Boycott "Cinco de Mayo"

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[Monk Dimittis]

Fed up with the Mexican illegals and their supporters, many of whom are Mexicans also (those who didn't support the illegals were rather quiet)?

Boycott Cinco de Mayo. Stay away from everything Mexican on May 5th. Don't buy Mexican beers.

[jackbenimble]

The corona you get in mexico in the little brown stubby bottles tastes completely different than the corona you buy here in the states too!

They are two different products. They make Corona and Corona Especial. The Especial is what we get here and it is also available in Mexico as a premium product that is considerably more expensive then the Corona you are talking about.

In my opinion Negra Modelo, Leon and Noche Bueno are the best of the Mexican beers. All are fairly dark.

[lonestar]

Tacos and Enchilladas

Tex-Mex

I like Tejano music--especially in Hune and Huly.

[wardaddy]

lol....how did you do that?

mole'

actually...there are other things besides mole poblano I am fond of...other chilis, vanillas

Veracruz style fish dishes

Flans

Huevos Ranchero incarnations

Mexico City Novelas (para las chicas)

But...Goya made my mad-at list yesterday....and I always liked Goya. Best canned black beans and bottle mojo.

I thought they were a NYC outfit anyhow..

[wardaddy]

Goya supported boycott yesterday...shut down.

Goya is an NYC company with Spanish roots most often associated with Carbibbean latino foodstuffs with large operations in the Dom Rep and Puerto Rica...and in Cuba before La Barba.

[hispanarepublicana]

You hold down the alt key with your left hand while typing in 0233 with your right hand on the number-pad on the keyboard. Or, you go to "Character Map" and copy and paste the character.
There is a competitor to Goya here in Texas, but I can't remember the name. They make a molé in a jar that is very good (it's concentrated, and you dilute it a bit).

[wardaddy]

I have a friend here whose mom makes good molé here or i go to el palenque

[after dark]

You need to read a time line Maximilien was murdered by a Mexican firing squad in 1867. The civil war ended in 1965.The Mexicans did not give a rats ass about the slaves and profited by smuggling to the Confederate States. Even if they had defeated the French before the civil war ended , the Mexicans would have continued smuggling goods into the confederacy.

[after dark]

I meant 1865.

[sionnsar]

I guess my having lived in the mountains of central Mexico for about a year softened me.

I spent a summer in San Miguel Allende as a boy.

[Vision]

WHAT IS CINCO DE MAYO ALL ABOUT? AND WHY A CELEBRATION IN SAN DIEGO
AND OLD TOWN?

The 5th of May is not Mexican Independence Day, but is should be ! And Cinco de Mayo is not an American holiday, but it should be. Mexico declared its independence from mother Spain on midnight, the 15th of September, 1810. And it took 11 years before the first Spanish soldiers were told and forced to leave Mexico.

So, why Cinco de Mayo? And why should Americans savor this day as well? Because 4,000 Mexican soldiers smashed the French and traitor Mexican army of 8,000 at Puebla, Mexico, 100 miles east of Mexico City on the morning of May 5, 1862.

The French had landed in Mexico (along with Spanish and English troops) five months earlier on the pretext of collecting Mexican debts from the newly elected government of democratic President (and Indian) Benito Juarez. The English and Spanish quickly made deals and left. The French, however, had different ideas.

Under Emperor Napoleon III, who detested the United States, the French came to stay. They brought a Hapsburg prince with them to rule the new Mexican empire. His name was Maximilian; his wife, Carolota. Napoleon's French Army had not been defeated in 50 years, and it invaded Mexico with the finest modern equipment and with a newly reconstituted Foreign Legion. The French were not afraid of anyone, especially since the United States was embroiled in its own Civil War.

The French Army left the port of Vera Cruz to attack Mexico City to the west, as the French assumed that the Mexicans would give up should their capital fall to the enemy -- as European countries traditionally did.

Under the command of Texas-born General Zaragosa, (and the cavalry under the command of Colonel Porfirio Diaz, later to be Mexico's president and dictator), the Mexicans awaited. Brightly dressed French Dragoons led the enemy columns. The Mexican Army was less stylish.

