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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How bad was it?
What do you guys to with the white rubbery thing after drinking your mozzarella?
Bless her for trying to course correct.
swallowing the cotton is the worse part of getting new medication
Eating peanuts is the worst part of getting a new package
Makes me wish Ken M was a Lemmy.
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
Do you mean the tamale or the corn husk?
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
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.
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.
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.
We must protect our trunk tamale men and women at all costs. Them, and the elote street corn sellers.
100% this. Store-bought or restaurant tamales almost never taste as good as home made.
The best tamales I've ever had are always from random people who approach me in a Home Depot parking lot.
depends on the tamale, what you describe sounds like canned or 'fast' food tamales.
But you need fiber!
Anyone remember the tamale lady at Zeitgeist? iykyk
/c/characterarcs
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.
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.
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 :(
Me too! I had a Peruan/Bolivian one ( Humita? ), but I'm not sure if they are the same as the mexican tamale.
I'm still mad at my NYC buddy for saying "YoU GoTtA EaT A NeW YoRk sLiCe" when I visited new york, which, while on a diet , meant I either had tamales or a new york pizza slice when I was in queens.
It tasted like any other "regular" pizza I had anywhere else in the fucking world. If you want to be an absolute asshole and say "BuT ThAt pLaCe mUsT HaVe bEeN AsS, yOu gOtTa eAt iT At pAnUcCi's pIzZa", I LITERALLY had it at Sal's Pizzeria , and I swear to fuck, I do not think I could have chosen a more "local, 100% NYC Italian" pizza than that unless it was in fucking brooklyn or harlem.
I've said this story before actually, but seriously, New Yorkers, chill the fuck out with your pizza. You won and conquered the fucking world, relax.
Fucking opportunity cost.
There's also a New York style square slice like the kind you get from Prince Street Pizza called The spicy spring and that was actually a delight. In general, though, New York Pizza is mostly unremarkable, but Chicago Pizza is every bit as good as you probably have heard and is easily my favorite. Not to mention Chicago is so into pizza, there's just really great pizza all over the place of every type in size
yeah, at least deep dish is something unique
The three biggest food letdowns of my life were NY pizza, Shake Shack, and In-N-Out.
They were all....fine. I enjoyed my meals. Nothing I couldn't get back home
I wasn't there for many days, and I had a limited number of meals and money, and you're right, nothing stuck out for me either.
I think the thing to do when you visit a country is to try the things they specialise in. The yanks specialise in "food products" and fast food, so I ate stuff from supermarkets and bodegas, with an exception to the pizza and a few other things with my friend.
Pretzels were interesting, I got a bunch of stuff from Family Dollar, 7-11 and Slurpees were by far the greatest fucking thing I had the entire time I was there, like FUCK MAN, during summer that shit goes down so good, and you can mix and match flavours. I had some japanese food near the NY Library with my friend, the aforementioned pizza and that was about it.
I wanted to try taco bell but somehow fucked it up and didn't find one at the right time. Not sure how I managed to do that, but I did. Also Tamales, as mentioned.
I wasn't expecting much, so I didn't particularly care , especially because of diets and financial constraints.
What ACTUALLY disappointed me was that the tech death power trio I specifically traveled across the Atlantic for had their guitarist sick during the show I went to, so it was a duo.
Man you really missed out, there's so much good food in the US and a ton of options in New York specifically. American cuisine is incredibly diverse (though not more than Europe as a whole) so it's a bummer you think we're all about fast food haha
Wasn't Sal's Pizzeria on an episode of Kitchen Nightmares?
It's like a disc of hot garbage. You should have went to Sal's Pizza Cafe.
Wasn’t Sal’s Pizzeria on an episode of Kitchen Nightmares?
This wasn't Famous Sal's, this was Original Sal's
https://youtu.be/ST1FrcRbC-k?t=201
EDIT : And no, I wasn't at corner of 1st and 1st, the nexus of the universe. I was coming back from my pilgrimage to Menegroth thousand caves, which is (was) on Jamaica Avenue (more or less)
Yikes! I'd be so mortified!
Also... dang who'd even attempt to eat the husk? Imagine the horrified looks she got lol