On 11/8/2017 5:59 PM, cshenk wrote:
> jmcquown wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>> On 11/6/2017 8:38 AM, Nancy2 wrote:
>>> Jill, I have had canned Hormel beef tamales, and they aren't bad,
>>> but I don't know what authentic ones are supposed to look and taste
>>> like. Anyway, they were tasty enough for me. ;-))
>>>
>>> N.
>>>
>> I remember those!
>>
>> Jill
>
> Yes. It's been ages but long ago I had a roommate who made a tastey
> cassarole with them.
>
It was in the early 1980's I mentioned the Hormel canned tamales (I'd
never tasted a *real* tamale before then) to a girlfriend. She called
and said she was going to bake them in the oven. I said, "You do
realize they're wrapped in paper, right?" Nope. She immediately took
them out of the oven and removed the paper. No one really wants to be
surprised to find they're biting into parchment paper.

Jill