Drugs and soybeans like Cinco de Mayo too!

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While waiting at the doctor’s today, I spotted a drug rep, black roller-bag in tow, taping 4-inch plastic sombreros onto two samples of medications to leave for the physicians. (Totally better than a pen or a key ring.)

A sector of the food industry, meanwhile, has an even jazzier suggestion for a way to celebrate this historic day:

‘Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with Soy,’ writes the Soyfoods Council.

It then proceeds with a useful history lesson:

Cinco de Mayo, or May 5, celebrates the victory of the Mexican army over the French at the Battle of Puebla. That battle came to represent Mexican unity and patriotism; not to be mistaken with Mexico’s Independence Day, which is September 16. In the United States and Mexico, Cinco de Mayo is a great celebration of freedom and friendship.

This May, Cinco de Mayo offers an opportunity to do something healthy for you and your friends by introducing soy into your diet. Soy has numerous health benefits to improve your lifestyle and is readily available in many different forms to help reinvigorate your favorite foods. Soy can take on the taste and texture of almost any food, which makes it an ideal alternative, but is also great on its own!

So there you go. Hope your own festivities manage to surpass even these ones!

-- Rosie Mestel