I grew up in Chicago, in a Polish, German, and Italian neighborhood. Only when I went to college was I invited to a classmate's home for an extended family dinner, at which the most fabulous tamales were served (hi, Blanca!). She and her mother, aunties, grandmother, and extended female relation had spent days preparing for the get-together. I was honored to be invited, but mortified when I didn't realize that the tamales had been wrapped in corn husks, intended to be discarded. Once I was set straight, the true enjoyment could begin.
Fortunately, we now live in southern California, where tamales are far more commonplace. Some are even as good as the ones I had years ago.
By the way, it's even possible to find more-or-less authentic Chicago hot dogs around here, with fluorescent green relish, celery salt, and brown mustard :-)
Born in Chicago live in Ohio, can't get any kind of tamales in Cleveland I mail order tamales out of Chicago. It was something I was brought up on they had them at every street corner. Can't even get a decent f****** hot dog in Cleveland
Yeah they are mass produced, but you find the homemade just about anywhere here. You purposely farked the ingredients list. Walmart even sell them and the have this as the list.
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I grew up in Chicago, in a Polish, German, and Italian neighborhood. Only when I went to college was I invited to a classmate's home for an extended family dinner, at which the most fabulous tamales were served (hi, Blanca!). She and her mother, aunties, grandmother, and extended female relation had spent days preparing for the get-together. I was honored to be invited, but mortified when I didn't realize that the tamales had been wrapped in corn husks, intended to be discarded. Once I was set straight, the true enjoyment could begin.
Fortunately, we now live in southern California, where tamales are far more commonplace. Some are even as good as the ones I had years ago.
By the way, it's even possible to find more-or-less authentic Chicago hot dogs around here, with fluorescent green relish, celery salt, and brown mustard :-)
Born in Chicago live in Ohio, can't get any kind of tamales in Cleveland I mail order tamales out of Chicago. It was something I was brought up on they had them at every street corner. Can't even get a decent f****** hot dog in Cleveland
So, I can only make tamales if I'm Mexican?
Yeah they are mass produced, but you find the homemade just about anywhere here. You purposely farked the ingredients list. Walmart even sell them and the have this as the list.
Water, Cornmeal, Beef, Beef Fat, Salt, Spices, Paprika, Natural Flavorings
I suppose I should be glad that I have never encountered these abominations.