Posted on 05/05/2018 9:41:47 AM PDT by pboyington
These people are a hoot.
If one culture did not appropriate culture from other groups, everything would be in perfect little silos, with no interactions, and one group driving flying cars, and the other hunting bison.
The whole thing is riciculous.
I enjoy celebrating Christmas...a cultural event of semites and gentiles from a pretty small part of Syria and Israel.
Thank you, the author has had some bad Mezcal.
My wife wishes the French had won the battle, but I pointed out that they would not have stayed long enough to fix Mexico either. (Note that they left Louisiana to the US).
But Cinco de Mayo is a fine way to culturally appropriate one of the better productos que hecho en Mexico,
It does not take a brain surgeon to figure this out:
First week of May. Generally college classes end this week or next. It’s usually the first nice weather of spring.
College kids in the northern realms want to celebrate the end of the school year, and blow off steam before finals or graduation.
AND next weekend is mother’s day. Gotta go home for mother’s day. And you don’t drink in the middle of finals.
We used to have Junior weekend, when the seniors gave up command of the cadet regiment. Juniors got their rings. Rugby was played. The Outlaws played in the armory.
Yeah, and one thing happened in Mexico. I have Tequila. Let’s celebrate something in Mexico.
The path from Spring Weekend to Cinqo d Mayo is pretty short and it’s oiled with cheap Cuervo.
Real Americans celebrating Cinco de Mayo is a good thing because it gets the Libtards panties in a knot.
Maybe now, where all the kiddies have to have everything mapped out and specific rules set to do anything. When I went to college in the 1970s, our college had a "Spree Day" tradition. On the first decent day in the spring, the bells on campus would start tolling about 7:30, all classes were cancelled, and beer stations were set up in specific locations around so we could drink (for free, naturally) and enjoy the coming of spring.
My first encounter with true "beer league" softball. Kegs at every base, you couldn't advance until you finished a glass where you were.
True.
Cinco de Mayo is just another holiday to get more beer sales and the sort.
When Americans celebrate Cinco de Mayo, the political Left gets angry and start going off.
Oh my. My sentiments almost exactly. Almost.
Just that indeed St Pat was turned into the original PC holiday about how great some OTHER is, not American. And it is not a religious holiday here, just some Irish pride nonsense.
And there is no Italian day. No more than there was any Mexican day when I was a kid.
AMEN.
AMERICAN tradition....DERBY DAY!
LOL!! Sombreros and nothing else? Happy Cinco de Margarita to you.
Good article.
Thank you! I don’t even remember why I did all the “eye close up” stuff... If you private message me, I’ll share interesting stuff about Wes.
Yesterday, an Atlanta radio station, WSB, played a clip of the original 1989 beer commercial.
Bottled in Mexico, Corona, apparently initiated this beer holiday—celebrated widely in the US, but not so much in Mexico.
At the time Corona was distributed by Anheuser-Busch. With their ability to put up displays in every convenience store in the land Bud found it very easy to shake-and-bake a holiday.
South of the border it’s just like one of our Civil War battles, if you’ve ever spent time in our South you know most areas have some sort of festival or party or re-enactment of some “major” Civil War battle that happened in the area and nobody more than one county away knows or cares. Cinco de Mayo just happened to have a nice ring to it, so Bud put up the displays and here we are.
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