"dsi1" > wrote in message
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> On 7/5/2014 5:18 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>> For lunch today I had quite possibly the worst tamale ever. From the
>> outside, it looked okay. Was in the corn husk and all.
>>
>> But when I opened it? There was perhaps a 2" thick hunk. There was a
>> wad of very solid meat. Not sure what to call the meat. It was beef.
>> But it wasn't steak, ground beef or even shredded beef. Just a very
>> solid chunk of tough, seemingly unseasoned beef. Around it was a thin,
>> partial shell of very solid mass tough masa. They didn't even bother to
>> fully cover the meat. The masa also didn't seem to have much flavor.
>> Maybe it was old? At any rate, I will never order this again. I
>> believe that the menu said there was a special sauce but there was
>> seemingly no sauce.
>>
>> So... What would make the tamale tough like that? This isn't a
>> restaurant where we dine a lot. My first meal there was terrible. But
>> everyone else raved about it. So we tried it again and the food was
>> great! Until now.
>
> My condolences on that tamale. I hope to never meet one of those in a
> plate.

I hope to never meet one again! Thing is, I have been looking forward to
this meal for weeks. Instead of ordering what I usually do, I ordered that
and a whole pinto bean enchilada. Sadly I can make an enchilada at home
that is more memorable than that. It filled me up but that's about it.