Sir_Loin_of_Beef
Chef Extraordinaire
Like I said above, it's just another excuse for overaged adolescent Americans to eat and drink alcohol to excess.Not just in the Southwest. In California, there are huge celebrations as well. When I was still in San Jose, the celebrations downtown took a bad turn when shop windows were all broken out. They started an alcohol ban the next year.
And even here in the Washington state....well, let's just say that you really don't want to go to a Taco Bell on May 5th. I was 30 minutes in the drive thru. But I didn't have anything better to do anyway.