At this point in my life, after all my education, travels, and life experience, I have massive difficulties admitting that....

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...I don't know how to eat tamales.

Seriously, do you eat them with, like, the husk on, or do you take it off first?

― kingfish, Friday, 15 April 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

Husk off.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 15 April 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Ssssh, Alex!! It's way more funny to watch someone try to eat them with the husk on.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 15 April 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

i knew it!

― kingfish, Friday, 15 April 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Wait, did I misunderstand that? Kingfish, you have a husk?

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 15 April 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

What are tamales?

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 15 April 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

Short, erudite creatures that live in sieves.

― A / F#m / Bm / D (Lynskey), Friday, 15 April 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

Tamales are the greatest things the occidentals have given to the world. Stupid mayan calendar stops at 2012!

― andy --, Friday, 15 April 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

Raise a glass to the Tamale Lady! She brings joy.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 15 April 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/presidents/gerald-ford/gerald_ford_tamale_shrunk.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 15 April 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

http://www.giantvalue.net/ph.GVTamale.gif

― andy --, Friday, 15 April 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

husk,...er due?

― kingfish, Friday, 15 April 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

man. . .I wish I could make tamales like my grandmother. I have trouble spreading the masa on the husk. very difficult!

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

I've never eaten these "tamales".

― Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

You should.

― luna (luna.c), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

What luna said.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

I would advise against just rushing out and eating the first tamale you find. Like anal sex, if you go about it wrong you won't want to give it a go again.

Find a trusted source of high-quality, authentic Mexican food before you dare consume a tamale.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

At long last I have an answer to the question "How is a tamale like anal sex?"

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

If I don't have a fork/spoon I eat it with the husk on, like one would eat a banana, burrito, or elephant phallus.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

At this point in his life, after all the education, travels, and life experience, The Ghost of Dan Perry has massive ease admitting that....

(grosstamalepost)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:36 (twenty years ago)

gygax, are you going to Kinokuniya for your elephant phalluses? All the American ones I see are ~~circumcised~~ de-husked.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)

"dü-hüskered"

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

I ate a tamale today. yum. I chop em up with a fork and cover em in hot sauce. Though if I am impatient and walking around I might just pick it up and gnaw on it, peeling back the husk as I go.

― Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

what are they?

i know ppl from texas like them

wher can I find good ones in the state of Northern California?

― Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/06/28/MN161258.DTL&type=news

They are an ancient food from Mexico.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

Argh. I realize that it's my own damn fault for having a faulty brain but now I have a mental image of Bob Mould shoving tamales up his ass.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

Dan, you're a sick man. That's why I like you.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

I'll find and wed this "tamale lady"

I know that song by Robert Johnson, about Tamales.

― Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

sorry dan.

They are tradtional food from places throughout central America. I think in el Salvador they use banana leaves. As a mexican dish it consists of masa (made from corn, lime and lard) spread onto a dried corn husk. Then some meat mixture (usually pork although there are many variations) is layed inside. the husk is rolled up, the tamal is placed standing up in a large pan and the whole lot is steamed.

It's tradition to make them on xmas eve and whole families become involved, assembly line. B/c they take so long to make dozens and dozens are made at once so tamale feasting lasts a good lone while. yum. I usually like mine just with salt. sometimes with salsa or eggs.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

see? TEXAS!

― Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

A BIG "FELICIDADES" TO MISS MISERY FOR USING THE CORRECT SINGULAR FORM OF TAMALES: "TAMAL".

Where is that thread of andy's about ordering Mexican food in Spanish!??!?!?!

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

I have a mental image of Bob Mould shoving tamales up his ass.

this would certainly explain the vibe on like half the songs on side 2 of _Zen Arcade_...

― kingfish, Friday, 15 April 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

Summer's corn transformed
Absorbing beer into fun
Is soul food for punks

ouch.

― Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 15 April 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

so.. wait.. im having troubles digesting this.

what good is the husk for if you don't eat it?? what purpose does it serve??

― jill schoelen is the queen of my dreams! (Homosexual II), Friday, 15 April 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

Where is that thread of andy's about ordering Mexican food in Spanish!??!?!?!

