"Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale." ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
France invaded Mexico a long time ago. Mexico kicked them out. At some point in that complicated historical drama, the fifth of May became significant. From what I've been able to gather, it's not so much a Mexican national holiday as it is a drinking celebration in the United States because the Californian Mexicans in the 1860s swelled with pride when they learned the Mexican army held off the French advance at the battle of Puebla. That's fine by most folks, I'd imagine, libertados estados unidos. It gives the average family a reason to go Mexico it up for dinner. Soccer moms can get wasted off margaritas and for one day tequila isn't just something to drink when you're depressed. Well, I guess not everyone drinks tequila when they're sad, but I sure do.
