Bless her for trying to course correct.
Makes 100% sense too. The corn husk is the worst part of the tamal.
swallowing the cotton is the worse part of getting new medication
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!
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
Well, pill bottles aren’t really a common thing where I live, so I might just have wrong information too!
What do you guys to with the white rubbery thing after drinking your mozzarella?
It’s great for throwing at people
I gagged
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
Do you mean the tamale or the corn husk?
Yes
Same thing
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
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.
We must protect our trunk tamale men and women at all costs. Them, and the elote street corn sellers.
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.
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.
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
Lol, I wish I could say the same. Most people just approach me for cigarettes or money.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
:(
This is a nightmare
Tbf, nachos is a newish dish created specifically for americans, so that wouldn’t be my test for the quality of a mexican restaurant
But you need fiber!
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.
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!
Yeah, what one person knows another does not! I was lucky with the tamales. I was told when handed them.
I still tried to eat the wrapper cause the tamales were delicious and I wanted more delicious though…
First time I ever tried a real mango was when a coworker offered me a half she has already scored into squares. She handed it to me and I asked “How do I eat it?” She said, nonplussed “You just eat it.” “I just take a bite?” “Yeah.”
So I take a bite of this piece of fruit she handed me. As I force myself to chew and swallow this tough, bitter garbage fruit, I tell her “I don’t think it’s for me.” I look at her and apparently she had just been staring at me in open mouthed horror, instead of warning me “Don’t eat the skin!”
I have an aunt who eat kiwi fruit like an apple. Just hold it in your hand, and bite. She chews it with and all.
She’s otherwise a normal and kind person.
It’s good this way.
It’s not like a banana or a watermelon or something. The only reason people think it’s weird is the texture, but by the time you’re chewing the bite it’s not evident. I wouldn’t lick a kiwi or run my lips on it unless you’re a total weirdo, but I can recommend eating it whole. It adds just a little tart flavor and a little more crunch to the experience (and also you don’t need a spoon anymore).
That’s not at all comparable.
Eating Kiwi with skin is awesome.is it really?
Perfect snack for hiking.
I mean I haven’t eaten kiwis in a long while, and didn’t eat the skin, but if I had to choose, I’d definitely choose kiwi skin over mango skin.
Kiwi skin just seems like a tad chewy perhaps (good fiber), but mango skin seems like it might make me nauseous even if I could get it down.
I’d describe kiwi skin as a slightly tougher edible fuit skin. I love its taste and texture. Don’t even really notice the fuzziness on the outside because the juices from the inside dominate the mouth feel in the short period before you destroy the surface by chewing, and the hairs are brittle enough that they don’t really get stuck between the teeth or anything (more likely to get a piece of skin sticking along a smooth surface like the side of a tooth or roof of your mouth, but those are easy to free).
It’s like a cross between cucumber skin (toughness) and tomato skin (strength), but with a sour and bitter kiwi flavour when you chew through it. Not sure I’d enjoy them without the sweetness of the kiwi meat going along with it.
What the fuck did she expect you to do? She literally told you to just take a bite lol
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)?
Don’t worry, Rebecca, I did this the first time I tried tamales, too.
There’s dozens of us!
I’d have done it if I hadn’t asked how to do it right.
I got tamales right, but my first edemame was eaten in the shell. Still good tho
that is the most funniest thing ive ever seen :)
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.
Someone who listened to others with knowledge and changed their view. That’s fake AI review.
She’s so good.
Fuck I want a tamale.
When I was boarding a flight in Las Vegas, I noticed the pilot wolfing down a plate of tamales. I told him tamales are my favorite, and he handed me what he hadn’t eaten.
Yes, to the horror of my family, I ate them and they were delicious. Tamales are the IDGAF where they came from treat.
Why would they be horrified? You’re literally trusting them with your life, and if the tamales aren’t safe to eat then you having food poisoning is comparatively minor.
Or was it that you deprived the pilot of vital sustenance and morale boosting food needed to safely fly the plane?
I left out the part about my food allergies, and to be fair an airplane isn’t a great place to risk becoming violently ill, but it was tamales.
Well that solidly changes the context. :)
It’s always been a dream of mine to down an aircraft with nothing but the horrors of my body, but everyone this far has managed to keep me away from dairy before we travel by plane. Spoilsports.
They’re not super hard to make a couple for yourself. Great fun to throw a tamalada too.
I could make a tamale, or I could find the jankiest, rustiest food cart out there in the world, order a tamale for like two bucks, and have my mind absolutely blown.
cries in 20 inches of snow I really wish that was an option for me :(
Just figured out using a tortilla press for spreading the masa… absolute game changer.
That doesn’t press too much air out and make them dense? I’ve got some experimenting to go do
Doesn’t press out any more air than a spoon does, just makes it very even. Properly prepared masa will fluff up as it steams. Happy experimenting!
I sympathize with you mushroommunk, nearest tamale cart is over a thousand miles away so I learned to make them myself.
