10 Ways to Celebrate Cinco de Mayo on a Budget

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Fun things you can do on Cinco de Mayo that won't break the bank.

1) Learn Spanish

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Expand your horizons from the comfort of your own couch.

3) Take a virtual trip to Mexico (in the World Book encyclopedia)

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Fun and educational!!

5) Eat nachos til you puke

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According to the Nacho Historian, Frank Lopez, Nachos were invented by Ignacio “Nacho” Anaya in 1943 in Piedras Negras, Mexico when a bunch of Gringos visited El Club de Victory, demanding delicious Mexican cuisine as well as beverage.

You can read the whole story here

6) Wear a mustache for a day

Why?  Because it’s fun. 

Which mustache style are you?

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Every man (and sometimes woman) has their own mustache style befitting to their personality. For Cinco de Mayo, El Guapo recommends the “major” or the “Gringo”

For more options, check out El Guapo’s Mustache Guide below!!!

When the Kentucky Derby Falls on Cinco de Mayo

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Pink polo + seersucker + El Guapo mustache = trouble.

7) Go to the Donkey Show

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Giddy-up Zonky!

8) Eat Delicious Mexican Food

Yum!!

The following Mexican restaurants have been approved by Joe Biden and are Swine Flu Free

Taco Burrito King

811 W Jackson Blvd, Chicago, IL 60607

Yet another Burrito joint. This one’s pretty good They grill the burritos to make them toasty warm.

Yet another Burrito joint. This one’s pretty good They grill the burritos to make them toasty warm.

GO HERE

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La Pasadita has the best carne asada tacos outside east LA and it’s like $6 for three.

La Pasadita Restaurant

1132 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL 60622

Awesome tacos!!

El Guapo recommended

Awesome tacos!!

El Guapo recommended

Come Join, me, Lou Dobbs, as we celebrate the fact that we're not Mexicans!

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What I imagine Lou Dobb’s Cinco de Mayo Party invite looks like.

10) Finish off the night with baby-free sex

In 1951, Mexican chemist Luis Miramontes, then a college student invented the birth control pill.  Odelay!

No Partner?

No problem.  Not only did Mexican, Guillermo González Camarena invent the first color television system 1942, future Mexicans invented Telemundo which is the perfect companion for lonely nights as well as all your meteorologic needs

 

2) Immerse yourself in Mexican Art and Literature

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Once you have mastered the Rosetta Stone Spanish Levels one and two, you are fully prepared to watch and understand Mexican documentaries

Celebrating Mexican culture and history through a collection of more than 5,500 works of art spanning two millennia. (Regrettably, Three Amigos is not part of the collection).

Celebrating Mexican culture and history through a collection of more than 5,500 works of art spanning two millennia. (Regrettably, Three Amigos is not part of the collection).

4) Adopt a Spanish Sounding Name

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adopt a Spanish sounding name for the day like Carmen San Diego or Roberto Thompson.

Insist that your friends call you by this adopted name all day.

Me Eating Nachos

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No Cinco de Mayo celebration is complete without artificial cheese sauce and canned jalepenos.

These Nachos were pretty good because of the dual cheese dipping sauce containers. (most ballpark nachos only have ONE cheese dipping sauce container, leaving you angry and your chips under saucified)

Sometimes mustaches make you look like a douche

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or in this case, a bigger douche.

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El Guapo says this costume sucks. The Mustache is too big, the sombrero too small and the donkey appears very uninterested in the whole charade.

Lincoln Park Zoo

2200 N Cannon Dr, Chicago, IL 60614

Genaral Admission: free to the public. Donkey Show Extravaganza costs extra.

Genaral Admission: free to the public. Donkey Show Extravaganza costs extra.

Picante Taqueria Restaurant

2016 1/2 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622

This place is good. They have good burritos, fish tacos and gringo tacos (think taco bell crunchy shell)

This place is good. They have good burritos, fish tacos and gringo tacos (think taco bell crunchy shell)

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Joe Biden checking for Swine Flu at T-bell.

NOT HERE

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Food should not cost 79 cents.

Taco Bell

17601 Halstd, Chicago, IL 60607

Fourth meal = no bueno

Fourth meal = no bueno

9) Avoid Lou Dobbs at all costs

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He hates Mexican people and is a big downer on Cinco de Mayo.

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god that donkey is such a party pooper