DrafterX wrote:Hey Damn... you think if you asked a Mexican at work where they get their tamales they'd get offended..?? A little Mexican woman used to drop in my wife's shop selling them every now and then... she's dead now tho...
I used to get them from a Mexican aide once a year. Her kids school had an annual fundraiser all the abuelas would get together and make a bunch of tamales for the school and sell em for $10/doz and I'd load up.
But her kids are out of that school now. I asked her if she'd get me some anyway and she said no.
Asked another one and she told me to go up to the harbor (east chicago) and stop at any mexican store. I want the good chit. The homemade masa and stuff. I've had the tamales from a couple stores up there and they're not as good as handmade abuela tamales. I assume they use premade masa. Finding a place that makes everything from scratch is a bit harder. The place in Indy does, but I'm not paying $40/doz... I'll pay $20 if it's the real deal.
There's an old lady that sells em out of a minivan in north Hammond, but you never know when or where she's gonna be out there.
I'll find me the good spot eventually. Only started thinking about it the last couple weeks when I realized the fundraiser tamales never came up.