DVD Polizei gets honest with Tamale Boy

DVD Polizei · 03-03-05, 06:46 PM

In the local neighborhood, we have a family who runs a local Mexican restaurant--great food by the way. About every week or two, his 10-yr old son knocks on my door, to see if I want any tamales. Well, last summer, their tamales gave me heartburn from hell. They are quite rich in chiles, so I'm thinking they changed the recipe and kicked it up a notch. In any case, I haven't been buying them for the past 3 months.

Finally, last night, I had to tell the kid, I love your tamales, but I just can't eat them anymore, because they give me heartburn so bad. I asked, "Do you have any less-spicy/hot tamales I could buy?" He replies, "We have the red tamales which are less spicy, and we have the green tamales, which are hotter."

"Ahhh, so which ones have I been buying?"

"The red ones."

"Oh."

Anyway, it kinda sucks. The kid is really nice, and his family cooks the best tamales I know of.

kvrdave · 03-03-05, 06:49 PM

Girly man Award goes to.......DVD Polizei

nickdawgy · 03-03-05, 07:03 PM

I knew a guy that sold tamales outside a grocery store near my old house. Great stuff, and really cheap. I don't think it's legal but hey at least they're trying to make a living

pedagogue · 03-03-05, 07:03 PM

<--Wishes he had access to To The Door Tamale service!!

I freakin' love mexican food. The hotter the better. Some goes for thai, indian, creole, etc.

-pedagogue

DVD Polizei · 03-03-05, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by kvrdave

Girly man Award goes to.......DVD Polizei

chente · 03-03-05, 07:18 PM

Door to door tamales are awesome. I wish I had access to some right now. There is a tamale cart only a few blocks away from my apartment that sells them for $1/each. Amazing.

I also miss the homemade sweet potato pie I used to get delivered to my door when I lived in Oakland. Yum.

Kittydreamer · 03-03-05, 07:19 PM

You total wuss!

Seriously, can you hook me up?!? I'm originally from AZ so I grew up on that type of food and miss it a lot.

Too spicy...

Please let me know where this great restaurant is so I can go there and make fun of you I mean, get some of those yummy tamales.

Forum Troll · 03-04-05, 12:29 AM

I get them fresh every day here at work. There's a Mexican lady on the custodial staff and she sells them from her cart (the same cart where she keeps her cleaning supplies and extra rolls of toilet paper!). Good and spicy, they are.

Joe Molotov · 03-04-05, 01:36 AM

Pffftt...heartburn. Just eat the tamales and then a handful of these guys:

costanza · 03-04-05, 01:52 AM

i was kind of hoping that this would be more of a "rub some lotion on my chest tamale boy" story. oh well.

RoQuEr · 03-04-05, 02:44 AM

what are tamales? how are they served?

FinkPish · 03-04-05, 03:37 AM

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Originally Posted by RoQuEr

what are tamales? how are they served?

It's called the internet! Use it!

Giantrobo · 03-04-05, 04:34 AM

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Originally Posted by RoQuEr

what are tamales? how are they served?

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/tamales/

AGuyNamedMike · 03-04-05, 06:37 AM

Now THAT is a useful and well written little site!

Groucho · 03-04-05, 07:30 AM

If I had some kid who would bring tamales to my door, I wouldn't eat anything else. You need to move and let a true-blue tamale lover live there.

Mopower · 03-04-05, 07:50 AM

A Tamale Boy sounds like her dream come true...

Blotto · 03-04-05, 08:13 AM

Have you tried Pepcid Complete. I get terrible heartburn from anything with tomatos in it and pepcid works wonders for me.

brizz · 03-04-05, 10:27 AM

In grad school there was a guy who would come around once a week...he kind of rotated through various buildings on campus. He brought tamales, tacos, and burritos homemade by his mother...good god were they delicious.

Kittydreamer · 03-04-05, 10:32 AM

Hi! I'm still waiting for the name of this fantastic restaurant!

devilshalo · 03-04-05, 10:44 AM

Did you offer Tamale boy some Jesus Juice?

Otto · 03-04-05, 10:53 AM

Go buy a 14 day course of Prilosec and use it. Cures me up for like 6 months. Works great.

I could drink giant jars of battery acid right now and not have heartburn!

Roto · 03-04-05, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Kittydreamer

Hi! I'm still waiting for the name of this fantastic restaurant!

DVD Polizei is a tamale tease

Kittydreamer · 03-04-05, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Roto

DVD Polizei is a tamale tease

I guess we'll just have keep bumping this thread until he tells us where the tamales are.

Green Jello · 03-04-05, 11:13 AM

Forget that Tums crap. Here is the miracle worker:

DRG · 03-04-05, 02:13 PM

???

Can't you just ask if he has Mike & Ike's instead?

