CINCO DE MAYO - May 5

National Day Calendar ^ | May 05, 2025 | Staff

[Paal Gulli]

"Cinco de Mayo is Spanish for 'fifth of May'....”

No it isn't.

It's Spanish for "Five of May." The Spanish ordinal for 5º is "quinto," NOT CINCO!!!!

Idiot probably doesn't know enough Spanish to read the menu at Taco Bell.

[Fledermaus]

And Billy Dee Williams movies. He’s so smooooooooooth.

[dfwgator]

“It’s all just talk, unless it’s the one they call ‘Coldcock’!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwzG3e5IUxg

[philman_36]

As an American, I don’t celebrate St. Patrick day either.

[philman_36]

So why should it be celebrated in America?

[dfwgator]

Because beer companies.

[philman_36]

So much for assimilating. No wonder Mexican flags fly in America.

[philman_36]

Sounds like a profit motive, not a patriotic motive.

[CrimsonTidegirl]

I can’t argue that:)

[MeanWestTexan]

“So why should it be celebrated in America?”

It’s more of a joke than anything; just an excuse to drink beer and enjoy nice weather, which is literally how this fake “holiday” came about.

But if you are looking for a historical reason, the Battle of Puebla stalled Napoleon’s forces that were likely going to reinforce/break the Union’s blockaid of New Orleans and thus aid the Democrats’ rebellion to continue to own slaves.

The result of the French/Mexican war was French military aid to the Democrats did not come through and the USA was saved, or at least the war was shorter.

[philman_36]

I don’t need a Mexican history lesson. The Alamo is the only history lesson I need regarding Mexico.

[MeanWestTexan]

I don’t disagree with your dim opinion of Mexico, at all.

But the effect this particular battle had on the USA’s history is an interesting footnote.

[philman_36]

PLEASE! It’s barely a footnote in Mexican, much less American, history, by their own admission.

[MeanWestTexan]

Show me where I disagreed.

[philman_36]

Then why belabor the point?