Today… is Cinco de Mayo.

And to any readers of mine of Mexican descent, let me once again assure you: I feel your pain.  No, really, I do: I happen to be almost pure Irish-American, so I am intimately familiar with the way that America can appropriate a cultural holiday and turn it into a booze-soaked bacchanalia. Not that this is such a bad thing, really: at least it means that your particular ethnic/cultural group is assimilating on schedule.

Still, no, I’m not going to get drunk tonight on tequila and start shouting phrases in what I fondly consider to be Spanish.  No, I’m just going to stay home and sober.  Because I’m a giver that way.

13 thoughts on “Today… is Cinco de Mayo.”

  1. As my Mexican-American co-worker (born in America, moved back to Mexico and then moved back to America) said, this ‘holiday’ is just Gringos looking excuse to get drunk.

      1. This isn’t even a day of note in Mexico. Just in America, and just an excuse.

  2. Dinner tonight is grilled hot dogs, with guacamole and colby jack cheese, wrapped in a flour tortilla. I’m trying for the essence of Cinco de Mayo.

      1. There were a few in the guac. Could have dealt with a few more, both for taste and texture. But I should have heated up the tortillas first, that would have helped more.

        I’m not a big fan of hot dog buns, usually use whatever’s on hand.

        1. I typically do horrible things to hot dogs, largely because I learned that you can nuke ’em in the microwave for the kids and that knowledge is insidiously evil.

          1. Nuking a box of store brand mac and cheese, and chopping up a few hot dogs to put in it in the end is insidiously evil. Evil, evil bachelor chow.

            Nuking some hot dogs for your kids is merely your way of expressing your love for them, by getting dinner on the table as quickly as possible.

            And when I say grilled, I mean “threw them in the Proctor Silex knockoff of the George Foreman thingee,” not “threw them on the backyard grill, with a mix of mesquite and cherry woodchips.”

  3. Well, I don’t recall any Anglos being sent home from school for not wearing Green ( or Orange) on St. Patricks day 40 or so years ago.
    But maybe that happened.
    I just hope we move beyond the current phase Cinco De Mayo is ( at least in certain parts of the Country usually controlled by the progs)
    So that it will eventually become the late Spring St. Patrick’s day.

  4. Also, is St. Patrick’s day really all that big outside of America?

  5. The holiday is to celebrate a military victory over France. Doesn’t pretty much every country have one of these?

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