May 05, 2004

HiMonkey! is celebrating Cinco De Mayo, and MeFi is there. (Who's the copyfilter now?)
posted by wendell 20 years ago
  • If only every country had a holiday for the time they whooped France's ass....
  • i love seeing cinco de mayo banners in bars in germany. in related news, a waitress in a chinese restaurant in germany once told us, "bon appetit." i nearly fell over from the sheer internationalness of it all.
  • When in Mexico (not Tijuana), ask someone there about Cinco de Mayo. Apart from small celebrations in Mexico City and the small town of Puebla (where the battle took place, and a reenactment is performed... with sometimes the 'French army' winning, due to the alcohol level of all present), the date isn't such a big national holiday. It was pumped by beer companies in the south of USA to circunvent alcohol consumption laws. For a real fiesta mexicana, hang around Mexico during september 15th, Independence Day.
  • If only every country had a holiday for the time they whooped France's ass.... ...except Germany. Please! I got a chuckle out of the way that monkey misspelled pico de gallo (which, at Baja Fresh, my favorite burrito chain, is the least spicy of their salsa offerings, so I refer to it as "chicken salsa"...). Flagpole, I agree. The popularity of Cinco de Mayo has little to do with Mexico, but with the fact that there are five other American holidays where drinking is encouraged (New Years, St. Pat's, 4th of July, Labor Day and Halloween), and the marketers needed something in May to fill the largest gap between "alcoholidays". *adjusts tinfoil hat*
  • Ohhh I see what's going on here - this "alcohol marketing" stuff is just a thin veil - You're all against television aren't you?!! Bastards! *crunches tortilla chips in sulky silence* Cute monkey tho. hey wendell got any more of that chip-o-ta-lay salsa stuff?
  • A very important epistle from the church of Rob Cockerham on Cinco de Mayo related festivities.
  • CERVAZA!
  • OK, assuming I didn't spell that right or something. BEER
  • Some lukewarm salsa? Hot avocado guacamole is what the doctor ordered! And the first that yells Ay ay ay, muy picante! pays for the pizzas!
  • CERVEZA! please CHEVE! CHELA! (cold beer)
  • Hey, Zemat, do you put salt in your beer?
  • Una fiesta?
  • Salt and a twist of lemon.
  • You UTCians come west. Cinco de Mayo still going on. But don't come to Mexico, we hardly celebrate it. Less with the current Mexico-Cuba fiasco rising up.
  • Salt and a twist of lemon. Yeah, I knew a Mexican chick who did this. She was an ace little beer-drinker, too.
  • Maybe HiMonkey's Tibetan friends could help heal Goodall's friend's mind.
  • !
  • MonkeyFilter: Vacant stare. Incapable of speech. My god, they lobotomized him!