Cinco de Mayo, a drunken event?
By wertzburg1
@wertzburg1 (200)
United States
May 7, 2007 10:00am CST
I love how Cinco de Mayo is a Mexican celebration yet here in America we celebrate it. People who are not Mexican and don't even know the reason behind Cinco de Mayo get together to party and get drunk.
In all honesty, it's just another excuse to get drunk. What a great country we live in......(I'm being sarcastic in case you didn't catch it)
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@callarse1 (4783)
• United States
7 May 07
You can celebrate it, but it is your choice to drink or not. If you decide to drink then you shouldn't drink too much. People that make it into a party drink regularly (and get drunk regularly, too). Really, I think it just makes sense, drunks (and people who love to drink) are going to find every reason (or perhaps every occasion) to drink and have fun. Have a nice day.
Pablo
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@shaggin (71664)
• United States
5 May 10
I agree its a good excuse for a party but here in my home in Pennsylvania I did not get drunk. My children and I had my neice and nephew and my sister over for a Mexican dinner. None of the kids would reall eat much mexican food so I just made casadeas however thats spelled. They were really good. I also made potatoes for the picky ones like my nephew who wouldnt eat casadeas. My daughter surprisingly tried and ate a small triangle cut from the large casadea I made. I had a few pieces and some potatoes but I wasent very hungry I pretty much just made the dinner for the kids excitment. I love any excuse to do something fun with my kids.
@shaggin (71664)
• United States
6 May 10
I posted this yesterday when it was cinco de mayo and never thought to check the date when you posted this discussion. My kids and I along with my neice and nephew had the mexican dinner on May 4th as I really thought that was when Cinco de mayo was. I guess I should have looked it up because that was the wrong date lol cinco de mayo means fifth of May haha. I even put up on facebook that I was having my neice and nephew over on the 4th for a dinner for cinco de mayo and lol no one corrected me. Some thought it was just due to scheduling why I had to do it early and some just assumed that May 4th must be cinco de mayo if I posted it. When I was on facebook yesterday and saw someone post that it was cinco de mayo I was like what thats not right they have to be wrong. So I looked it up but ugh of course I was the one that was wrong. It gave everyone a good laugh at me haha but I was not happy so I am getting ice cream and cones and having an ice cream social for them today to make up for it.
@Wolfsbayne (314)
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7 May 07
Same thing with St Patricks Day - most of the world celebrate it as a reason to get drunk.
@ChampagneGiggles (699)
• United States
16 May 07
I love Cinco de Mayo. It wasn't as big a deal up in Indiana, but down here in Texas it's wicked large. My neighborhood teems with people eating, drinking, and dancing. Just a good time all around. And yes, we all know what Cinco de Mayo is for.
@marguicha (215368)
• Chile
10 Oct 12
I have never understaood why people "celebrate2 an event they know nothing about and change it to a moment to get drunk. Cinco de Mayo was a date of a battle won by the mexicans. Nothing to do with getting drunk. And it seems to me that american citizens use an alien event to get drunk. Funny! Why don`t they get drunk at one of their national holidays? Or they do that too? I am being sarcastic too. By the way, Cinco de Mayo is not a holiday in Mexico and has nothing to do with its Independence Day (on September 16) where people celebrate but do not get massivelly drunk.
