Wait, I thought all those Mexicans say that its all really America and they are really Americans. So confused...
Sorry GUY, the TRES LECHES cake is from my country of birth Nicaragua! This is what i've heard all my life....article below! http://www.ehow.com/about_5395039_history-tres-leches-cake.html
so because of hydro and his pupusa talk i had to go eat some. my mom's salvadorean church friend brought her some homemade ones and i drove all the way from work to 'dope (oak) forest' to eat some. now stop it with the 3 leches talk before i get in the car and drive to 'el bolillo'.
This is the problem with America these days! All this talk about foreign foods. No one even mentioning good old American foods like pizza, tacos and hot dogs!
If it makes you feel any better, I work in the pizza business but I highly discourage our players from eating it. Too unhealthy. But Ill bring some pizzas to a party if I have to. And I'm not Sure how American pizza and tacos are.
And of course, EVERY country in the northern part of Latin America has some version of tamales. REAL STORY: The best tamales I've ever had were in western Guatemala. When I used to do business in Central America, I spent a couple of days in Quezaltenango, and they served me some potato (or as Mr. Quayle would write: "potatoe") tamales called paches. I looked around in Houston and found them at Panaderia El Quetzal (was it the Gessner branch?). Awesome, just awesome. Try them some time.
One Christmas I was in Costa Rica with my parents. My mother, a white native hill country Texan was craving some Christmas tamales cause we kept seeing "tamales" signs all over. We finally found a place our taxi driver said had good ones. The lady laughed at my mom when she ordered 6, she said she would start her off with one. When it came it was huge and really like a stew, inside the banana leaf and masa were big pieces of carrots, beans, meat, potato. I thought it was really good but my parents were dissappointed they didn't get their Christmas Texan tamales. Later our taxi driver laughed and told us about the time he went to Texas and ordered a tamal and the waitress kept asking if that was all he wanted. He thought she was crazy until he saw the tiny little thing she brought out that he thought would be his dinner.
Maybe they should be called Central American tamales because that's how they are made in El Salvador too. I prefer the Mexican ones. I can eat about 6-7 of those with no problem
As a lily-white American from up north I agree with this statement. The best tamales I ever had were in Santa Ana, CA. It also helps that I love pork and between tamale street vendors and carnicerias it was incredibly easy to get.
We may have made the smartest DP signing in MLS. I can't think of another player who's had this sort of impact, especially in this short a period of time.