What do you guys to with the white rubbery thing after drinking your mozzarella?
It’s great for throwing at people
I enjoyed the corn husk with my first tamale. Wouldn’t repeat that mistake, since I doubt I’d be as lucky.
Had christmas dinner at the construction company i worked at when i was 19, did the same thing and reeeaaallly tried to eat the husk, no one said a thing but when i looked at the guy who brought them to ask about it he busted out laughing along with most others.
It indeed was the best tamale i ever had once i unwrapped it. I think the shame added extra flavor.
“The shame” I imagine you just walking around sulking the rest of the day, shoulders hunched over and trying to avoid your coworkers for fear of being made fun of.
#HereLiesBreezyRestInHusk
If it’s anything like every Blue Collar job I’ve ever worked
They will never let him live it down ever.
Hey look it’s Husk Boy. Whatcha doing Husk Boy? How’d that tamale taste (6 years ago)?
I learned this when I moved to NM. Fortunately, I saw others take the husk off before I got mine, or I would have tried to eat it like a burrito. Ya don’t know what ya don’t know. You just try to adapt past experience that seems related, make adjustments as you go, and hope for the best.
that is the most funniest thing ive ever seen :)
I was today years old when I learned you’re not supposed to eat the corn leaf
I’ve never seen a tamale, let alone eaten one, but I was still pretty sure the corn husk wasn’t supposed to be eaten.
You are missing out my friend. Seriously one of the top foods
the closest “mexican” restaurant (they fuck up nachos, somehow) is in the other city, the closest taco bell is in the capital city, the closest mexican food place i’d have access to that wouldn’t make an actual Mexican person cry would probably be somewhere in Spain? i assume
:(
Tbf, nachos is a newish dish created specifically for americans, so that wouldn’t be my test for the quality of a mexican restaurant
This is a nightmare
I’ve had a couple over the years and was totally unimpressed. It wasn’t bad, just kinda bland mush. I guess it must vary a lot given how you’re rating it
Done right, it’s an amazing, flavorful filling with a relatively thin shell of special ground and leavened corn flour around the outside. Most of the bad ones i’ve had were 90% rubbery unseasoned masa with a thin stripe of meat down the center (cheap). I’ve been practicing for ages and i’m only up to “not bad” on a scale of 1 to 10 :)
Mexican food at a lot of chain places is made as cheap as possible, and while cheap tacos are still fucking delicious, it doesn’t translate well into every dish.
Mexican here, tamal (without e) is a class of foods, think of it like cake or pie, maybe not quite as varied, but definitely not a single thing, there are good tamales and bad tamales.
Am I reading it right that a tamal is basically a burrito steamed in a corn husk?
Corn isn’t as pervasive in the Europes and Asia, but I’m sometimes making something approaching a burrito, in a wheat-based wrapping — sort of a Mexiconized shawarma. Heard of tamales a bunch of times, and could get a corn tortilla for it, but not sure what steaming adds outside of making the whole thing softer.
A tamal is made of dough so the steaming is done so the dough isn’t raw, I don’t think it’s comparable with a burrito which is some sort of taco made of fluor tortilla
There are some tamales that aren’t made of dough though and still called tamales, it’s usually meats where I live but I’m sure it’s different in other areas
You have to get a good connect. You’ll find them where you least expect. I used to buy tamales from the place that refilled my propane tanks.
Somewhere in your city there exists a retired Mexican man driving an SUV with an Igloo cooler in the back full of 300 tamales his wife made this morning. There’s at least one in every big city. These are the tamales you want. You’ll find them at some random street corner near the Home Depot or near a mechanic’s shop and they are some of the best food you’ll ever eat.
100% this. Store-bought or restaurant tamales almost never taste as good as home made.
Honestly I kind of like the cheap individually wrapped ones from the frozen aisle lol
Nothing comes close to a trunk/cart tamale, of course.
You literally just described my hookup. He goes to the bars here in Houston. He also has homemade sauces his wife made in small containers that go with each half dozen sold or to buy a jar by itself. He comes out less often in the last year (gee, I fucking wonder why) but I got in good with him and have his number so he’ll meet me anytime between noon and midnight most days.
Anyone who wants a real tamale experience, listen to this person’s advice. And if you still don’t like them, well you gave them a fair shot. And that’s ok too.
We must protect our trunk tamale men and women at all costs. Them, and the elote street corn sellers.
The best tamales I’ve ever had have always been from random people who approach me in a Home Depot parking lot.
this works for everything
the best X i’v ever had has always been from random people who approach me in a parking lot
depends on the tamale, what you describe sounds like canned or ‘fast’ food tamales.
If you ever see an old Mexican on the side of the road in California selling Tamales that’s how you get them.
There is a guy who shows up with a cooler full of piping hot tamales about once a week down the street. He puts up a little folding table, a crappy little chair and it’s cash only. $1 for the best fucking tamale ever made by man. It’s hard to make sure to get there before he sells out. It’s usually within an hour.
Do you mean the tamale or the corn husk?
Yes
But you need fiber!
swallowing the cotton is the worse part of getting new medication
I had no idea what you meant by this, and after some searching it seems that cotton balls used to be added to pill bottles to reduce breakage. Is that still a thing?
that’s how you find out i’m old and unmedicated
Eating peanuts is the worst part of getting a new package
The high you get from sucking the bubble wrap air is not worth the effort.
When they started shipping things with the corn starch packing peanuts we got some cheese powder and tried to toast them at work. They never came out quite right.
You can lick the ends of them and build things!
The husk is the best part. It’s where all the fiber is.
I give this lady so much respect. 1 for being honest enough to go back and change the review, and 2 tenacious enough to power through and eat through the husk.
/c/characterarcs
Makes me wish Ken M was a Lemmy.
Bless her for trying to course correct.
Makes 100% sense too. The corn husk is the worst part of the tamal.
When you’re a child and handed food by an adult and they say, “hey try this” and do not inform you that the wrapper that looks like food is not actually edible or supposed to be eaten, this is what happens.
Nobody even told me I was supposed to remove the corn husk after I said it was gross! I didn’t find out until years later when someone gave me an unhusked tamale and I didn’t know what it was!
Don’t worry, Rebecca, I did this the first time I tried tamales, too.
I got tamales right, but my first edemame was eaten in the shell. Still good tho
There’s dozens of us!
I’d have done it if I hadn’t asked how to do it right.