03-03-05, 06:46 PM	#1
DVD Polizei DVD Talk Hero Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: On the edge of sanity Posts: 31,430	DVD Polizei gets honest with Tamale Boy In the local neighborhood, we have a family who runs a local Mexican restaurant--great food by the way. About every week or two, his 10-yr old son knocks on my door, to see if I want any tamales. Well, last summer, their tamales gave me heartburn from hell. They are quite rich in chiles, so I'm thinking they changed the recipe and kicked it up a notch. In any case, I haven't been buying them for the past 3 months. Finally, last night, I had to tell the kid, I love your tamales, but I just can't eat them anymore, because they give me heartburn so bad. I asked, "Do you have any less-spicy/hot tamales I could buy?" He replies, "We have the red tamales which are less spicy, and we have the green tamales, which are hotter." "Ahhh, so which ones have I been buying?" "The red ones." "Oh." Anyway, it kinda sucks. The kid is really nice, and his family cooks the best tamales I know of. __________________ Blu-ray Titles: 121 \| HD DVD Titles: 309 "If you think you have the Swine Flu...relax...it's just gas." - DVD P Initial Body Weight on October 2008: 305lbs \| Current Body Weight: 217lbs \| Baseline Body Weight: 217lbs \| Net Weight Loss: 89.5lbs

03-03-05, 06:49 PM	#2
kvrdave DVD Talk God Join Date: Aug 1999 Location: Pacific NW Posts: 68,239	Girly man Award goes to.......DVD Polizei __________________ Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. - C.S. Lewis

03-03-05, 07:18 PM	#6
chente DVD Talk Ultimate Edition Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Dark City Posts: 4,120	Door to door tamales are awesome. I wish I had access to some right now. There is a tamale cart only a few blocks away from my apartment that sells them for $1/each. Amazing. I also miss the homemade sweet potato pie I used to get delivered to my door when I lived in Oakland. Yum. __________________ My DVD Collection / DVD Trade List My HD DVD Collection / My Laserdisc Collection

03-04-05, 01:36 AM	#9
Joe Molotov DVD Talk Hall of Fame Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Oklahoma, USA. Blu-Ray Total: 360 Posts: 8,461	Pffftt...heartburn. Just eat the tamales and then a handful of these guys: __________________ Quote of the Week "Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon... you know, cause I've worked in a lot of offices, and I tell you, people do that all the time." ~George, Seinfeld

03-04-05, 02:44 AM	#11
RoQuEr DVD Talk Limited Edition Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Florida Posts: 5,452	what are tamales? how are they served? __________________ Spoiler: "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we," Bush said. "They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

03-03-05, 07:03 PM	#3
nickdawgy DVD Talk Legend Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Southern Cal-ee-for-nee Posts: 15,647	I knew a guy that sold tamales outside a grocery store near my old house. Great stuff, and really cheap. I don't think it's legal but hey at least they're trying to make a living

03-03-05, 07:03 PM	#4
pedagogue DVD Talk Hero Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 26,337	<--Wishes he had access to To The Door Tamale service!! I freakin' love mexican food. The hotter the better. Some goes for thai, indian, creole, etc. -pedagogue

03-04-05, 12:29 AM	#8
Forum Troll Suspended Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Kaysville, Utah Posts: 1,071	I get them fresh every day here at work. There's a Mexican lady on the custodial staff and she sells them from her cart (the same cart where she keeps her cleaning supplies and extra rolls of toilet paper!). Good and spicy, they are.

03-04-05, 01:52 AM	#10
costanza DVD Talk Ultimate Edition Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: somewhere in between Posts: 4,226	i was kind of hoping that this would be more of a "rub some lotion on my chest tamale boy" story. oh well.

03-04-05, 06:37 AM	#14
AGuyNamedMike DVD Talk Legend Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Fairbanks, Alaska! Posts: 13,249	Now THAT is a useful and well written little site! __________________ “I'M YOU FROM THE FUTURE! I'VE COME BACK IN TIME TO WARN YOU OF THE DANGERS OF MYSPACE!” - HollaDaddy

03-04-05, 07:30 AM	#15
Groucho DVD Talk Hero Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Salt Lake City, Utah Posts: 48,542	If I had some kid who would bring tamales to my door, I wouldn't eat anything else. You need to move and let a true-blue tamale lover live there. __________________ The best of wm lopez, now available on your favorite Twitter client: @wm_lopez / www.twitter.com/wm_lopez Xbox Live: Runner Groucho PSN: RunnerGroucho

03-04-05, 07:50 AM	#16
Mopower DVD Talk Legend Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: The Janitor's closet in Kinnick Stadium Posts: 15,467	A Tamale Boy sounds like her dream come true... __________________ http://www.twitter.com/andrewveedub

03-04-05, 08:13 AM	#17
Blotto Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia Posts: 167	Have you tried Pepcid Complete. I get terrible heartburn from anything with tomatos in it and pepcid works wonders for me.

03-04-05, 10:27 AM	#18
brizz DVD Talk Legend Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: bacon Posts: 17,761	In grad school there was a guy who would come around once a week...he kind of rotated through various buildings on campus. He brought tamales, tacos, and burritos homemade by his mother...good god were they delicious. __________________ Remembering is always about some degree of forgetting - David W. Blight

03-04-05, 10:44 AM	#20
devilshalo DVD Talk Legend Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Somewhere between Heaven and Hell Posts: 20,030	Did you offer Tamale boy some Jesus Juice? __________________ I get paid to talk. I don't have an M.D. or Law Degree. I have a bachelors in kickin' ass and taking names. You know that guy who can pick up any girl? I'm him... on crack. - Nick Naylor XBox Live Gamertag: DevHalo

03-04-05, 10:53 AM	#21
Otto Banned Join Date: Sep 1999 Location: Memphis, TN Posts: 11,544	Go buy a 14 day course of Prilosec and use it. Cures me up for like 6 months. Works great. I could drink giant jars of battery acid right now and not have heartburn!

03-04-05, 11:13 AM	#24
Green Jello Banned Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Reno, NV Posts: 2,893	Forget that Tums crap. Here is the miracle worker:

03-04-05, 02:13 PM	#25
DRG DVD Talk Hall of Fame Join Date: Aug 1999 Location: ND Posts: 9,771	??? Can't you just ask if he has Mike & Ike's instead?