Canned Tamales.NOT making that mistake again!!!!!

[howiema]

I don't even think they sell tamales up here - lol

Pete

 

[Road Rat]

Where do you find fresh made tamales today??

I used to get them all the time when I was a kid in Missouri...a man walked the streets with a hand cart selling "hot tamales"....

I found a woman in SoCal about 10 years ago who delivered to a car place!

Used to have a neighbor in Santa Clara who was always bringing over a big platter of various flavors of home made tamales....hmmm hmmm good.

Dang, now I'm hungry................

 

[timn8er]

Well, I guess we have some lightweights here on this Forum! Can't handle a Hormel gut bomb. I'm not saying they're great or even good, but it's just like Shoulda said: it's just something you have to do every now & then. I probably won't be doing it anytime soon, because here in San Antonio tamales are plentiful & good. But then again...who knows? I was impressed when Ringo said he followed it up with fruit cake, because that is something I won't touch. A severe amount of adult beverages would be involved, which would also insure said fruit cake not hanging around too long.

 

[RudyN]

Those tamales aren't to bad if you are hungry enough. After reading the previous post I think I will have a piece of fruitcake. B-)

 

[soFlaNative]

Ringo will be the one guy who could breach arjay's fumungous barrier in the end of society thread malfunctionaries.

 

[Wyatt p. Tato]

Here on the east coast tamales are rare indeed I must confess I sometimes stoop to canned tamales. Good Mexican food is one of the things I miss about California. Really miss galleo salmi.

 

[wyccad915]

Next time just get the fresh made bean ones then. I've personally never have had bean tamales, and am always surprised to hear the different varieties. I do not like sweet tamales. Anyways, I also have personally never seen canned tamales myself, but I am not surprised.

 

[Smoke]

Family tradition around here the day after thanks giving my wife goes to our daughter's house (no menfolk allowed) and all the women make tamales all day long.

They make a year's supply and freeze them

 

[smokey04]

OH GOD, I got a can on the pantry shelf. Based on this thread, I think I will use them to demonstrate the destructive power of a .44 Mag! I've grown too old to enjoy the " Macho Calibers" but, I would kill for a "Claymore". On second thought, if I ate them, it would probably be like a "Claymore in the "can". Come on Preparation H ! I better let this end right here! Nick

 

[lethe]

LOL, I would NEVER eat a tamale from a can.

Same here..I didn't know they made them in cans.

 

[Iggy]

That was standard fare along with canned chili in cow and sheep camps back when I was kid.
We kept cases of it on hand in the cellar with all of the other canned food stuffs it took to feed all of us for the weeks or months between trips to town for supplies.

I never tasted good Mexican food until I left the ranch for college.
What an enlightening experience real fresh made enchiladas and salsa were.

For that matter, a medium rare steak blew my mind. Before that the only steak I had eaten was home raised crippled critters we butchered ourselves and were fried hot fast on a wood stove.

A juicy tender steak not tough enough to use to half sole a boot was an entirely new concept to me.

Yup, them was the days.

 

[tops]

If a canned tamale is worse tasting than bought fruitcake I don't even want to touch a can. Larry

 

[NCTexan]

Ring this up to "Well it seemed like a good idea at the time."

I've got too many of those that I'd sure like to forget.

 

[carpriver]

I can see you have never tasted C-rations if you had you would know better then to eat canned anything.

 

[Texas629]

OH GOD, I got a can on the pantry shelf. Based on this thread, I think I will use them to demonstrate the destructive power of a .44 Mag! I've grown too old to enjoy the " Macho Calibers" but, I would kill for a "Claymore". On second thought, if I ate them, it would probably be like a "Claymore in the "can". Come on Preparation H ! I better let this end right here! Nick

"Ring of Fire" when the old man reaches for the Preparation H and uses Bengay instead. My wife actually likes canned tamales. I have a salad instead.

 

[BearBio]

I'm swimming up stream on this but I kinda like them! The trick, of course, is that you cannot consider them tamales. It's like the frozen burritos you buy in the 8 packs (or 39 cents each). I thaw those, zap in the microwave and fry crisp. Some Habanero salsa and it's not a bad bachelor dinner when the wife is gone.

The VERY best frozen tamales are XLNT brand. But only found in SoCal.

 

[pawngal]

I happy to say I've never tried canned tamales and never will. Wish I could find some good frozen ones but no luck. Will have to wait for Arizona trip in January and get the real thing.

But I do like fruitcake, my own homemade that is. Good reminder to get the ingredients to make it for the holidays.

 

[the ringo kid]

Totally agree with you. Tried Hormel brand one time and will never make that mistake again.

That was the brand. I still have 1-2 cans of Hormel stew--but not sure if I can stomach eating it. Dinty Moore isnt much better. I saw a stray Shepard dog in my neighborhood this morning, I think ill se if he will eat whatI have left?

 

[the ringo kid]

LOL, I would NEVER eat a tamale from a can...unless I had the blind raving munchies!

That was part of it--I hadnt eaten a thing all day and been on the go since about 7am. It was 9pm when i was at the store--and even dog food looked good.

 

[the ringo kid]

I don't believe what I'm hearing. Not only did you eat canned tamales, you washed it down with fruitcake.
Will be standing by for an input from the lawyers, but I think the Supreme Court has ruled against that combination.
If you need some tamales, look in the freezer case. One good brand is the Albuquerque Brand- Bueno. They are a local family owned company and they make a wide range of excellent products.
Their chili powder is one of the best in the West, so I think it'll hold up back East.
You can probably get them in a lot of places in a number of states.
Green Chile, New Mexico chile, Hatch, New Mexican food, Bueno Foods

Heh heh,I did learn that lesson. Oh and, the fruitcake was all I had on hand for favor change. The tummy suffered that night-thats for sure. Ive not heard of that brand? but will look for it since imat WM now. Usually, I get my tamales from Grandmas Tamales--which is only 1 miles from where I live. If they are aready sold out?I get them from HEBS--which is about 3/4 amile from my place. HEB were sold out except for bean tamales-and I didnt want bean. In hind sight--I SHOULD have bought them anyway.