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Default What makes a tamale solid?


"Travis McGee" > wrote in message
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> On 7/6/2014 3:36 AM, Sqwertz wrote:
>> On Sat, 5 Jul 2014 20:18:26 -0700, 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.

>>
>> I have no doubt you're exaggerating for the purposes of trolling.
>>
>> Suck it up, everybody else! Try and correct Julie's terrible dinner!
>> <yawn>
>>
>> -sw
>>

>
> I just don't understand why she is called a troll. I have been following
> this group since the 90s, and she does not fit the pattern of trolling.
> Yet, the dimwit Penmartin continues to post here, and apparently he has
> the respect of most of the audience.


I'm not a troll. They will call me a variety of unflattering things. What
they call me seems ever changing. Why? Dunno.