[okie01]

I really miss having the option to go into any crappy Alsups in West Texas and get tamales if I wanted them... I recall buying 10 homemade tamales at a clip from an old woman outside the grocery store in Hobbs too.

Good tamales are where you find 'em. Best I ever had came from a vendor in the Athens, TX city square. Black gentleman named Early Raymond, who defined his 7-day weeks as "three makin' days and three sellin' days, with Sundays for church".

He drove all over Henderson County looking for what he called "#1 corn husks".

Wonderful tamales...

And, if you can make friends with a Tex-Mex family where the women get together every holiday season and make literally hundreds of tamales, and come into a dozen-or-two for yourself, you can't go wrong.

Mmmmmmmmmmmm....hot tamales....cold Mexican beer.

[txhurl]

And, if you can make friends with a Tex-Mex family where the women get together every holiday season and make literally hundreds of tamales,

---

BTDT, it’s quite the chore. But everybody scootin off with 3 dozen tamales is worth the work.

And I have learned one word: Gerhart’s. ONLY.