The Terran carbon-based unit designating itself as "Charles Gifford"
shared its ideas in alt.food.mexican-cooking
on Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:10:12 GMT:


"Wayne Lundberg" wrote in message
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"fishman99" wrote in message
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any good, I mean good recipes for green chili and cheese
tamales. --snip---

If you are serving people who know even a little bit about the
Mexican
food
culture, you will do well to forget the cheese tamales and focus on
one third of your cooking to be pork with green chile, one third
chicken with red chile sauce and one third sweet tamales.

Wayne

Well Wayne, not being Mexican I guess I'm covered. I love cheese and
green chile tamales. I don't make them but there is a good place to
purchase them not too far from me. Haven't had any for a while. I'd
better make a visit and get some. Odd though that a Mexican grocery
and butcher would make and sell such a non-Mexican item. Hmmm.

It isn't so much that it is non-mexican. It's just that cheese is
not a particularly common item in tamales. However, since Americans
love cheese, it makes sense that someone doing business in America would
add cheese to different items to appeal to a wider audience. You can
see this in many dishes such as enchiladas, which in the US are almost
always served with cheese, and in Mexico, very rarely, if ever.

--Douglas