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[Amon37]

It's 12 dollars for tacos and a margarita and 10 dollars for tacos and a beer not just the tacos. Still too expensive though.

 

[UnemployedVillain]

You should probably not be offended on behalf of Mexicans when you're not one
Although I am legit offended people like hard shell tacos

 

[Ravensmash]

$12 tacos is pretty offensive

Someone was complaining in another thread that Mexican food was typically seen as too cheap.

Progress is being made?

 

[Meatfist]

It's corny AF, but I wouldn't call it offensive.

What a confusing shitshow of an ad, though. Are they 12 dollar tacos? Is a taco and margarita 12 dollars? Is it multiple tacos and a drink, as depicted by the picture? Why the fuck is a sushi joint serving tacos?

So many questions

 

[Gutek]

Not Mexican, so can't speak to the mustache and sombrero. But fuck hard taco shells, that offends me as an eater of things.

 

[Snowybreak]

Kirin? Asahi?? Burn it all down.

Also nothing wrong with a taco dorado.

Well it is a sushi restaurant.

 

[ThatStupidLion]

Jesus christos - are you gen z op?

 

[The Lone Courier]

As a black guy I say no its ok.

 

[Spaced Harrier]

No one parties like the 'ra?

Wow that has a different meaning here.

 

[Forerunner]

How many tacos do you get for $12?

 

[Amon37]

Jesus christos - are you gen z op?

Uh no, I didn't feel they needed to even send a follow up email apologizing, I thought I get GAF opinion.

Edit: it's 3 tacos, pork, poke, and shrimp for the poster above

 

[Silent Chief]

I find Cinco De Mayo to be a weird thing to celebrate especially outside of Mexico.

Let's see. It's the commemoration of the victory of the Mexican army over the French army in 1862. The next year the French took over Mexico City and installed an emperor who was executed 3 years later.

It's possible that the 1862 victory prevented the French from helping the Confederates. I doubt that's what the American are celebrating.

So why go all Mexican in May and ignore the Cry of Dolores in September?

 

[ldcommando]

Post on Twitter, op. I'm sure you will get some reasonable responses.

 

[Dylan Sexbang]

As someone who is half Mexican, I don't care. I like our stereotypes: good food, hard workers, and sexy staches. I am none of these things.

 

[Forerunner]

Edit: it's 3 tacos, pork, poke, and shrimp for the poster above

That's actually not that bad of a deal.

 

[Darth Pinche]

I'm more offended by the "Emperor's Margarita" Whose Empire is this?

 

[jonezer4]

Is there a term besides "Mexican" that you prefer? Something less offensive?

Spoiler

-Michael Scott

 

[CarpeDeezNutz]

Another Mexican chimining in, that Juan pun gets used to desth but I laughed.

All of it is just so corny though.

 

[not psycho]

I'm full Mexican and everything I see here is offensive, especially the hard shell tacos.

 

[Snowybreak]

I'm more offended by the "Emperor's Margarita" Whose Empire is this?

Japan's.

 

[Raptor]

La Araña Zapatista says No.

LMAO

That mustache

 

[wenis]

This generic ass dad joke being posted 4 times is offensive.

dad joke? i was joking?

 

[Fat4all]

So why go all Mexican in May and ignore the Cry of Dolores in September?

september already has Oktoberfest for Americans to have a social excuse to get drunk

may has cinco de mayo to have a social excuse to get drunk

 

[Dude Abides]

Why did they use a 20s barbershop quartet mustache?

 

[AlexBasch]

I'm full Mexican and everything I see here is offensive, especially the hard shell tacos.

A huevo.

 

[.JayZii]

I'm more offended by the "Emperor's Margarita" Whose Empire is this?

The Japanese's, I guess?

 

[jmdajr]

Nah

 

[VeryGooster]

Keep calm and have some Mexican lemoñadé

 

[bonesmccoy]

I find Cinco de Mayo to be increasingly dumb and pointless. The whole affair is pretty offensive in the same way that St. Patrick's day is.

Which is that it's more annoying than offensive to those of that ethnicity/ancestry?

Because holy shit is it ever when you have a gratuitously Irish name.

 

[Negaduck]

Full Mexican.

That price for tacos is offensive. Other than that I don't find any of it offensive.

 

[Days like these...]

Hey, hard shells are ok, sometimes...

It's like self-contained nachos.

But yeah soft are always superior if, and only if, whoever is cooking them toasts the tortilla correctly.

Hard shell tacos are not ok or authentic. If you want you can fry some corn tortillas if you want that crispy texture.

 

[Raptor]

Im full mexican with ancestors back as back as moctezuma and got conquered by Cortez and nothing in that is offensive.

 

[Gabriel_Logan]

I'm more offended by the "Emperor's Margarita" Whose Empire is this?

I'm guessing the French?

 

[Gentleman Jack]

I'm guessing the French?

Maximilian I was Austrian.

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

Not offensive since it doesn't feature that piss-water they call Corona.

 

[Skellig Gra]

Maybe "no Juan" is a tiny bit offensive but it's really not bad at all. Oh and hard shell tacos, fuck that.

 

[Gabriel_Logan]

Maximilian I was Austrian.

Whoops wrong European. I got him and Napoleon III mixed up.

 

[Draper]

This seems like something you would have to go out of your way to be offended about unless you are overly sensitive to shitty puns.

Neogaf™

 

[EatinOlives]

I find Cinco De Mayo to be a weird thing to celebrate especially outside of Mexico.

Let's see. It's the commemoration of the victory of the Mexican army over the French army in 1862. The next year the French took over Mexico City and installed an emperor who was executed 3 years later.

It's possible that the 1862 victory prevented the French from helping the Confederates. I doubt that's what the American are celebrating.

So why go all Mexican in May and ignore the Cry of Dolores in September?

The Cinco de Mayo celebrations in the US have taken a completely different form of their own. It's more of a generic Mexican Heritage Day among Americans of Mexican descent, for gringos it's an excuse to get loaded (see also: St. Patrick's Day).

Hilarity ensues when full-grown adults get surprised it's not the day of independence in Mexico, even though people point that out every single year that it's practically a meme at this point.

 

[GameplayWhore]

Maybe "no Juan" is a tiny bit offensive but it's really not bad at all. Oh and hard shell tacos, fuck that.

I feel that people tend to conflate "offensive" with "embarrassingly stupid" at times. As an occasional Juan (at least when I'm speaking with people in Spanish, a practice that as a New Yorker I've let fall wayyyy too out of use), I would probably fit that joke more in column B.

 

[Skellig Gra]

I feel that people tend to conflate "offensive" with "embarrassingly stupid" at times. As an occasional Juan (at least when I'm speaking with people in Spanish, a practice that as a New Yorker I've let fall wayyyy too out of use), I would probably fit that joke more in column B.

Hard to disagree with you. It's a stretch.

 

[Amagon]

I'm a brownie and the only thing offensive I see is the goddamn pricing.

 

[NandoGip]

Not offensive just annoying

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

Japanese beer on May White Drunk Day

Tragic

 

[norm9]

Shameful!

 

[Ultryx]

This is not offensive.

 

[Amory]

You gotta pick your battles lol

 

[Stumpokapow]

Is it a hate crime? No, no it's not.

Is it a cheesy stereotype being employed to sell garbage? Yes, yes it is.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

I'm Mexican and no Estes chingando, OP.

 

[SatansReverence]

Someone somewhere will find some reason to be offended by it and act like they have some human right to go about there day and never get offended by anything.

Or, someone who shouldn't be offended by it will get offended by it on behalf of those who they think should be offended by it.