What is celebrated on Cinco de Mayo?

Who Smarted? - Educational Podcast for Kids

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🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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What are some Cinco de Mayo traditions? What Mexican foods are fun to eat on Cinco de Mayo? When did Cinco de Mayo start? Have you started your FREE TRIAL of Who Smarted?+ for AD FREE listening, an EXTRA episode every week & bonus content? Sign up right in the Apple app, or directly at WhoSmarted.com and find out why more than 1,000 families are LOVING their subscription! Get official Who Smarted? Merch: tee-shirts, mugs, hoodies and more, at Who Smarted?

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0:00.0	Pts, hey, Smarty Pants, trusty narrator here.
0:06.0	Take a listen to the music playing and see if you can guess where I am right now.
0:10.4	Go ahead, shout it out.
0:12.0	I heard a Mardi Gras parade?
0:14.3	Excellent guess.
0:15.6	I heard someone say, oh, adikinseniana, another great guess.
0:19.9	Did anyone say my favorite family-owned Mexican restaurant?
0:23.4	The one from the salsa episode of Who Smarted?
0:26.2	If you did, you're right.
0:28.9	But today is not just any day.
0:31.6	It's actually one of their most popular days of the year.
0:35.6	And what day is that?
0:41.0	Why, it's May 5th, otherwise known as Cinco de Mayo, which in Spanish means, what, smarty pants? Does it mean, A, there's mayonnaise
0:49.1	in your sink, B, five jars of mayonnaise, C, the release of Star Wars.
0:55.6	Or D, the 5th of May.
0:57.9	Why, of course it means D, the 5th of May.
1:01.1	Cinco, meaning 5, and Mayo, meaning May.
1:04.5	The big question I have about Cinco de Mayo is,
1:07.4	why?
1:08.2	What makes this day special and worthy of celebration? If only there was someone
1:13.1	here who could help explain it all to us.
1:17.6	Bienvenito. Welcome back, trustee, my amigo. I'm so happy you've come to join us on this
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