What is "tamale"

Usage examples of "tamale".

It was an afternoon affair with an informal potluck-style meal afterward in the church hall, when the motley friends rubbed shoulders and piled their rented plates high with dishes ranging from tamale pie and Jell-O salad to spanakopita, vegetarian spring rolls, and hummus.

She fussed at him while they were enjoying a warm sit-down meal of chili con carne and tamales near the livery, where he'd paid some kids to curry and water their ponies while they cooled off and ate some genuine oats as reward for a job half-done.

Then in English he added, "I see a cornshuck in your pocket, so you already stole your tamales for lunch.

The tamales, tapas, and such he'd picked up along the way had naturally been well cooked as well as fumigated with a ferocious amount of chili pepper.

She had grown to like chili and tamales, and especially the crisp tacos fried in deep fat.

Good stuff, too, no fast-food shit—menudo and sweet tamales like you used to be able to get over on Alvarado before the corporate frigs took over.

They all walked the streets of colored lights, these vendors of tortas, tacos, tamales, helotes on a stick and whatever kind of food one wanted for a buck or a penny.

The idea of all that red pepper in a hot tamale was to assure that the meat was safe to eat as well as impossible to identify by taste.

Bobby didn't much care for a Negro's breath on his hot tamales, either, but kept his mouth shut.

He adjusted the mirror as he assured her hot tamales were sort of big hollow noodles made of cornmeal and stuffed with spicy ground meat.

I called plaintively as they left, then returned my attention to hot tamales, cold beer, and the odd body or two.

So they did, and he was right about hot tamales tasting far more interesting than string beans.

He lived on cinnamon-flavored candies called Hot Tamales and Diet Coke, with pepperoni pizza for protein.

For once, I wasn't even hungry, having pigged out on a cherry limeade and tamales from the Dairee Dee-Lishus on the drive back from Maggody.

So he allowed that roast beef with mashed potatoes and string beans sounded fine, if they'd leave out the string beans and serve him some of the tamales mentioned on the blackboard instead.