Bless her for trying to course correct.
I Didn’t Have Eggs
People making changes to recipes and then complaining it didn’t turn out.
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.
What do you guys to with the white rubbery thing after drinking your mozzarella?
It's great for throwing at people
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
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.
The best tamales I've ever had have always been from random people who approach me in a Home Depot parking lot.
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.
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.
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
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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!

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).
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
Don't worry, Rebecca, I did this the first time I tried tamales, too.
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.
Makes me wish Ken M was a Lemmy.
Seems like something you would try and immediately realize your mistake then change your approach.
This reads like a person who eats the bones in their KFC.
The husk is the best part. It's where all the fiber is.
First time I ever had a steam bun I ate the paper on bottom thinking it was something like the rice paper candies 😅