Bandit: If your tamale purchase doesn't look like a drug deal, you aren't getting the best

If your tamale purchase doesn't look like a drug deal, you aren't getting the best

i EXCLUSIVELY buy that shit outside of a Home Depot out of an igloo cooler because that is the real real

Also: Tamale hookups from local abuelas selling them for church fundraisers. Deal sweetened by the most senior abuelas giving me kisses on the cheeks as I’m trying to leave with the tasty bounty.

when I first moved to Denver in 1996, worked in an office, the breakfast burrito lady with the cooler selling brekkie b's for a dollar OMG they were so simple and so good.

I still think about the ones my wife and I used to get at the end of a long ride home from work at the 22nd Street Caltrain station.

I miss the tamale lady who used to walk around the neighborhood, pre COVID, yelling, "tamales, tamales!" IDK where to get them now. I've also lost track of my drug dealer. *Sigh*

Look for the person standing by their car with the trunk open in the parking lot of the Mexican supermarket (for tamales)

Yeah, I need to go to the Latinx area but I got spoiled having them brought right to my street.

One time I was leaving my CARDIOLOGIST and these extremely enterprising abuelas had the late 90s Ford Explorer/cooler combo waiting outside like a damn police sting op. Tasty, tasty entrapment.

there's a small tienda nearby me that does tamales in the very back of the store on saturdays only, no signs, all word of mouth

Janitor at my old office used to come round once a week with a cooler full of hot and fresh homemade tamales. Cash only, really good.

the formal options in San Diego are pretty good too

Say more please!!

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Thank you! I was just thinking recently I need a better tamale hookup.

It’s always a lady someone knows about who you have to meet in a parking lot.

I look like a high-level dealer then because I buy them a couple dozen at a time and have to pick them up at my vendor's house in packages that do look a little like a kilo bag!

For real. I was on the phone with my brother while he was walking home from his college class and he was like, "Hold on, the guy with the backpack full of tamales is on the other side of this crosswalk, gotta stop and get a couple."

This is not yet happening a lot in the Deep South yet but I am damn ready for it

The trade off is that your gas stations make real food

well and theres also a moonshine guy in my town

It was a whole thing in Wichita. In South Jersey it's just the Sons of Italy selling five dollar hoagies which, they're fine but it's not the same. Did meet up a dim sum guy outside the shuttered Cherry Hill Mall during lockdown though.

The ambiance of going to a then-dead mall and meeting a nervous guy who barely spoke English and venmoing cash was somewhat spoiled by the vehicle wrap on the minivan though.

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I got the hookup

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