San Diego Mexican Restaurant Offers Special Halloween Chips!

Oct. 22, 2012 - PRLog -- In the tradition of Halloween, this San Diego Mexican Restaurant offers specially colored Halloween chips for their customers. When you make your own chips you can easily adapt to any special holiday and make whatever color is traditional. For three generations El Indio Mexican Restaurant has been famous for their homemade chips as well as their tortillas. It’s only natural then that they would add a little color for special holidays.

Halloween is considered a fun holiday and is mostly for children, but it has a deeper meaning for many. For children and some adults it is a time for parties and costumes and trick or treating. In the past few years it has evolved more into parties for children because it is much safer to take your child to a party rather than let them out in the night to go trick or treating. For some, Halloween is a time to remember departed loved ones and saints.

Around 2,000 years ago the Celts, who lived in the United Kingdom celebrated Halloween as the end of their year. Their New Year began on November 1 and the New Year signaled the end of summer and the harvest season and the beginning of a long hard winter. In those days many people and weaker livestock would not survive the winter. The Celts killed off the weaker livestock for the festival.

For centuries superstitions about witches and black cats made Halloween seem a bit scary for some. Black cats in particular were thought to be evil and were killed by the thousands. It is thought that it may have added to the plague since there were fewer natural enemies to the rats that carried the plague.

In Mexico and other Latin American countries, All Saints Day and All Souls Day is a three day holiday beginning on October 31 and ending November 2. In most areas of Mexico November 1 is set aside to honor dead children and November 2 is set aside to honor those who died as adults.

Today in America it is more about parties and festivities. For many the tradition of going door to door and receiving a treat has given way to parties at most malls or in people’s homes or other locations. Children probably have fewer sugar highs and cavities as a result.

As a favorite San Diego Mexican restaurant, El Indio caters many parties for all occasions. They have a great patio where they cater parties and they are available to come to any location to cater any party with great food and special Halloween chips. For more information on their catering services, please visit: http://www.elindiocatering.com/