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MELEE · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 3:31 pm Post subject:

Why did so many of you spend your puente on Dave's?

thelmadatter · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 3:40 pm Post subject: bagel pilgrimage

You know, a student once told me that there were decent bagels in Puebla. Kinda surprised there are no surcursales of the place in DF. Maybe some of us bagel mavens should think of opening one! After all, these guys have probably already figured out how to adapt the product here culturally. Very Happy

I think this calls for a pilgrimage to Puebla (bagels for breakfast and cemits for lunch.... and come back 5 lbs (or 2.2 kilos) heavier.

notamiss · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 4:28 pm Post subject:

MO39 · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 5:41 pm Post subject:

Could someone clarify where in Mexico Cinco de Mayo is an official holiday? I just met one of my neighbors on the stairs, and she told me that she went to pay her electricity bill, and the office was closed. On the other hand, my private students (who all work for private companies) all have to work today. I wonder if I should bother to walk over to Correos to see if I have any mail in my PO box...

dixie · Joined: 23 Apr 2006 Posts: 644 Location: D.F

mapache · Joined: 12 Oct 2006 Posts: 202 Location: Villahermosa

which raises another question: Why is Cinco de Mayo a huge holiday in the US but hardly anything at all in Chiapas other than another day off for workers?

Students here don't even know why the holiday is celebrated, when or where the battle was and whom it was against.

I miss Cinco de Mayo

dixie · Joined: 23 Apr 2006 Posts: 644 Location: D.F

notamiss · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 9:10 pm Post subject:

Cinco de mayo has become the day to celebrate the Mexican diaspora more than anything else. Something like St. Patrick's Day to the "everybody-is-Irish-on-March-17".

Apparently, the history of celebrating cinco de mayo in the USA goes all the way back to the 1860's!

debmport · Joined: 10 Nov 2007 Posts: 34 Location: Guadalaholla

Cinco de Mayo has become just as important as St. Patricks Day, Chinese New Year, Oktoberfest, and all those other popular American holidays.

Snowmeow · Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Posts: 24

notamiss · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 9:55 pm Post subject:

I learned something today. It's not cinco de mayo in the USA, it's "Sinco Demio" (http://tinyurl.com/3pcwhn, http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006042626131).
Rolling Eyes

MO39 · Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 10:34 pm Post subject:

I've always thought that the reason that Cinco de Mayo is so important to Mexican immigrants in the US is that so many of them were/are from the State of Puebla, where it is an important holiday.

sweeney66 · Joined: 26 Mar 2008 Posts: 147 Location: "home"

Why do you have to ask for queso on a quesadilla?

mapache · Joined: 12 Oct 2006 Posts: 202 Location: Villahermosa

and how many dillas are in a ques? Rolling Eyes

MELEE · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 1:55 pm Post subject:

In Oaxaca if it doesn't have quesillo in it, it's called an empanada--which solves that why but causes another: Why is it called en emPANada if there is no PAN in it? I personally think entortillada rolls rather nicely off the tongue.