BBurns Loc: South Bay, California

I offer a single visual.....

BebuLamar

I don't know but I think this is in bad taste especially for those who do celebrate the holiday.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

I taught in East Los Angeles (Mexican-American and Latino area of Los Angeles County) and on the 5th of May I would replace the regular calendar with a square of poster board with 5 Mayonnaise packets glued to it.
I required all work, including the opening quiz on the previous day's work to have the date on it. Not one single time did I ever have a class that at least one the student didn't ask "What is the date?"
And this at a school that had a special schedule with a double length Lunch Hour and special assemblies for the "Cinco De Mayo" celebration.

I know, I was a tricky Devil of a teacher.

BBurns Loc: South Bay, California

This was in response to the Annual Joke that comes around every year!

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

I taught in East Los Angeles,m 90%+ of the students and a large part of the faculty were Mexican-American and they thought the jokes about "Sinko De Mayo" were hilarious.

BBurns Loc: South Bay, California

I have many Mexican friends who also laugh at it.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

LMAO!

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

And if you google "Mexican Mayonnaise" you get pages of commercial brands and recipes to make your own.

All the way from mildly spiced to OH MY GOD THAT'S HOT!

One teacher at a school where I taught 15 years was from Mexico City and at a faculty pot luck I took two pots of home made chili-con-carne, one safe for most people and one the way I ate it. I also took some small bottles of the BBQ sauce used at the BBQ restaurant my family owned when I was in elementary school in Western Kentucly.

Well, this lady saw the warning sign I put on the hot pot of chili=fancy font letters saying HOT! in orange, yellow and red flames and said she would see what a Gringo considered hot. She got a small bowl, took one heaping spoonful, her face turned red, sweat popped out on her forehead and she started what had to be a world class Spanish Cussing Session while grabbing a glass of iced tea to gulp.
When she got her breath back she looked at me and said "I thought my Aunt Lupe made hot chili, but this makes her's seem mild." "Do you actually eat this or was it a special joke for the potluck?"

I filled a bowl with some and proceeded to eat it while she just stared. I asked if she would like one of the bottles of home made hotsauce = = = NO!

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

Not mexican, but we had an annual meeting in San Francisco a few decades ago. Our group leader liked hot stuff and we went to a restaurant in Chinatown that served Hunan food. Said group leader challenged the waiter for a hot dish and he got what he wanted. We normally shared dishes but only took the smallest possible sample of that one.

The other hot stuff I remember was at an (asian) Indian dinner where someone brought out a dish that contained what my memory tells me was Kasundi (don't know how it was spelled but that was another extreme for me).

I like slightly hot stuff but not the extremes. I do not fear the appellation 'wimp'.

Horseart Loc: Alabama

I used to like a little "spice" but when I had chemo, 34 years ago, the edges of my tongue would blister for about an hour and to this day, if I even eat a little black pepper, it blisters again. I have to be careful what I order in restaurants.

Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona

I don't think it's in bad taste but not exactly PC, especially in these days where people are looking for reasons to be offended

Julian Loc: Sarasota, FL

Sinko? That’s hilarious! Perhaps ‘cinco’ more appropriate.

raymondh Loc: Walker, MI

pendennis

For about five years, I worked on a project which moved Ford of Mexico into Ford North America. Every professional discipline was involved. I was usually in Mexico City the first two weeks of each month. I recall that Cinco de Mayo wasn't that big a deal. The factories were active, as were professional offices.

I live outside Southwest Detroit which has a very large Hispanic contingency (Mexican Town). They have parades and all kinds of celebrations celebrating the holiday.

campyboy1 Loc: vancouver Washington

They don't celebrate Cinco de Mayo in Mexico is like St. Patty day in Irland they don't celebrate it there it's just a Amercian thing for people to drink and party.