Cinco de Mayo!

WOOOOOOO! Hey, everybody, happy Cinco de Mayo! I just got back from a beer bar, where I worked my way through a couple of Coronas and a Negro Modelo... never let it be said that I'm not in touch with Mexican culture.
Interestingly, I read an article this morning (maybe in the Houston paper online? Yep) which said that Cinco de Mayo is something that is celebrated very quietly south of the border. It's apparently only a crazy drinking/eating orgy of a holiday here in the US -- in Mexico, it's more of an opportunity to say "Hey, we're our own country. Sweet!" It is funny that we've coopted it as this excuse to drink a lot of beer and eat some salsa. It seems like we do that to a lot of holidays -- what can we eat today that will celebrate the heritage of the Irish/Jews/Pilgrims/and today, the Mexicans?
Actually, it's 5/5/5... which makes me feel like I should be doing something extra-special to celebrate. But I won't... I'll just be sad I didn't do anything crazy, just like I felt like I under-celebrated my golden birthday a couple of weeks ago.