General Zaragosa ordered Colonel Diaz to take his cavalry, the best in the world, out to the French flanks. In response, the French did a most stupid thing; they sent their cavalry off to chase Diaz and his men, who proceeded to butcher them. The remaining French infantrymen charged the Mexican defenders through sloppy mud from a thunderstorm and through hundreds of head of stampeding cattle stirred up by Indians armed only with machetes.

When the battle was over, many French were killed or wounded and their cavalry was being chased by Diaz' superb horsemen miles away. The Mexicans had won a great victory that kept Napoleon III from supplying the confederate rebels for another year, allowing the United States to build the greatest army the world had ever seen. This grand army smashed the Confederates at Gettysburg just 14 months after the battle of Pueblo, essentially ending the Civil War.

Union forces were then rushed to the Texas/Mexican border under General Phil Sheridan, who made sure that the Mexicans got all the weapons and ammunition they needed to expel the French. American soldiers were discharged with their uniforms and rifles if they promised to join the Mexican Army to fight the French. The American Legion of Honor marched in the Victory Parade in Mexico City.

It might be a historical stretch to credit the survival of the United States to those brave 4,000 Mexicans who faced an army twice as large in 1862. But who knows?

In gratitude, thousands of Mexicans crossed the border after Pearl Harbor to join the U.S. Armed Forces. As recently as the Persian Gulf War, Mexicans flooded American consulates with phone calls, trying to join up and fight another war for America.

Mexicans, you see, never forget who their friends are, and neither do Americans. That's why Cinco de Mayo is such a party -- A party that celebrates freedom and liberty. There are two ideals which Mexicans and Americans have fought shoulder to shoulder to protect, ever since the 5th of May, 1862. VIVA! el CINCO DE MAYO!!


http://www.fiestacincodemayo.com/

[after dark]

My! What an excellent attempt at indoctrination. To begin with neither side of the Mexican French war loved America. Mexicans thought America had stolen its land even then. The French actually were indifferent to America. When one of the Mexican leaders was told that the American government wanted help him, his response was " I know the Americans would make the French leave, but who the devil will make the Americans leave."You illustrate that victory over the french may not have been possible without American aid. If this was done to punish the French for aiding the Confederates, it was stupid . The Mexicans smuggled ,then for the reasons they do now ,to make a quick buck.

I must say that the Mexicans who benefited most by the over throw of the French have done nothing to improve the lives of the poor people of Mexico outside of giving them maps to this country. At least if the French had won the poor Mexicans would probably be speaking French in addition to Spanish. They would have been so cultured. I do not think the french would have allowed the kill the whitey mentality to have gone on as long as it has in Mexico. One thing is for certain this greed for land does not end with just the border states .

[uncitizen]

Do I have to give up tequila, too?

Yes. And Bud.

[A CA Guy]

They don't even celebrate Cinco De Mayo in Mexico.

Who would celebrate a victory over the French. Little five year olds in skirts could win that battle.

[Joan Kerrey]

Not only have I stopped drinking Mexican beer but I now beat my Chihuahua with tortillas rather than just scream at her.

[uncitizen]

I wouldn't think of leaving the house on Cinco de Mayo in San Jose when the cops close down the streets which are paid for with my taxes, and the Illegal and legal Mexicans are waving their Mexican flags, getting drunk, and fighting (and later at night shooting their guns in the air).

[kittymyrib]

Nope, Cinco de Mayo is not Mexican Independence Day. That is Sept. 16. Cinco de Mayo is mainly an invention in the '80s and '90s by the US public school system to make Mexican children feel special and build up their self esteem. It was such a minor historical footnote in Mexican history, and an embarrassing one at that that culminated in Maximillian of France on the Mexican throne for seven years, that it was not celebrated in Mexico until US schools started pushing it as a sop to multiculturalism.

[NRA2BFree]

Why would anyone buy Mexican beer in the first place?

I have friends in Albuquerque (Gringos) who drink "Corona" beer and they seem to like it. I haven't seen them for a while, so hopefully they have stopped since all these demonstrations began.

[NRA2BFree]

Is that the Mexican from Hell? LOL

[tertiary01]

I'm staying away from any business that openly advertises sales for Cinco De Mayo. It's time to put this so called holiday in the toilet where it belongs.

[ContemptofCourt]

Why would anyone buy Mexican beer in the first place?

Crazy that a mexican beer is the number one imported beer in the US, huh.