[Theflyingsmurf]

I got 2 for 3 bucks from a roach coach last time I delivered in Dallas.

They were tasty and I'm still alive.

 

[Magilla]

I see a mother/daughter team selling them near my house and have been kinda craving some but don’t want to spend an arm or a leg, last time I priced burritos they were like $16-$18, I’d love to score some tamales for $2 like they used to be but I’m doubting it and am actually scared to stop and ask

That seems really high.

Although, I don't have someone who sells tamales locally, I have a Hispanic coworker who sells breakfast burritos (sausage, egg, cheese, onions, peppers) for $4, and lunch burritos (chicken/beef, rice, onions, peppers, cheese, sauce) for $5.

I buy from her frequently, to support her, and because it's very good.

I used to have a neighbor who made the best lumpia I've ever had. She even made an orange sauce that was out of this world.

Maybe NYMIN, or e.honey.m can weigh in.

 

[4X4]

We get some really good home made tamales for $16 by the dozen and add in a tip. Normally split them up between the corn and banana leaf wrappers with pork and beef, sometimes cheese filled. I really love these as they have some decent spice and strip of carrot and potato inside with the meat. A tamale is one of my favorite foods when I want a treat. Hot or cold no matter to me. I love those things.

Sometimes the local Catholic churches will sell them as a fund raiser especially around Christmas if you don't know anyone locally. All the congregation women get together for a huge tamale fest and then sell them in the community.

 

[livebywater]

15 for a dozen.

 

[Thurs one]

Round here you can usually score some parking lot tamales for anywhere from 12-15$ dz. Always topnotch and authentic, usually mother/ daughter team working the lot. On occasion you will get the male sporting a gold chain aggressively selling them business to business and window to window in the parking lot, these jokers start out at 20$ a dz but will usually take 15$ to not lose the sale.
S.E. Texas

Usually if they have red and green salsa tied off in sandwich baggies chances are they will be good.

 

[1911Glock]

Sometimes, you just need to treat yourself. Go get them. You obviously like tamales. Yes, they are probably a few bucks more, than they were last year, but so is the cost everything else. Go get them. You deserve them. Pay for them and don’t look back. Just put a little Tabasco on them and chow down. I’m partial to the green Tabasco. It’s not as warm as the red.

 

[irv818]

I see a mother/daughter team selling them near my house and have been kinda craving some but don’t want to spend an arm or a leg, last time I priced burritos they were like $16-$18, I’d love to score some tamales for $2 like they used to be but I’m doubting it and am actually scared to stop and ask

Back in Jan, @97guns wrote:

my $280k total investment brings in $8k a month good for a 34% gross return and that’s just on the rents

Now he's worried that he can't afford a tamale.

My, how fickle the finger of financial fortune can be.

 

[NY Min]

Now he's worried that he can't afford a tamale.

My, how fickle fortune can be.

Some people can't stop worrying about saving for their old age even when they're already 90. I had an aunt like that, and my older brother is tending the same way. Pinching pennies is a mental habit they just can't shake that ends up only making some heir happy at the windfall (or the government if they haven't got any heirs).

 

[tAKticool]

What I want to know is, what's the going rate on a homemade tamale.

 

[irv818]

Now we have two posters who are too scared to ask a nice Mexican abuela how much she wants for a tamale.

Some survivalists we got here.

 

[cannonfoddertfc]

... to ask a nice Mexican abuela how much she wants for a tamale.

It sounds so dirty when you say it like that...

 

[ReAKtion]

In Peru everything is sold in the street. You can find a guy running in traffic selling toilet paper. Want an egg? A little old lady standing outside your house waits til you need one. We will be at that point by July here in the US.

 

[Zalam]

A cooking skill I'm glad I learned.
Link to a post from 15 yrs ago'

Homemade Tamales

I'm a Czech, but every winter I make a batch of homemade tamales. I made 5 dozen,.....4 dozen are in the freezer for later and a dozen are in the fridge. I used a couple of pork roast, but I'll be making some venison ones with some of that canned venison I did earlier. It's time consuming, but...

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And a pic of some I made and vac pac this February,.......this post made me craving for some.
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Making tamales takes a lot of work.