November 20, 2020 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
If you hurry real fast, you can see this video of a Border Patro Agent buying tamales through Trump’s border fence.
Tamales are tradition Thanksgiving food across the border and in Texas.
This is the start of brotherhood.
Thanks to Paul for the heads up.
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Brotherhood indeed, Ms. JJ. No place is ever home, until learning the best taco truck in town and who makes the best tamales. Schnellimbiss was my welcome wagon to Germany. After a day of skiing, the currywurst mit pommes frites. Beach vendors in the Philippines, beautiful women in bikinis ready to grill our fresh speared lobster and dress it up something special.
What’s that they say about “don’t drink the water”? Meh. My tract has the immunity of international brotherhood, and an AF mobility shot record thicker than an old NYC phonebook.
1I wish we had that bit of culture here. (Boston) We can finally get a decent el-pastor, but nobody does tamales. I did make my own once, but I understand why everybody wants the kid selling her abuela’s tamales door to door…
I suppose I would be more into making them if I had a horde of grandkids around to do the assembly, but I don’t.
2From the looks of it, Mexico is still not paying for anything that has to do with that wall.
Nice of Trump to include a drive-thru window though.
3Ah, tamales. Heaven in a husk. I’d love to have tamales for Thanksgiving, but I’d get nowhere with the rest of the family.
4Good tamales. Yeah. Can’t see the video (for the same reason I can’t get on FB right now–it reloads every second or less, flick, flick, flick) but I definitely understand the attraction. The holiday season isn’t without a couple dozen homemade tamales (homemade by someone who knows what they’re doing. A friend of mine once tried to teach me to make tamales and finally shrugged “You can’t help it; gringas just can’t do it right. You have to learn a lot younger.”)
Neither my tortillas nor my tamales pass muster. OTOH, a Hispanic guy in our neighborhood in San Antonio said my salsa made with chile pequins was really good.
5We’re going to miss delivering Sharing Tree presents to a local family this year….too bad, because the year we picked a family from Guatemala they insisted we sit down and have some of Mom’s tamales. Heaven in a husk is right!
6Living in New Mexico, you know we have wonderful tamales everyehere.
7And the Central American variety, wrapped in banana leaves are great too.
8What was that old saying? Good fences make good neighbors? Well, it also looks like they are good for the economy! This one looks like it is promoting old fashioned buying and selling, maybe even bartering whichi s even older than B & S.
9Food is the key to peace. Or as Vladimir the Russian defector says in “Moscow On the Hudson” to his Italian girlfriend, “If all Russians could taste mooshu pork they would not fear the Chinese.”
10My menory is failing me but didn’t somebody promise/threaten taco trucks on every corner?
Bing says it was Marco Gutierrez. Whatever happened to him?
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