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Why Do People Celebrate Cinco De Mayo?
History About The Mexican Holiday
May 5 has arrived, and with it come extravagant Cinco de Mayo
celebrations around the country.
The day is widely recognized as a time to drink margaritas,
eat guacamole and celebrate Mexico's cultural heritage,
many people know relatively little about the true
meaning of the Mexican holiday.
The holiday is celebrated more in the United States than elsewhere.
The world’s largest Cinco de Mayo celebration takes place in Los Angeles.
Known as the Festival de Fiesta Broadway,
the 2017 event was expected to bring an estimated 300,000 people.
The U.S. drinks an exorbitant amount of tequila to celebrate the holiday.
In 2014, Americans bought 12.3 million cases of tequila for Cinco de Mayo,
twice as much as was consumed in Mexico, according to the Daily Meal.
About 43 percent of all cocktails ordered on the holiday in the U.S. were margaritas.
Americans also eat a ton of avocados on the holiday.
More than 81 million avocados are consumed on Cinco de Mayo,
according to the California Avocado Commission.
Costumed revelers dance through the streets of south Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania during the annual Carnaval de Puebla,
a traditional Mexican carnival celebration that re-enacts
the Battle of Cinco de Mayo,
