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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
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 know. I think there are chains that actually maintain a pretty good job. KFC is actually very well regarded in China. I think Chick-fil-A is well regarded in the US for food quality and a small chain just around 8 or 9 is actually completely handable by a regional manager type.
I would just say it sounds more like their particular execution of the model did not work out.
most US chains are considered good outside the US, normally because local food quality regulations are much stricter. chikfila just has good PR, they get their chicken from tyson same as everyone else
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.
This wasn't Famous Sal's, this was Original Sal's
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sal's+Pizzeria/@40.692529,-73.8587641,3a,75y,354.28h,80.66t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sIoBQHzeooVxfbxX6slzeMQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D9.342144000861097%26panoid%3DIoBQHzeooVxfbxX6slzeMQ%26yaw%3D354.2756084226607!7i16384!8i8192!4m6!3m5!1s0x89c25de4062b7e8f:0xd0b5cc5cde7de562!8m2!3d40.6926684!4d-73.8587716!16s%2Fg%2F1tdy9_4x?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDEyOC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
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)