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Tamale Wrappers?

Tamale is English, tamal is Spanish. ;)

Either is fine but:

Un tamal por favor =
One tamale please

PS. Gemme did you check in the Spanish aisle where the dried peppers are? That's where they'd be.
 
I don't know, but can tell you that in Houston you see it both ways at different restaurants. Could be regional, too. Some regions of Mexico pronounce the 'c' of cerveza like an 's', and others like 'th', so I can see 'tamal' vs. 'tamale' possibly being regional. Possibly.....
 
The Hot Pepper said:
PS. Gemme did you check in the Spanish aisle where the dried peppers are? That's where they'd be.
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Of course. And no, they're not. Trust me on this - they really don't have them. For that matter "the Spanish aisle" is only one side of half an aisle. Dried peppers? They have four pegs for dried peppers, and only 2 varieties. On the other hand, if I want Jaritos, they have several varieties of that.... and "Mexican Coke".
 
geeme said:
Of course. And no, they're not. Trust me on this - they really don't have them. For that matter "the Spanish aisle" is only one side of half an aisle. Dried peppers? They have four pegs for dried peppers, and only 2 varieties. On the other hand, if I want Jaritos, they have several varieties of that.... and "Mexican Coke".
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Geeme, I think it is time for a short road trip. Don't you need to visit your daughter anyway? I think it is a safe bet that you could find a Spanish aisle with corn husks here. Come on down, it will do you some good to get out of that northern city anyway.

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Oh...... HUSH you! :lol:

Actually, yes - - - we just talked about a visit once the semester is over in a few weeks!
 
salsalady said:
nice pic Jeff, but where's the corn husks? :lol:
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Hell, I don't know, but I know they are there somewhere. Jungle Jim's is so damn big I had to ask for help finding the tamarind I was looking for a couple of months ago. There were 3-4 aisles full of Asian/Indian stuff that I had to wade through and it took a while.
 
I'm just ribbin' ya. ;) I wouldn't expect you to run out to the store just to take a picture of corn husks. At least they spelled "chipotle" right. ~
 
geeme said:
I don't know, but can tell you that in Houston you see it both ways at different restaurants. Could be regional, too. Some regions of Mexico pronounce the 'c' of cerveza like an 's', and others like 'th', so I can see 'tamal' vs. 'tamale' possibly being regional. Possibly.....
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I haven't researched this deeply but the generally accepted way of using the word is tamal for singular and tamales for plural, but as mentioned before i have heard spanish speakers say tamale when referring to one tamal. The word tamal is a corruption tamalli in Nahuatl, what you might be noticing when someone says tamale instead of tamal could be one of two things; it could be a less hispanicized version of the word more closely connected to it's indigenous root, or a very poor spanish speaker who is anglicizing the word without knowing it.
 
My point was, tamale is in the English dictionary, like salad, we took from ensalada. So using it as tamale is correct, in English (per Oxford's).

http://oxforddiction...tamale?q=tamale

And you are correct, this entry also says the origin is Nahuatl - tamalii. So there you go. The root has the long e sound.

So tamal is correct, in Sp. Tamale, Eng. Say however you like! Chile, chili.

Back on topic, get those husks? ;)
 
"There are a couple on the other side of downtown, which is a longer haul than I want to make just for corn husks."

HA!
The nearest town of any size is 3 hrs away.

3.5 hrs---250 miles south to Vegas, or 260 miles north to Reno for me.

Doctors, dentists,big hardware stores for appliances and building supplies, movies and resturants----every shopping trip for other than essentiials is a minimum of a 16 hr. day.

I laff at your "long haul".
:P
 
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