Friday, May 05, 2006

Cinco de Mayo


I find the whole pinata thing disturbing. Children are encouraged to beat an animal or person with a club until their guts are literally spilled out. Albeit it is a paper animal or person, and there is candy inside, but still.

Plus, I think the pinata is a Chinese invention anyway, and what haven't they invented? But it makes sense; I heard they tenderize their dog meat over there while the dog is still alive. Ingenious time saver!

3 comments:

Valerie said...

me loves to beat things with a bat.

Peter Matthes said...

This from the girl who has had thoughts of killing her goldfish and breaking the neck of her beloved Doodle.

anne altman said...

true, true, same girl. but doodle really probably had it comin' to her, and the pinata is like totally innocent. those things barely have a chance to live before they're aborted.

What?