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Hot Tamale Trail
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Posted on 12/29/2013 4:17:15 PM PST by wizkid
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To some people, New Years in the deep South means black eyed peas but, to me, it means Hot Tamales.
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posted on
12/29/2013 4:17:15 PM PST
by
wizkid
To: wizkid
Tamales are traditional on Christmas
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posted on
12/29/2013 4:18:25 PM PST
by
Nifster
To: wizkid
To some people, New Years in the deep South means black eyed peas but, to me, it means Hot Tamales. Living in Texas, to me, it means both!!!
Why take chances...???
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posted on
12/29/2013 4:20:08 PM PST
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: Ignorance On Parade)
To: wizkid
We talking tamales or the candy Hot Tamales?
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posted on
12/29/2013 4:21:15 PM PST
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(This is not just stupid, we're talking Democrat stupid here.)
To: Nifster
What ever happened to the Whole Enchilada?
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posted on
12/29/2013 4:22:32 PM PST
by
chicagolady
(Mexican Elite say: EXPORT Poverty and Let the the Stupid AmericanTaxpayer foot the bill !)
To: wizkid
I LOVE tamales. LOVE them.
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posted on
12/29/2013 4:23:47 PM PST
by
Hardastarboard
(The question of our age is whether a majority of Americans can and will vote us all into slavery.)
To: wizkid
And why have they stayed? Because they taste good!
Tamales at Advent are a So Cal tradition too.
To: wizkid
I live in San Diego where Tamales are readily available at many of the cocinas. I love tamales!
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posted on
12/29/2013 4:30:43 PM PST
by
South40
(Liberalism is a Disease)
To: wizkid
When I would visit friends in Jackson,Ms it was a given we would have Hot tamales for dinner. We would drive to this hole in the wall place and place our order through the window and drive home with dozens of tamales. Good eats!
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posted on
12/29/2013 4:32:17 PM PST
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: wizkid
Alton Brown did a show about the Tamale Trail in his second "Feasting on Asphalt" road-show miniseries ("The River Run"), in which he rode a motorcycle north, following the Mississippi north from the Gulf.
Interesting show, well worth a look.
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posted on
12/29/2013 4:34:05 PM PST
by
Charles Martel
(Endeavor to persevere...)
To: wizkid
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posted on
12/29/2013 4:35:30 PM PST
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: wizkid
Yep. We had tamales on Christmas day. Delicious!
To: wizkid
I went for years not eating tamales because I did not know that you had to remove the outer wrapping before eating them. I tried eating them with the wrapper and found it an unpleasant experience.
Well since removing the wrapper, I've been finding them quite tasty.
To: wizkid
![]( http://yieatn.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/hot-tamale.jpg )
Polenta tamale with a pasilla chili beef mole, some ancho chili barbeque sauce and salsa verde
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posted on
12/29/2013 4:43:49 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: paint_your_wagon
As a kid, I liked to eat the canned Hormel ones. I think I would prefer the meat be lean pork though, the masa plain without stuff rolled into it. Not too spicy. Hard to find a good recipe on the internet.
It was the steaming that put me off but now I know how to rig something up or use a crockpot.
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posted on
12/29/2013 4:43:52 PM PST
by
Aliska
To: wizkid
To some people, New Years in the deep South means black eyed peas Don't forget the hog jowl.
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posted on
12/29/2013 4:45:45 PM PST
by
Some Fat Guy in L.A.
(Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
To: Nifster
Yes, in a lot of areas they are popular. When I moved to Southern California, my Mexican friends would have me over for tamales during Christmas/New Years.
I feel sorry for people without this tradition. Here is an Esquire writer who is flummoxed by the whole thing:
Esquire - The Red-Hot, Pork-Stuffed, Corn-Wrapped, Blues-Flavored Enigma
At first I thought they messed up my order because I was like, "What the **** is that?" as I stared into a Styrofoam container at Bud's Snack Bar in Tunica, Mississippi. Inside there was a lump wrapped in some kind of a wax paper, tied together with what looked to me like a tampon string.
I was really specific when I told the girl working behind the counter I wanted a tamale. She said okay, then asked how many. I told her one, she said they don't serve only one, and before I could even ask her why not, she said they sell them by the dozen, half dozen, or I can buy just three for three dollars, since they come in a bundle. I told her I'd take three.
I then asked the girl if in fact that thing inside the white Styrofoam container was a tamale. I'm no connoisseur, but to me it looked absolutely nothing like any tamale I'd ever seen before.
Apparently, this poor man has never bought tamales by the dozen and experienced the torture of the smell permeating both his car and clothes during the ride home as the molten red grease seepes through the brown paper sack. Of course, one or two always went missing during my trips.
Here is one of my favorite places in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Solly's:
Eat your heart out Taco Bell:
Here is their mucho delish-iosso tamale burrito (a bad boy loaded with tamale stuffing):
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posted on
12/29/2013 4:50:58 PM PST
by
wizkid
To: JoeProBono
No frou frou mericones tamales for me, gracias.
Tamales puerco con salsa rojo muy picante por favor!
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posted on
12/29/2013 4:56:47 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Fight Tapinophobia in all its forms! Do not submit to arduus privilege.)
To: Red_Devil 232
When you say order from a whole in the wall, you ain't kidding.
Sorry for the ridiculously large photo but I cannot get it re-sized for the life of me:
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posted on
12/29/2013 4:58:40 PM PST
by
wizkid
To: wizkid
We bought three dozen from our Hispanic friend for Christmas and New Year’s day. We also got a pint of fresh salsa. Wife is out of state until Jan 2nd. What to do, what to do?? They are SO good.
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posted on
12/29/2013 5:01:27 PM PST
by
Arrowhead1952
(The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
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