How to pronounce “tamale” in English

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The tamale guy got hundreds in an igloo cooler, hot and dense, stuffed with queso and peppers, pork and corn, delicious

The tamale guy is a hero of sorts, unknown to the masses, unmasked and cloaked in dimly-lit dives, weaving through packed houses and some sad scatterings

The tamale guy appears from thin air, the dust, and bustle of Western Ave. The tamale guy feeds the multitude, hipsters

The tamale guy must have a family, some army who helps him wake and resuscitate for this second hustle.

The tamale guy might carry mail by day or punch buttons in a clock in a factory, might live in Pilsen and wander the south branch of the river

The tamale guy lures the hungry, feeds the drunk, for a couple of bucks.

The tamale guy is there.

The hot tamale like this lady, or they like the great white virgin.

I think that tamales are with corn, like the corn leaf that they're wrapped, where pasteles en hoja is with a plantain leaf.

So I chose tamales because I love a good project and getting into it and having fun with it.

Today I made tamales.

People call them tamales, but they're wrapped in bamboo leaves and stuff.

But the tamales was always a good sign that we were doing good.

They might just get tamales, and that's OK.

She actually makes tamales.

Everywhere from the TamaleMan to the Chili Queens to Taco Bell and Tex-Mex food that you were saying, what are your thoughts on authentic, on authenticity and how people

I actually did a kishke tamale stuffed with pastrami, because I like to Jewify everything.

So this is called "The Tamale Guy."

The first food trucks they were tamale carts, they would be these tamale vendors who would get their horse on a wagon, go all across Southern California, set up their shop at

We were so poor that-- tamales, right?

and making over $3,000 tamales on a weekly basis.

And here is a woman selling tamales by the side of the street.

And so I've written an ode to the tamale guy.

And so it's got everything from like seafood boils to tamale making parties to slab pie.

went to Northern Ghana to a town called Tamale, you've been there, right?

She had a show on the Food Network called Two Hot Tamales, which was on a long time ago.

the end of the day and just start selling tamales.

And if we serve -- say, we become a tamale restaurant, and that's all we serve.

And she was only-- I think she was only making about 100 tamales per week when she started with us.

And I can do it through women like this who are selling these humongous tamales is for $1 apiece.

Are you gonna hold it against Kennedy and Bayless and the Two Hot Tamales?

I'm talking, of course, about the tamale guy.

At the time I remember, I didnít know what a tamale was.

There's a tortilla factory in Bushwick-- no, Nick's Tamales in Queens, is in Corona.

So you would eat ice cream, and it tasted like tamales, because the tamales that were in there from Christmas,

That’s been the course of Mexican food in this country for over 125 years starting with tamales, going with what we know now as just chili in a can, it used to be called Chili

Yeah, it's funny how it's kind of like a tamale.

There is, you know, I had not ever really eaten great Mexican food, I didnít know what a tamale was.

I thought it was a plant, maybe a vegetable and he had just gotten back from a tamale festival where he had been judging a competition and he was talking about them and I- it was

You know, like you mentioned, the tamale that was the original food from the history of Mexican cuisine that instead of tortillas and stuff, it could travel.

And I want us to constantly be changing, which is why like, if Noodle Bar turned into a tamale shop, I'd be very happy.

You take away cheese and chicken and beef and things that just didn't exist, but you still have nixtamal and tamales and masa and tortillas

For those that don't know what Pasteles en hoja are, it's similar to tamales from Mexico.

So I have cooking-- and my kitchen smells amazing because I just made some Mexican tamales with barbacoa beef.

And as much as I love putting my own spin on things, and that's really my thing, the first time I made tamales,

We might not have gotten the Air Jordans or the beautiful things that we could have dreamed of, but we had tamales.

I mean, just to kind of give you an indication of where she was at at the time, she would buy supplies to make her tamales on a weekly basis.

whatever that all different kinds of things. But they also have this one thing that's wonderful, which is a Chinese tamalei. Now you're going