Bless her for trying to course correct.
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swallowing the cotton is the worse part of getting new medication
Eating peanuts is the worst part of getting a new package
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!
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What do you guys to with the white rubbery thing after drinking your mozzarella?
It's great for throwing at people
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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.
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The best tamales I've ever had have always been from random people who approach me in a Home Depot parking lot.
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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.
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depends on the tamale, what you describe sounds like canned or 'fast' food 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.
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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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But you need fiber!
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.
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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!
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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.
What the fuck did she expect you to do? She literally told you to just take a bite lol
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.
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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 :(
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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.
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Makes me wish Ken M was a Lemmy.
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.
First time I ever had a steam bun I ate the paper on bottom thinking it was something like the rice paper candies 😅
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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.
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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.
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I was today years old when I learned you're not supposed to eat the corn leaf
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