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Live in NYC? Want Free Tequila?

By Lilit Marcus / May 4, 2009

Cinco de Mayo may be a holiday about Mexican Independence, but that doesn’t stop Americans from celebrating it as an ode to tacos, pinatas, and copious drinking. Well, if you live in New York, an establishment called Tequilaville (I’d make a Jimmy Buffett joke, but not enough Southerners are on this website to find it funny) on Vanderbilt Avenue between 42nd and 43rd streets is giving away pastrami burritos and kosher tequila. The tequila, Agave 99, is produced in Mexico under the supervision of a rabbi. 

The free stuff starts getting handed out at 11:00 AM. Mexican songs sung in Spanish and Yiddish will be sung. Tequilaville is super close to Grand Central Station, for those of you who commute. I’ll be taking the day off to participate in the festivities, if anyone cares to join me.

[Hat tip to Midtown Lunch.]

 

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  • By Kokapelye 5/5/09 at 10:49 a.m. UTC

    "Not enough Southerners"!? Are you looking at our profiles, Lilit?

    Even so, surely some of you yanqui hipsters have taken off your iPods when visiting Bubbe in Florida!?

    Actually, el Perplejo, 16 September is called DĂ­a de Independencia, and it’s one of five Fiestas Patrias —with 5° de Mayo— celebrated by Mexicans. El Grito is the proclamation of war against the Spanish read by Miguel Hidalgo in 1810, and read in commemoration every 16 September.

    This morning’s "spotlight video" on the iGoogle homepage is last year’s rocketboom segment for 5° de Mayo, and gives a good overview of the history.

  • Dan Herman
    By The_Perplexed 5/4/09 at 4:01 p.m. UTC

    The Mexican Independance day is Grito de Dolores on September 16. Cinco de Mayo celebrates a victory over the French fifty years after Mexico’s independence. But as you correctly pointed out, it’s more about engaging in stereotypes than actual commemoration.

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