Isn't this thread about Alex?

― Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Friday, 15 April 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

It's about A(na)l(S)ex.

― Plus-Tech Whiz Kid (Disco) (Barima), Friday, 15 April 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

The husk holds everything in and helps cook it. The masa starts out kind of thick and stiff. But after the steam-cooking it turns very moist and crumbly. With no husk the whole concoction would fall apart! Also, like the taco, historically the tamal was a great traveling food. Had it's own container so was easy to pack for when you're away from home.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 15 April 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

it is the Mexican version of Lembas Bread!

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 15 April 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

I discovered the wonders of christmas tamales when I moved to Austin. And if you're ever in town, Curra's are the best (one gueros opinion).

― theophilus jones (theophilus), Friday, 15 April 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

green corn tamales are my favorite!

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 15 April 2005 21:05 (twenty years ago)

See, because of how ingrained the tradition of Christmas tamales is in my family, I didn't even know that OTHER families ate turkey dinners for Christmas until I was around 20 or so. I kid you not; I thought turkey was strictly a Thanksgiving thing! But I've still only had a Christmas turkey dinner once in my life. I've had tamales many, many more times, including the assembly line family-made ones that Sam talked about earlier. And it is a hugely labor-intensive thing, too, though with enough people a family can churn out dozens and dozens of tamales before the night is through. (Very messy, too; when I was a little little girl and some members of my family would do this tamale assembling thing, I was one of the masa spreaders and my arms would be covered with masa by the end of the day.)

HA HA HA, SOMEONE DRAGGED OUT THE GERALD FORD PIC! THAT HAPPENED RIGHT HERE IN TOWN! Mom and Dad BOTH told me about that.

― The Spirit of Sam Endicott (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 16 April 2005 03:01 (twenty years ago)

Errr...

... my arms would be covered with masa by the end of the ~~day~~night.

― The Spirit of Sam Endicott (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 16 April 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

i still want tamales

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

have you never eaten one still?

I don't remember this thread but that opening line was truly roffle-worthy.

― Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

nah, i found a place just north of my house that stocks all flavors of tamales on sundays, so my tamale lust has been regularly slated.

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

and you are taking the husks off right?

― Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

yes, i think

― kingfishy (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha dude I think you would know!

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

If you're not sure when the eating ended and the flossing started...

― Tuesdays With Morimoto (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

This guy comes to every bar in Chicago every night of the week peddling tamales.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

OH LOOK A VIRGINITY THREAD

― fuck yr face blogger (a_p), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

Are they any good?

xpost

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

I tell people that you have to eat it with the husk on. Then watch the really uncomfortable look on their face as they ponder, "What am I doing wrong?"

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

Most tamales you get in Mexican restaurants are so blah compared to the ones that a caterer friend of mine makes. Sadly, she moved away, and I don't even bother with tamales any more.
*sheds tiny tear.*

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

I need to give a hand at making them myself. my grandma is getting old.

― Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

Are they any good?

"tamalestamalestamales? pollo, puerco o queso?"

oh my god the cheese tamales are amazing.
i tried to get the tamaleguy to show up at a party this weekend but it was too cold to venture out looking for him.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

"And it is a hugely labor-intensive thing, too, though with enough people a family can churn out dozens and dozens of tamales before the night is through."

My GF's mom can make dozens and dozens in an afternoon. A finely-tuned family machine can make hundreds. Not saying it ain't a lot of work...

― the new sincerity (Pye Poudre), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

I've never actually had one from him! One time I really wanted one, but he didn't have any cheese ones left. (For some reason, I think I was at Phyllis's.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

i bought some chicken ones once late night (like after last call) when i was still drinking gin full time. i was sitting at the door at the bottle talking to my friend matt and he looked at me and said "you are going to regret that."

8 hours later he was sooooooooo OTM.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

These are my favoritiest foods ever! BUT why the deceptive header kingfish? That is evil!

Felicidad!

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

puerco, always.

three or four of us can do dozens and dozens in a day. When my mom would do it by herself it'd usually take two or three days. Probably take me a week . .

― Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

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