Cinco de What? Mayonnaise? 

Living in South Florida, I’ve had ample chances to celebrate Cinco de Mayo, which I assumed was a Mexican holiday of some historical event, presumably the day it won its independence from Spain.

Yes and no.

Cinco de Mayo does celebrate a military victory, but not against the Spanish. It was a victory over France at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. In fact, Mexico had achieved independence from Spain fifty years earlier.

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