Bless her for trying to course correct.
Makes 100% sense too. The corn husk is the worst part of the tamal.
swallowing the cotton is the worse part of getting new medication
Eating peanuts is the worst part of getting a new package
The high you get from sucking the bubble wrap air is not worth the effort.
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!
I had no idea what you meant by this, and after some searching it seems that cotton balls used to be added to pill bottles to reduce breakage. Is that still a thing?
that’s how you find out i’m old and unmedicated
Well, pill bottles aren’t really a common thing where I live, so I might just have wrong information too!
What do you guys to with the white rubbery thing after drinking your mozzarella?
It’s great for throwing at people
I gagged
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?
Yes
Same thing
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
:(
This is a nightmare
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.
I got tamales right, but my first edemame was eaten in the shell. Still good tho
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.
That’s not at all comparable.
Eating Kiwi with skin is awesome.is it really?
Perfect snack for hiking.
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.
Well that solidly changes the context. :)
It’s always been a dream of mine to down an aircraft with nothing but the horrors of my body, but everyone this far has managed to keep me away from dairy before we travel by plane. Spoilsports.
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 :(
Just figured out using a tortilla press for spreading the masa… absolute game changer.
That doesn’t press too much air out and make them dense? I’ve got some experimenting to go do
Doesn’t press out any more air than a spoon does, just makes it very even. Properly prepared masa will fluff up as it steams. Happy experimenting!
I sympathize with you mushroommunk, nearest tamale cart is over a thousand miles away so I learned to make them myself.
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
Deep dish I feel is more Detroit style with the thick bread vs Chicago style where it’s thick cheese and meat with chunky red marinara on top
chicago style where it’s thick cheese and meat with chunky red marinara on top
this is what I feel is different, the other one, once again, can be obtained anywhere they are trying to sell more dough.
your mistake was eating at diordanos
I heard they are no longer the greatness they once were which is disappointing. They used to be godlike
became a multistore chain, deathknell to food quality always
2 maybe 3 restaurants can still work, but beyond that the economies of scale demand a certain level of delegation/sacrifices on quality control that guarantee food quality drops
I don’t like flat crispy pies as much as fluffy doughy ones. I had a slice at some place up there that was still using coal. It was better than most pizza I’ve had, but I didn’t cry for the slice when it was gone. Problem I had in NYC was, save for a street cart, you couldn’t get into the really good eats places because there were miserably packed full with people waiting around the damn corner.
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)
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.
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.
Someone who listened to others with knowledge and changed their view. That’s fake AI review.
that is the most funniest thing ive ever seen :)
First time I ever had a steam bun I ate the paper on bottom thinking it was something like the rice paper candies 😅
How bad was it?
It wasn’t bad tbh which is why I ended up eating the entire paper before realizing it seemed a bit odd. One embarrassing question to the waiter set me on track for the next one
I was today years old when I learned you’re not supposed to eat the corn leaf
