It is now Cinco de Mayo. A minor Mexican holiday. Where a battle is commemorated that the Mexicans won (in a war with the French that they eventually lost). The actually Mexican independence day commemorates the Grito de Dolores on September 16. It is celebrated more in the US than in Mexico.
So, most of us here will be eating tacos (most likely the Taco Bell version not the authentic Mexican ones) and drinking Corona (founded by German immigrants, and therefor more closely related to Budweiser than Mexico), not realizing that it’s not really that big of a holiday.It is more known for it’s historical significance in Mexico….
On my Grandpa’s dairy farm, he had a steer named Cinco de Mayo, because he was born on Cinco de Mayo. He was friendly. But my father was in the Army at the time, and he got posted to Germany, and so off to Europe we went. At Cinco de Mayo (the steer) became meatloaf…
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