Cinco de Mayo 2020

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Anyone have any plans for Cinco de Mayo? What's your favorite Mexican restaurant where you like to celebrate the holiday?

Not sure if I'll make it tomorrow or not, but my favorite Mexican place is La Parrilla in West Knoxville.
 
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Tempted to order a family fajita kit from Chuey's, although I figure it will be a zoo even if it is curbside takeout only. Kind of ironic that we've allowed the restaurants to sell to-go cocktails but the open container law is still in effect.
 
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El sombrero, and the best coke I've ever had in a restaurant
 
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I'm convinced all the Mexican places around me have the same suppliers, they all taste the same.
 
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Freak said:
Anyone have any plans for Cinco de Mayo? What's your favorite Mexican restaurant where you like to celebrate the holiday?

Not sure if I'll make it tomorrow or not, but my favorite Mexican place is La Parrilla in West Knoxville.
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Love Parrilla, and I can literally walk to the new location.

There's a good one here in Loudon -- Cinco Amigo's. Just had lunch fajitas from there. Now, a quick nap before afternoon patients!
 
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kiddiedoc said:
Love Parrilla, and I can literally walk to the new location.

There's a good one here in Loudon -- Cinco Amigo's. Just had lunch fajitas from there. Now, a quick nap before afternoon patients!
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Why I never want to be the first patient after lunch, or on Monday morning during football season.
 
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My sister picked up food and margaritas to go from La Fiesta tonight. Apparently there was a decent crowd of people waiting outside to get a table and they were all huddled together with no masks. I guess they really wanted Corona with their meal.
 
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Went to an food truck,grab and burrito and quesadilla, w/ an bottle of Mountain Dew Baja Blast Zero!
 
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My favorite mexican restaurant is El Chico's in North Knoxville. They have my favorite burrito ever, the Tex-Mex burrito.
 
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My wife and I had our first date on Cinco de Mayo, 29 years ago. Went to a K-Jays game at old Bill Meyer Stadium.

Crowd was light that evening and we picked a spot behind home plate a good ways up the stands to have a little space to ourselves. I'd bought a program and they called out numbers throughout the game to win prizes if the numbers in your program matched. So I happened to get a match and the prize was the opportunity to go down on the field for three attempts to throw a baseball through a hole in a big board — get one in, win a free pizza; two in gets a pizza party; three in and everyone in the stadium gets a free pizza.

I remember thinking, I played baseball all my life, wasn't that far removed from it then, it was a good opportunity to impress my new date by showing out a hero and getting everybody free pizza.

So the time comes, I go down to the field, they have my name up on the scoreboard and the crowd's behind me. The hole in the board was about the size of a trash can lid and the distance on the first toss was a bit less than pitcher's distance , maybe 50 feet. No problemo. Got my cocky smile on, throw the first ball and Bonk! it hits the board.

I lose the crowd instantly — they just lost their damn pizzas and they were enjoying letting me know about it. I could not believe I'd missed that easy throw and now it's getting in my head. The K-Jays girl moves me a good bit closer for my second throw. I can still save this, get a pizza party... Bonk!

Now I'm sweating, the crowd is surprisingly loud with their razzing and I'm feeling my date's eyes rolling all the way down there. The girl moves me up again and I could have taken three giant steps and dropped the ball through the hole. On an average day I could drop kick the damn ball through there from this distance without a second thought. But this time I'm throwing.

Bonk!

Could. Not. Believe it.

The crowd is loud and absolutely loving it; I must have had some swagger showing when I first walked out there. The K-Jays girl hands me the ball as a souvenir and now I have to make the long walk of shame back to my date, getting verbally abused the whole way. All I can do is grin and bear it.

About halfway through the trek, some little boy, maybe eight years old, steps out into the aisle in front of me and I stop. He looks up at me and says graciously, "I think you did real good." What a sweet and thoughtful gesture. I wanted to punch that sweet little boy right in the face. I didn't need some brat's pity to seal the deal on my humiliation. But I just smiled and said thanks and kept going.

Finally, I got to our section and there she was, way up there waiting on me, doing a great job of looking like ehhh, what the hell, who cares. Despite all the abuse I had just gotten, that walk up the stairs was the longest and most shameful of it all. But she was awesome and we had a good laugh. And four years later she married me.

And I still have that damned baseball.
 
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pismonque said:
My wife and I had our first date on Cinco de Mayo, 29 years ago. Went to a K-Jays game at old Bill Meyer Stadium.

Crowd was light that evening and we picked a spot behind home plate a good ways up the stands to have a little space to ourselves. I'd bought a program and they called out numbers throughout the game to win prizes if the numbers in your program matched. So I happened to get a match and the prize was the opportunity to go down on the field for three attempts to throw a baseball through a hole in a big board — get one in, win a free pizza; two in gets a pizza party; three in and everyone in the stadium gets a free pizza.

I remember thinking, I played baseball all my life, wasn't that far removed from it then, it was a good opportunity to impress my new date by showing out a hero and getting everybody free pizza.

So the time comes, I go down to the field, they have my name up on the scoreboard and the crowd's behind me. The hole in the board was about the size of a trash can lid and the distance on the first toss was a bit less than pitcher's distance , maybe 50 feet. No problemo. Got my cocky smile on, throw the first ball and Bonk! it hits the board.

I lose the crowd instantly — they just lost their damn pizzas and they were enjoying letting me know about it. I could not believe I'd missed that easy throw and now it's getting in my head. The K-Jays girl moves me a good bit closer for my second throw. I can still save this, get a pizza party... Bonk!

Now I'm sweating, the crowd is surprisingly loud with their razzing and I'm feeling my date's eyes rolling all the way down there. The girl moves me up again and I could have taken three giant steps and dropped the ball through the hole. On an average day I could drop kick the damn ball through there from this distance without a second thought. But this time I'm throwing.

Bonk!

Could. Not. Believe it.

The crowd is loud and absolutely loving it; I must have had some swagger showing when I first walked out there. The K-Jays girl hands me the ball as a souvenir and now I have to make the long walk of shame back to my date, getting verbally abused the whole way. All I can do is grin and bear it.

About halfway through the trek, some little boy, maybe eight years old, steps out into the aisle in front of me and I stop. He looks up at me and says graciously, "I think you did real good." What a sweet and thoughtful gesture. I wanted to punch that sweet little boy right in the face. I didn't need some brat's pity to seal the deal on my humiliation. But I just smiled and said thanks and kept going.

Finally, I got to our section and there she was, way up there waiting on me, doing a great job of looking like ehhh, what the hell, who cares. Despite all the abuse I had just gotten, that walk up the stairs was the longest and most shameful of it all. But she was awesome and we had a good laugh. And four years later she married me.

And I still have that damned baseball.
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Great story
 
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Yesterday, I applied sealant to cracks in my driveway. I used a vacation day to do this. In the evening, the missus and I listened to Santana while we made crunchy ground beef tacos. Yeah, buddy, I sure know how to party...
 
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