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The first tamales I ever had were from a jar.
Hormel makes these jarred tamales that are like... extruded tubes wrapped in paper instead of corn husks and packed tightly in a grease-flecked red fluid.
I fucking loved them.
They come in a can now and the last time I had them was a decade or more ago and they weren't the same but they still hit that one special craving for nostalgia food.
Today my husband got tamales from a guy on the corner, some red and some green, and damn if the red ones don't taste just like I remember the Hormel tamales tasting.
Wild.
Especially since the Hormel ones are beef and these are chicken.
The sauce is just... it's exactly how I remember it tasting.
Hormel makes these jarred tamales that are like... extruded tubes wrapped in paper instead of corn husks and packed tightly in a grease-flecked red fluid.
I fucking loved them.
They come in a can now and the last time I had them was a decade or more ago and they weren't the same but they still hit that one special craving for nostalgia food.
Today my husband got tamales from a guy on the corner, some red and some green, and damn if the red ones don't taste just like I remember the Hormel tamales tasting.
Wild.
Especially since the Hormel ones are beef and these are chicken.
The sauce is just... it's exactly how I remember it tasting.