It is a little known fact that since its inception, the state of Mexico has had a voracious appetite for the condiment mayonnaise. Indeed, this desire to have mayonnaise with all meals has influenced the very economy and national psyche.
In 1858 the Mexican government struck a deal with the government of the United States to have a supply of mayonnaise delivered at once, at wholesale price, to last the entire country of Mexico for one year.
It was to be delivered by ship from the centre of mayonnaise production at the time, New York. The ship would travel down the East Coast of the US, round the Florida Keys, across the Gulf of Mexico and land on the Yucatan peninsula to be distributed.
However a great storm struck the convoy of ships carrying this mayonnaise in the middle of the Gulf, and all of them perished.
Such was the sate of national grief that the President of Mexico at the time ordered a day of national mourning that would be observed every year for time eternal. This would make everyone remember that these ships carrying mayo were sank, and to remember the national depression that remained after wards.
It would be known as the Cinco de Mayo.
I'll see myself out.
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