de Mayo. Most people work on Cinco de Mayo.
Originally Posted By fkurucz I also recall some Mexican beer commercial from 15-20 years ago (I think it was Corona) trying to get Americans to celebrate Sept 16. The ad even pointed out that sept 16 was Mexican independence day. It fell on deaf ears.
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 Ya gotta love holidays that masquerade as cultural observations but are really corporate-sponsored promotions of the consumption of alcohol. Cinco De Mayo. St. Patrick's Day. Memorial Day. What insincerity. What a crock. <<I also recall some Mexican beer commercial from 15-20 years ago (I think it was Corona) trying to get Americans to celebrate Sept 16. The ad even pointed out that sept 16 was Mexican independence day.>> WAIT A SECOND!!! CANCEL WHAT I WROTE ABOVE!!! September 16 is my birthday! Viva Mexico! Viva cerveza! Viva la fiesta de mi cumpleanos!
Originally Posted By fkurucz Funny thing about Mother's day in Mexico is that it isn't a legal holiday(in Mexico, unlike the US, legal holidays are PAID holidays by law). In Mexico Mother's day is alway May 10, and is perhaps the day of greatest absentism of the year. My Dad owned an injection molding shop In Mexico City and offered double pay to his workers to not skip out on Mothers Day. Absentism was still about 30% that day. No problems on Cinco de Mayo however.
Originally Posted By fkurucz <<Viva Mexico! Viva cerveza! Viva la fiesta de mi cumpleanos!>> Sounds good to me
