Holiday of Cinco de Mayo is minor event in Mexico

Houston Chronicle ^ | May 5, 2010, 8:20AM | OSCAR CASARES

[Perdogg]

Just imagine if France still ran Mexico.

[C19fan]

Basically another fake holiday like Kwannza (sp?).

[a fool in paradise]

Just imagine if Texas still held Mexico City.

[a fool in paradise]

Happy Holidays (Communist May Day, Cerveza De Mayo, and National Day of Prayer).

[dragnet2]

Here's Bush celebrating that minor event up in the White House.

[discostu]

More like St Patrick’s Day. Somebody figured out how to use the holiday to sell lots of beer in America so now we are much more into the holiday than the people in the country it came from.

[rahbert]

Stay thirsty my friends..

[a fool in paradise]

[Chi-townChief]

More like St. Patrick’s Day w/ Dos Equis instead of Guinness.

[sunny48]

Most people don’t know that back in 1912, Hellman’s mayonnaise was manufactured in England. The “Titanic” was carrying 12,000 jars of the condiment scheduled for delivery in Vera Cruz, Mexico, which was to be the next port of call for the great ship after New York City.

The Mexican people were eagerly awaiting delivery and were disconsolate at the loss. So much so that they declared a national day of mourning which they still observe today. It is known, of course, as Sinko de Mayo.

[dragnet2]

Monkey see monkey do huh?

[discostu]

Dos Equis is the only beer appropriate for both Cinco de Mayo and Oktoberfest. The company was founded by a German and uses mostly German recipes.

[rrrod]

isnt mexico the birth place of syphilis?

[C19fan]

I think technically more the Caribbean although there is huge debate whether the virulent syphilis originally came from the New World.

[a fool in paradise]

It’s only okay to call Bush a monkey.

[Jewbacca]

Created by a beer distributor.

Not sure which one, I think one from Texas.

[dragnet2]

Oh, that’s right!

[reagan_fanatic]

Just imagine that Mexico was located somewhere on the European continent instead of here.

[a fool in paradise]

I think technically more the Caribbean although there is huge debate whether the virulent syphilis originally came from the New World.

The indigenous people waged a campaign of genocide against Columbus and his men by giving them diseases for which they had no resistence. < /academic crackpot conspiracy theory flipped on its head >