Author Topic: KC Tamale thread (Read 4301 times)

Dugout DickStone · « **on:** January 22, 2011, 12:44:55 PM »

Got some from the MExican Sunfresh off of 70, really liked them. Where can I pick up good ones for home use?

jtksu · « **Reply #1 on:** January 22, 2011, 02:45:00 PM »

Go to the Mexican neighborhood. Also, pick up some homemade tortillas while you're there.

Dugout DickStone · « **Reply #2 on:** January 22, 2011, 05:34:27 PM »

Quote from: jtksu on January 22, 2011, 02:45:00 PM

Go to the Mexican neighborhood. Also, pick up some homemade tortillas while you're there.

Hadn't thought of that. Thanks jt!

CNS · « **Reply #3 on:** January 22, 2011, 08:03:50 PM »

If you ever find yourself near Bonner Springs, they have a small joint named Freseros(or something like that). Very good authentic tamales. They sell them to go by the dozen($14 or so).

They make them once a week and freeze them. The lady that works there says they are similar to gumbo in that they are better after they are frozen and that the immediately freeze all that they make. I gotta believe her because theirs are pretty good.

Don't know if you had tried them before the they went out of biz, but I compare them to California Taquria(SP) that used to be at Chavez and SW Blvd in KC about 5 or 6 yrs ago.(my prev fav place for tamales).

Cire · « **Reply #4 on:** January 22, 2011, 11:09:34 PM »

had home made pork tamales tonight from real live old mexican people.

Pete · « **Reply #5 on:** January 22, 2011, 11:25:24 PM »

I love tamales.

My folks get loads of them from real, live, Mexicans in Topeka. The annual Mexican Fiesta in Topeka is a great place to get them.

In the KC area, I haven't found a retail outlet to get them in bulk.

jtksu · « **Reply #6 on:** January 22, 2011, 11:50:56 PM »

Tamlesfactory.webs.com
Kinda expensive though.

pissclams · « **Reply #7 on:** January 23, 2011, 01:45:18 PM »

camino real in kck

wELLsculptedbrows · « **Reply #8 on:** January 24, 2011, 11:10:11 AM »

Tienda Casa Paloma in Overland Park used to have some really incredible Vera Cruz style tamales (wrapped in banana leaves, not corn husks) that you could buy in bulk. It's changed owners, and is now called Gavinos, but I think it's owned by the folks that used to cook there.

This thread reminded me I have neglected trying their tamales since the ownership change. Will try, ask about pre-made bulk tamale purchases, and report back.

Dr Rick Daris · « **Reply #9 on:** January 24, 2011, 12:24:09 PM »

nothing strikes me as more funny than a bunch of pasty white kansas people trying to talk tamales and act like they really like them when in fact everybody knows that they are not very good and only people trying to pose as enjoying mexican food to the fullest pretend like they are. what a joke. all the real fans are laughing at you guys.

Mikeyis4dcats · « **Reply #10 on:** January 24, 2011, 12:32:02 PM »

tamales suck.

steve dave · « **Reply #11 on:** January 24, 2011, 12:36:22 PM »

there is a place in omaha called Roja that has really good pork tamales. sd credibility? married to a latina of some sort. boom, roasted.

pissclams · « **Reply #12 on:** January 24, 2011, 12:41:49 PM »

true story- clams has never eaten a tamale.

Saulbadguy · « **Reply #13 on:** January 24, 2011, 12:43:18 PM »

The ones out of the can are mighty good eatin'

Cire · « **Reply #14 on:** January 24, 2011, 12:46:33 PM »

I'm not a huge tamale fan but the one's I had on Saturday were very good. again, not as a meal but like an appetizer.

steve dave · « **Reply #15 on:** January 24, 2011, 01:09:18 PM »

Quote from: pissclams on January 24, 2011, 12:41:49 PM

true story- clams has never eaten a tamale.

you seem like the kind of person that would like them. only get pork.

pissclams · « **Reply #16 on:** January 24, 2011, 01:21:28 PM »

i have no idea what's even in them. will investigate further. i do love enchiladas though, i've always assumed they were pretty much the same thing.

Dr Rick Daris · « **Reply #17 on:** January 24, 2011, 01:23:09 PM »

Quote from: steve dave on January 24, 2011, 12:36:22 PM

there is a place in omaha called Roja that has really good pork tamales. sd credibility? married to a latina of some sort. boom, roasted.

i've never seen anyone quite take their desire to carry out a ruse this far. congrats i guess. still doesn't change the fact that tamales are not good and that you are just pretending to like them and in fact have probably never even eaten one. the things people will do for mexican food cred these days, i swear.

pissclams · « **Reply #18 on:** January 24, 2011, 01:27:40 PM »

true story- just did some research on what's in tamales. not sure i will like them. odds are i might not, i would estimate on a scale of 1-10 that the chance i like them is a 2. i do not like masa and apparently masa is inside of a tamale with the meat and sauce and chilis.

Cire · « **Reply #19 on:** January 24, 2011, 01:29:19 PM »

Quote from: pissclams on January 24, 2011, 01:27:40 PM

true story- just did some research on what's in tamales. not sure i will like them. odds are i might not, i would estimate on a scale of 1-10 that the chance i like them is a 2. i do not like masa and apparently masa is inside of a tamale with the meat and sauce and chilis.

YEAH, you would not like if you don't like masa.

jtksu · « **Reply #20 on:** January 24, 2011, 01:36:21 PM »

One of my aunts made some chicken tamales this year at X-mas. They were okay, I guess, but WTF was she thinking? Surprised that crap was even allowed.

OK_Cat · « **Reply #21 on:** January 24, 2011, 05:14:39 PM »

Quote from: jtksu on January 24, 2011, 01:36:21 PM

One of my aunts made some chicken tamales this year at X-mas. They were okay, I guess, but WTF was she thinking? Surprised that crap was even allowed.

'grats, jtksu

Dugout DickStone · « **Reply #22 on:** January 24, 2011, 06:22:41 PM »

I should have said no skwaks post in this thread. Sorry rd.

jtksu · « **Reply #23 on:** January 24, 2011, 07:55:56 PM »

Love tamales, just not sure why my aunt decided to make chicken ones after making pork ones for like the last...well, my entire life. It would be like if my other aunt decided to switch up her mole recipe. But mole would deserve it's own thread...