52 minutes ago, IowaDee said:For those of you who have access to Trader Joe's tamales, how to they stack up? We were planning to make the 125 mile trek to the nearest
store and tamales were high on my list. That was before all the Covid crap hit the fan.
I bought them once. I think there were 2 or 3 in a pack. I found them boring and the masa did not taste of corn and was too dense. The most surprising I ever had were at a roadside stand between Ensenada and La Bufadora.. Big steaming pots. Smaller in size than what I see as the norm here. More snack size. The filling was chicken hacked on the bone and olives. They were selling homemade olive oil and the olives were good. (with pits). We spit the bones and pits out on the dirt roadside. There was cold beer in our cooler 
