Happy 5th of May!
"Cinco de Mayo" stands for "the Fifth of May" in Spanish. It is a holiday held on May 5 that commemorates the Mexican army's unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. While Cinco de Mayo sees limited significance and celebration nationwide in Mexico, the date is observed nationwide in the United States and other locations around the world as a celebration of Mexican heritage and pride.
I have numerous friends that are Mexican here in Moscow, and all of them insist on significant amounts of drinking during this holiday. My friends and I typically play drinking games on Cinco de Mayo, accompanied by watching recorded wrestling or fighting videos. Last year, we played a drinking game called "asshole," which is a card game. The loser is designated asshole, and has to deal the cards and remove them suring the game when the piled is cleared (the rules are highly complicated to explain in text, so I'll spare you). However, my friends and I always create an "asshole hat" that the designated asshole has to wear. It is typically made of s beer box and cans of the chosen drink. We also like to wrestle, box, and have a BBQ consisting of chicken, hamburgers and hotdogs and a warm fire. I love living in Idaho at times because it means being able to have a firepit in your backyard and loud music because most of your neighbors are just like you, Nine times out of ten, your neighbors hear the commotion next door, and instead of calling the cops, they come over and join you for a few beers and a celebration of just living another day.
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