Cinco De Mayo
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This will be the first time since moving to California in 1975 that we won’t be going to Olvera Street to celebrate. As you can imagine, it’s a big holiday in Los Angeles.
I made Chori Pollo. Grilled chicken breasts with chorizo and cheese sauce...with rice and refried beans. Tortiilas. Jalopenos, green onion, tomatoes.
It’s my Birthday
Is it not Great that I have a National Holiday on my birthday
I’m an hour or so south of you, in Encinitas. It just doesn’t feel the same this year. Olvera Street is usually quite the scene, my buddy lives in the Franklin Hills/Los Féliz area so I’ve been a few times. Hopefully this and other things will be somewhat back to normal sooner rather than later. Stay safe and H2P
Cinco de Mayo falls on taco Tuesday. Perfect. Love our homemade taco’s. Had a Modelo, too.
My wife made an awesome dinner.. chicken bowl with black beans, tomatoes, green onion... delicious.
She did but I wasn't involved in making any of it... when she is up and around I'll confirm. I can say it was very good and hoping for some leftovers for lunch.
Cinco De Mayo is celebrated in America because beer importers promoted it as a reason to drink Mexican beer.
"Yet, though the holiday gained in popularity among Mexican immigrants in the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s, it remained relatively insular. While more Mexican Americans began celebrating the holiday as a way to embrace the connection between Mexican and American culture, most other American groups had no idea the holiday existed. But in 1989 the San Antonio based Gambrinus Group, who were the regional importers of Corona and Grupo Modelo, launched a Cinco de Mayo themed ad encouraging Mexican Americans already celebrating the holiday to make it a priority on this day to drink Mexican beer. The campaign took off.
What occurred in only eight short years was the holiday solidifying itself more as a time to drink Corona than a time to acknowledge the deep connection America and Mexico share. By 1996, consuming Corona as a way to celebrate Cinco de Mayo was the core way most people acknowledged the holiday’s existence, a huge victory for the Corona marketers. That year Gambrinus marketing manager Don Mann said, “Corona is the first thing that comes to mind when customers think Cinco de Mayo.”
https://vinepair.com/wine-blog/how-corona-made-cinco-de-mayo-an-american-holiday/
"Yet, though the holiday gained in popularity among Mexican immigrants in the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s, it remained relatively insular. While more Mexican Americans began celebrating the holiday as a way to embrace the connection between Mexican and American culture, most other American groups had no idea the holiday existed. But in 1989 the San Antonio based Gambrinus Group, who were the regional importers of Corona and Grupo Modelo, launched a Cinco de Mayo themed ad encouraging Mexican Americans already celebrating the holiday to make it a priority on this day to drink Mexican beer. The campaign took off.
What occurred in only eight short years was the holiday solidifying itself more as a time to drink Corona than a time to acknowledge the deep connection America and Mexico share. By 1996, consuming Corona as a way to celebrate Cinco de Mayo was the core way most people acknowledged the holiday’s existence, a huge victory for the Corona marketers. That year Gambrinus marketing manager Don Mann said, “Corona is the first thing that comes to mind when customers think Cinco de Mayo.”
https://vinepair.com/wine-blog/how-corona-made-cinco-de-mayo-an-american-holiday/
I was actually in Mexico (and not in Puebla) on Cinco de Mayo probably about 15 years ago. I asked some of the guys down there about it, and they all basically laughed and said that it was more an American holiday that a Mexican one. People frequently mistake Cinco de Mayo for Mexican Independence Day, but it's not. And other than in the City and State of Puebla it isn't even a "real" holiday. People don't even get the day off from work for Cinco de Mayo.
Although it did seem as time went on that the holiday was actually starting to get "imported" back across the border so that more people on the Mexican side of the border were starting to celebrate the day as well.
That’s what we did too. I used a homemade Mexican cauliflower rice to keep it healthier.
Now I got a good reason to hate on this holiday!
I like good beer and with that said
Corona beer SUCKS! I hope the Corona virus makes Corona beer go the way of a diet supplement known as AYDS (pronounced AIDS)
I have to agree on your impression of the taste of Corona beer. To me, it ranks up there with Heineken for crappy "popular" beers.
Negra Modelo and Pacifico are two Mexican beers that I like.
Heineken is such an awful tasting beer that it truly amazes me how it’s popular. I know we all have different tastes but Heineken tastes like bad beer that is skunked.
corona I don’t drink but with a lime, if you are in the sun during the day, how light it is, it’s not to bad. I recall liking Pacifico when I was in Tijuana but I was in Tijuana and drunk so who knows.
Yeah....you don't want me to rewire your house, but the cooking thing I kinda got down pat. And have so since I was a teen.
Yeah, Corona is the worst. Complete marketing swill, like Foster's is...you think you are drinking some exotic beer, you are not. It is the equivalent of drinking Killian's Red for St. Patricks Day.
At least Dos Equis Amber is a palatable mass produced "Mexican" beer. Tecate, Negro Modelo are okay too.
I put Tecate in the list of Mexican beers that I would not recommend.
Actually Raleigh. Mexico doesn't have a really good beer culture. Drink a margarita. Or Dos Equis Amber. Or your favorite American craft beer.
I understand Mexican beer culture, and Tecate is one of their low end beers.
I don't think there's any Mexican beer that I would recommend outside of those wanting to drink a Mexican beer with Mexican food.
Why do Americans celebrate a faux Mexican holiday? I don't get it and never did. On May 5th we had homemade steak and cheese sandwiches, homemade cajun seasoned potato wedges and oven roasted cauliflower. If you've never roasted cauliflower in your oven, you're missing out on the best cauliflower you've ever eaten.
Yes.
Man, the old way I was brought up to eat caulifower, just steamed or boiled into mush then a cheese sauce drizzled over it was enough to make hate cauliflower.
But fried cauliflower is absolutely awesome. Roasted cauliflower is awesome. And the best is a dish called "Gobi Manchurian" (Gobi is cauliflower in either Hindu or Chinese and it is just friggin awesome. Sort of like a General Tso's Chicken version of Cauliflower.
How did people cook in the 50's, 60's and 70's? It was such crap, unless you had any ethnicity.
True, fried is good. Oven is just so easy. Clean, cut, toss in a bowl with oil and your seasoning of choice, then dump it onto a pan and into the oven. I've tried broccoli, but it's just OK. I prefer to saute broccoli.
The condensed soup casseroles inventor should be persecuted.
Good story, I ended up with some canned green beans during this pandemic when frozen veggies were wiped out in stores. We made them for my kids... they were like eeuuw they're nasty looking and mushy. I realized they never had canned green beans or canned peas. Even when we go camping, I toss bags of frozen veggies in the cooler.
I can't remember one time having cauliflower as a kid when it wasn't boiled to a mush, with Velveeta cheese quasi-melted on it.
Thanks for that memory!
Fun Fact: My Mom still buys canned asparagus. I can't think of one thing worse than canned asparagus - especially when fresh asparagus is so wonderful.
We had a Don Julio party. Six feet apart we consumed shots of this great tequila. Lots of laughs. Moving a little slow today.
