Unwrapping Aztec Tamales | The Tamale Wars

What is your favorite tamale filling? Mine is definitely pork.

Listening to historical mexican upperclass drama narrated by a man holding a pikachu mug

When I ate my first tamale I didn't know the corn husk wrapper had to be removed. The little grandma at the food truck stared at me in shocked horror like I had lost my mind.

"Instead of disappointing some people, I've decided to disappoint everyone." Me, already a disappointment to everyone: "A'ight, cheers to that, mate."

"She is often seen as a traitor to her own people and is one of the most villainized people in Latin culture, just after Yolanda Saldívar" bless you magic cooking man 😭 💕

“Instead of just disappointing someone, I decided to disappoint everyone!” Me in High School

Yes, I think preparing a non-Nestle chocolate drink would make an interesting episode. Any new world foods, really.

My Abuela made great chicken tamales I always asked her for the recipe, she always said “not until I am 20”, I’m 23 and now she says “not until your married”

I’m from rural, coal mining Pennsylvania. This was my first experience with tamales: In the Navy, 18 years old, stationed in Orlando for training. Two older guys, both from Texas, both recently married, invited me and my future best friend over for Christmas dinner. Both of their wives were of recent Mexican ancestry. (One of the guys was too.). They made tamales, first time by themselves without their mothers. They were embarrassed because the tamales weren’t pretty. But I remember… they were delicious. And to this day, when I see tamales on a menu, I think “Oh, this place is good.”

Im an archaeologyst from México and I really love your aproach to tamales. We have archaeologycal records in iconography and micro remanentes of the ingredients that survived in the rock or ceramic. And even we have récord of the process and production of this foods. In Dresde Codex theres a lot of iconographic information. OMG this is so exciting.

"They took all his tamales." Those monsters...

My parents were mexican and, as a ~7 year old little pocho (what the paisas call us mex american kids), I tried ordering a “tamale” at our favorite Mexican restaurant {Casa Jimenez in Ontario, California - can’t give it enough props}. I learned two things that day: 1) the singular form is “tamal” not tamale and 2) my parents were happy to laugh at me along with literally every other adult in the building as if my ignorance wasn’t a reflection of their teaching. Tl;dr it’s tamal not tamale. Love the video, this isn’t some pedantry from a random YouTube comment… it’s just all I think of when I hear the word “tamale”.

Tamales here in the Philippines are made with rice flour and coconut milk, topped with a peanut sauce, shredded chicken, and sliced egg. It's wrapped in banana leaves instead of corn husks. As a kid, when I'd see Mexican tamales on TV, I always wondered what they tasted like! To this day I have yet to try them... It's on my bucket list.

My grandmother's tamales are amazing. They are essentially familial currency. We bribe, steal, and horde them. Laughing at family members as they cry, begging for a handout.

"Instead of disappointing someone I decided to just disappoint everyone" lmao

Max yelling "learn to drive you Corn Smut!" is perhaps my favorite moment of the channel 🤣

I love that you're choosing to focus a lot on meso-American cuisine! A breath of fresh air.

"Just like dinner at the miller household. I cannot abide tardiness. *strong sip of cocoa from Pikachu mug*" - Max Miller

I miss the ladies selling Tamales from the trunk of their car. Each would be at a different grocery parking lot on a certain day of the week. My favorite was Tuesdays for Antonia's pork ones. She always brought the fruit ones in blue masa at Christmas, but only for her best customers and I always gave her a live duck or two as a thank you.

My Mother who died would have loved this programme! It is witty and insightful! This is educational tasteful and well done research in one go ! I applaude you !! You are great ! Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