Happy Cinco de Mayo...it's a Texas thing

GrouchoM

Cinco de Mayo (pronounced: [ˈsiŋko ðe ˈmaʝo]; Spanish for "May 5th", or literally, "Fifth of May") is a celebration held onMay 5. The date is observed to commemorate the Mexican Army's unlikely victory over French forces at theBattle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza. In the United States, Cinco de Mayo is sometimes mistaken to be Mexico's Independence Day—the most important national holiday in Mexico—which is celebrated on September 16.

kswildcat

Actually it's a thing wherever there is a large group of Latinos.  Dodge City,  Garden City and Great Bend KS same as shut down for it...

Use to be the meat packing plants all but shut down but since most the workers now are from the middle east it's different. 

peter4jc

Just another excuse to party and get sloshed.

Usaf06

As if you need an excuse

Yakster

Big here in San Jose too, has gotten out of hand in the past with drunken brawls

Bob_Luken

I ate Mexican for lunch. Happy coincidence. I didn't even remember the date until I was there. Maybe I'll sip some o that Mexican hooch tonight, but I'll have to remember.

Poopy_Jones

Here in Phoenix it's quite popular and is moving up the ladder as one of the larger amateur drunk nights like New Years Eve & St Paddys Day. One of my worst hangovers ever was suffered on May 6

Yakster

Amateur, a true pro would have the hangover on the 7th. 

CharlieHeis

Yakster said:

Amateur, a true pro would have the hangover on the 7th. 

The pros don't get hungover.

The3Stogies

I smoked a Cinco-Vegas, does that count?

I used to be a pro, friends would come over I usually had a drink going anytime.  Told them it was training, to be good at anything you have to train right.  No way was I going to pass out at a party and get painted.  

Patrickbrick

CharlieHeis said:

Yakster said:

Amateur, a true pro would have the hangover on the 7th. 

The pros don't get hungover.

This is true, what's a hangover?