BS: Happy Cinco de Derby!

Subject: BS: Happy Cinco de Derby!
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 05 May 12 - 09:07 AM

How will u celebrate?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Cinco de Derby!
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 05 May 12 - 10:07 AM

The Epsom Derby isn't until the first weekend in June. Perhaps you mean the Kentucky Derby?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Cinco de Derby!
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 05 May 12 - 10:30 AM

Yeah The Kentucky Derby and Cinco de Mayo are both today.

Tequila juleps anyone?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Cinco de Derby!
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 05 May 12 - 01:27 PM

Cinco de Mayo has become a more widely celebrated holiday in U. S. cities with Mexican immigrant population than it ever was in Mexico. It is spreading to other Hispanic communities as a convenient holiday.

As a lover of Mexican food, VIVA MEXICO!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Cinco de Derby!
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 05 May 12 - 01:43 PM

I hope you had a super day for your holiday. I've never tasted tequila, but I seem to remember you have to put salt round the rim of the glass?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Cinco de Derby!
From: Paul Burke
Date: 05 May 12 - 01:48 PM

Do they call it the Kentucky Darby or the Kentucky Durby? I'll have to ask the sarvants.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Cinco de Derby!
From: gnu
Date: 05 May 12 - 02:05 PM

Eliza... yes... but, more commonly you lick your hand to the side of your thumb knuckle and shake some salt on it, take a shot, lick the salt, bite a lemon wedge and throw up. Two shots will make you feel like you could rip trees out of the ground. Four shots will make you lie on the ground. I drank four shots of it once. I like beer.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Cinco de Derby!
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 05 May 12 - 02:26 PM

LOL gnu, sounds as if I should try some, I need energy like that! Just to have the oomph to pull up a few weeds would do me fine!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Cinco de Derby!
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 05 May 12 - 03:24 PM

On Cinco de Mayo in the few southern states that I have seen it celebrated, the beverage of choice is a margarita. An yes Eliza you were correct about the salt around the rim.

Tequila shots as gnu described are limited to "frat boy" types who like to drink in a showy manner.

My favorite way to take tequila is to sip a high quality brand such as Patron from a shot glass. But that is a very expensive way to drink.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Cinco de Derby!
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 05 May 12 - 05:19 PM

Mint juleps Daddio!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Cinco de Derby!
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 05 May 12 - 05:32 PM

Real Mint Julep


1 part good Kentucky Bourbon, like Eagle Rare
2 parts cold filtered water
mix in heaping teaspoon sugar
Crush in several mint leaves and mix
Fill with crushed ice
Crown with mint sprig

Should be served in a metal julep tumbler so the ice will frost the outside surface

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Cinco de Derby!
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 May 12 - 08:37 PM

Too much water. And it should be fresh from the spring behind the house, not from some bottle or tap. Sit on the veranda and watch the servants and poor folks work.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Cinco de Derby!
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 05 May 12 - 08:42 PM

We went to Ls Costa Mexican restaurant,watched the Derby there, then to the beach to watch the "Super Moon" which because of the clouds was not so super.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Cinco de Derby!
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 05 May 12 - 08:51 PM

I celebrated by going to Salem, Massachusetts! Nothing to do with Cinco de Mayo or the Kentucky Derby. My cousin and her roommate both turn(ed) 60 this year, so they decided to split the difference between their two birth dates and celebrate today.

On the way home I stopped for take-out at a locally-owned Mexican restaurant which I go to about four times a year and always on Cinco de Mayo. It was started by a Navy veteran who had been stationed in Texas and often made trips across the border where he made friends and learned to cook Mexican food. A heavy smoker, he passed away a few years ago from a variety of lung problems: asthma, COPD, and lung cancer. One of the cooks took over the business and last year renamed it and minimized the menu. (Originally it had been mostly Mexican foods, then later the original owner added barbecue and Tex-Mex items. The new owner returned to Mexican foods only.) As I pulled into the parking lot today, I thought it was strangely, though not completely, empty for Cinco de Mayo when it is usually packed at any hour on this date. Then I saw the realtor's sign on the door. Yup. Closed. Out of business.

And I haven't heard who won the Kentucky Derby.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Cinco de Derby!
From: gnu
Date: 05 May 12 - 09:01 PM

I think a horse won.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Cinco de Derby!
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 05 May 12 - 09:14 PM

I'll Have Another.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Cinco de Derby!
From: Bill D
Date: 05 May 12 - 10:25 PM

Not until the Preakness

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Cinco de Derby!
From: Leadfingers
Date: 06 May 12 - 07:05 AM

In Old Mexico

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Cinco de Derby!
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 May 12 - 05:00 PM

AND they found a body in the stables! Wow! A come-from-behind win and a murder!

Why does this sound like a hackneyed mystery novel?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Cinco de Derby!
From: EBarnacle
Date: 07 May 12 - 07:36 AM

Lady Hillary and I kept it simple. We wore the colors of the Mexican flag while we worked at our regional rummage sale.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Cinco de Derby!
From: CupOfTea
Date: 07 May 12 - 05:32 PM

'Twas happy here. Our contra dance band was encouraged to wear a sombrero if we had one.

I put on my very fancy flowery hat, and went Derby-hatted instead, singing "Yes, we have no sombrero" to the tune of "yes, we have no bananas" during the break. Shame we didn't have any distinctly Kentucky tunes to play for the dance.

Joanne in Cleveland

Subject: RE: BS: Happy Cinco de Derby!
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 07 May 12 - 07:02 PM

When I heard about a body being found in a stable, the mystery novels I thought about were those by Dick Francis.