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On Oct 7, 8:23 am, "Mr. Sardonicus" >
wrote:
> On Oct 7, 2:05?am, brigmave > wrote:
>
> > Thank you for the instructions. I found this to be very good and
> > filling.

>
> All Mexican peasant food is very filling, it's usually greasy with
> pork lard and the beans give you gas and the corn meal fills you up
> and the chile sauce satisfies your mouth and then it burns again
> coming out the other end.
>
> The problem that Americans and people from European countries run into
> is when they start to mystify how Mexican peasants cook and they begin
> to believe that they are experiencing some kind of "refined" culture
> and dealing with "refined" and "gentle" people when they eat a taco or
> a tamale or an enchilada, or whatever.
>
> Actually, authentic Mexican food is just the peasant food of very poor
> Indians using ingredients that don't require refrigeration. Mexican
> peasants eat a lot of corn and corn meal based food and very few fresh
> vegetables, If there is meat in an authentic Mexican recipe, the
> animal was very recently slughtered, there was no time to age the
> meat, so it was probably boiled until tender and shredded.
>
> > I also like tamales but ther are too intricate to make.

>
> Tamales don't have to be all that labor intensive to make. You don't
> have to buy dried corn husks and soak them in water and them fill them
> with masa and spicy meat, you can just make a tamale casserole with a
> thin lining of instant masa and a masa top.
>
> I make my authentic-tasting tamale casserole in the microwave in a
> covered bowl. Since the meat and sauce are already cooked, all I'm
> doing is using the microwave for 15 minutes to boil the liquid and
> then the masa is steamed while it sits cooling for the next 45
> minutes.
>
> Nacos living in Mexico do know how to do this. They put whatever they
> want to cook into a clay pot and put the pot into the hot coals of a
> wood fire after it dies down.
>
> Mexicans always remember when they were poor Indians living in a shack
> on welfare, so they keep on making tamales in the traditional manner
> by filling wet corn husks with masa and whatever else they could
> scrounge up.
>
> These days, you know that Mexican women are recent nacos when they try
> to sell you tamales in front of the supermarket.
>
> More established nacos whose grandparents were wetbacks 50 years ago
> just make tamales at Christmas and nacos give other nacos tamales the
> same way Americans used to give each other fruitcake.
>
> It has been said that naco mothers make tamales on Christmas Eve so
> their little nacos will have something to unwrap the next morning, but
> that's a lie, Mexicans don't believe in Santa Claus.


It is obvious you are an overt racist! The Mexicans or Indians I have
met have all been decent hard working people.
Another example of the ugly American shows in your post sir!
Brig