Me too! I had a Peruan/Bolivian one ( Humita? ), but I’m not sure if they are the same as the mexican tamale.
I’m still mad at my NYC buddy for saying “YoU GoTtA EaT A NeW YoRk sLiCe” when I visited new york, which, while on a diet , meant I either had tamales or a new york pizza slice when I was in queens.
It tasted like any other “regular” pizza I had anywhere else in the fucking world. If you want to be an absolute asshole and say “BuT ThAt pLaCe mUsT HaVe bEeN AsS, yOu gOtTa eAt iT At pAnUcCi’s pIzZa”, I LITERALLY had it at Sal’s Pizzeria , and I swear to fuck, I do not think I could have chosen a more “local, 100% NYC Italian” pizza than that unless it was in fucking brooklyn or harlem.
I’ve said this story before actually, but seriously, New Yorkers, chill the fuck out with your pizza. You won and conquered the fucking world, relax.
Fucking opportunity cost.
The three biggest food letdowns of my life were NY pizza, Shake Shack, and In-N-Out.
They were all…fine. I enjoyed my meals. Nothing I couldn’t get back home
Whataburger was a nice surprise that I enjoy more than in and out. Chicago Pizza lived up to the hype. Classic Midwest steak and shake was way better than shake shack.
I was in Vegas, next to in-n-out for a week.
Day one, burger and fries and a coke. WTF, that was disappointing as hell, I’d rather have eaten McDonalds.
Day two, look up all the hidden menu bullshit, animal style, with animal style fries. HOLY FUCK that’s a different meal.
I tried everything else over the week, but my fav was still animal style.
Their regular burgers are fries are just bland and dry. They need to be loaded with the sauce and the friend onions. They should default to that.
I definitely went for animal style and it was…ok. It was just good sauce on a fast food burger and fast food burgers are never good
For all the negatively, I do get it every time I’m in California (which admittedly hasn’t been for years at this point)
I wasn’t there for many days, and I had a limited number of meals and money, and you’re right, nothing stuck out for me either.
I think the thing to do when you visit a country is to try the things they specialise in. The yanks specialise in “food products” and fast food, so I ate stuff from supermarkets and bodegas, with an exception to the pizza and a few other things with my friend.
Pretzels were interesting, I got a bunch of stuff from Family Dollar, 7-11 and Slurpees were by far the greatest fucking thing I had the entire time I was there, like FUCK MAN, during summer that shit goes down so good, and you can mix and match flavours. I had some japanese food near the NY Library with my friend, the aforementioned pizza and that was about it.
I wanted to try taco bell but somehow fucked it up and didn’t find one at the right time. Not sure how I managed to do that, but I did. Also Tamales, as mentioned.
I wasn’t expecting much, so I didn’t particularly care , especially because of diets and financial constraints.
What ACTUALLY disappointed me was that the tech death power trio I specifically traveled across the Atlantic for had their guitarist sick during the show I went to, so it was a duo.
Man you really missed out, there’s so much good food in the US and a ton of options in New York specifically. American cuisine is incredibly diverse (though not more than Europe as a whole) so it’s a bummer you think we’re all about fast food haha
There’s also a New York style square slice like the kind you get from Prince Street Pizza called The spicy spring and that was actually a delight. In general, though, New York Pizza is mostly unremarkable, but Chicago Pizza is every bit as good as you probably have heard and is easily my favorite. Not to mention Chicago is so into pizza, there’s just really great pizza all over the place of every type in size
yeah, at least deep dish is something unique
Deep dish I feel is more Detroit style with the thick bread vs Chicago style where it’s thick cheese and meat with chunky red marinara on top
chicago style where it’s thick cheese and meat with chunky red marinara on top
this is what I feel is different, the other one, once again, can be obtained anywhere they are trying to sell more dough.
your mistake was eating at diordanos
I heard they are no longer the greatness they once were which is disappointing. They used to be godlike
became a multistore chain, deathknell to food quality always
2 maybe 3 restaurants can still work, but beyond that the economies of scale demand a certain level of delegation/sacrifices on quality control that guarantee food quality drops
I don’t like flat crispy pies as much as fluffy doughy ones. I had a slice at some place up there that was still using coal. It was better than most pizza I’ve had, but I didn’t cry for the slice when it was gone. Problem I had in NYC was, save for a street cart, you couldn’t get into the really good eats places because there were miserably packed full with people waiting around the damn corner.
Wasn’t Sal’s Pizzeria on an episode of Kitchen Nightmares?
It’s like a disc of hot garbage. You should have went to Sal’s Pizza Cafe.
Wasn’t Sal’s Pizzeria on an episode of Kitchen Nightmares?
This wasn’t Famous Sal’s, this was Original Sal’s
https://youtu.be/ST1FrcRbC-k?t=201
EDIT : And no, I wasn’t at corner of 1st and 1st, the nexus of the universe. I was coming back from my pilgrimage to Menegroth thousand caves, which is (was) on Jamaica Avenue (more or less)
Makes me wish Ken M was a Lemmy.
