Let's Fiesta🇲🇽Mexican Independence Day Taco Tues & Lotería Margaritas PASADENA

Cross posted with our friends from “Local Ladies”

Friendship, fantastic food and a fabulous time!! VIVA México!! It’s time for a fiesta!! 💃🏻🇲🇽🪅🥇🏆

WE START OUR FIRST GAME AT 4:30 PM SHARP

PLEASE BE VERY COURTEOUS TO OUR SERVERS. WE ARE GOING TO BE A LARGE GROUP. PLEASE MAKE YOUR BEST ATTEMPT TO ORDER EVERYTHING AT ONCE SO THE SERVICE CAN BE EXPEDITED AND GOES SMOOTHLY FOR EVERYONE WHILE PLAYING LOTERÍA.

PLEASE WEAR SOMETHING IN THE SPIRIT OF OUR MEXICAN FIESTA. PRIZE FOR THE BEST OUTFIT!!

Ideas:

• Mexican dress (peasant-style/floral)
• Mexican blouse (peasant-style/floral)
• Mexican scarf or shawl (anything colorful)
• Mexican sarape
• Mexican sombrero
• Mexican flower hair band (like the ones you wear for Dia de Los Muertos)
• Mexican jewelry (turquoise or colorful)

🍹HAPPY HOUR & TACO TUESDAY🌮
Let’s celebrate enjoying tacos & Margaritas while playing Lotería! I hosted this event a few years ago at Margaritas and it was so much fun!! All their tacos are delicious, filling and only $2.75 with any beverage (alcohol or non-alcohol). My fave is potato 🥔 & shredded beef🥩. YUMILICIOUS!! 😋

Menu
https://margaritaspasadena.com/menu

Margaritas Mexican Restaurant has been sharing authentic Mexican dishes in Pasadena since 1977.

NO SEPARATE CHECKS. CASH ONLY IS REQUIRED FOR LARGER GROUP SIZES.

🔺TO JOIN $5 IN CASH IS R-E-Q-U-I-R-E-D IN SINGLE BILLS
We’re playing for prizes 🎁 & tacos 🌮.

WE HAVE RESERVATIONS. PLEASE KEEP YOUR RSVP UPDATED ✔️
Happy Hours (with rare exceptions) don’t have an RSVP deposit. Please be courteous and update if you need to cancel. It’s the only fair chance others have in getting into events.

Short explanation how to play
https://youtu.be/QbAuUVe0W9c?si=04IyCl0NQHQdjN5i

In-depth history of the game dating back to the 15th Century and how to play (13 minute video)
https://youtu.be/npxfphuAbYU?si=EgOtSwU_n_ndjHCg

History of Mexican Independence
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_War_of_Independence

MEXICAN LOTERÍA (Bingo)
Did you know that the game Lotería was first created in Italy? Its origins are not Mexican as everyone believes! Another misconception like believing Cinco de Mayo is Independence Day!

The game originated in Italy in the 15th century and was brought to New Spain (modern Mexico) in 1769. In the beginning, lotería was a hobby of the upper classes, but eventually it became a tradition at Mexican fairs.

Players will quickly realize, how much more visually and intellectually engaging and fun it is to play Lotería than American Bingo. The true authentic way to play Lotería is to have the announcer (cantor) give an improvised short poem or familiar phrase alluding to the image on the card. Example: “The coat for the poor” for the image of the sun, or “The one who dies by the mouth” for the image of the fish. The true way to play is far more challenging and engaging.

We will play both the “gringo” and “Mexican” version to add to the fun and excitement!! Get ready for a lot of laughter!!

Each player uses a chip -often a bean to mark the corresponding spot on their tabla. The first player to appropriately fill the tabla in a predefined pattern will shout “Lotería!” to win the game & prize!!

MEETUP POLICY
🔺 No drop-ins. RSVP Meetup members only
🔺 3 under 24-hr cancellations/3-months out
🔺 3 failures to pay (fee events)/6-months out
🔺 2 no-shows/1-year out
🔺 Excessive cancellations perm. removed