Will you be celebrating Cinco de Mayo? I’ll never forget moving to the Southwest after growing up in the Northeast and working at a bar. The owner had us all huddle up went over the De Mayo game plan. I then asked when Cinco de Mayo was. He looked at me and repeated it slower like that was supposed to help.

I see it as basically the West Coast St Patrick’s Day.

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  2. Yeah, I’ll be picking up some tacos for dinner afterwork

    Edit: west coast version of st. Patty’s day seems very accurate. I always felt like st. Patty’s day had a bigger celebration in the east than the west anyways.

  3. 3rd gen Mexican American here. Nah. It’s just a day americans hijacked to have another reason to party.

  4. It is the same night I’ll be watching Doctor Strange so it will be popcorn instead of tacos this year.

  5. Of course I will. Definitely surprised to hear that you don’t celebrate it in the northeast.

  6. You worked at a bar in 2009 and still claim not to know what it is? Oh you’re so, so sheltered or you’re being dumb on purpose

  9. Kind of. I give my business to a local Mexican restaurant and watch movies like Coco. I’m Peruvian, but I’ll support a part of another Latino culture. When I was in college, the Latin bar was usually packed more than usual, and you’d occasionally see white people dress in very offensive costumes.

  13. I always thought Cinco de Mayo was a strange holiday to appropriate. It’s a celebration of a national military event, not a cultural holiday. We, in the US, needed a holiday to remind ourselves of our long history with our Southern neighbor and Cinco de Mayo just caught on.

    You’re right about the St. Patrick’s day comparison. The date/historical event celebrated is irrelevant. It’s just a cultural reminder holiday. It is also an excuse to drink.

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