I worked with a young man who was engaged to a Hispanic girl and when my church sold tamales, he bought a dozen mild. Next
morning first thing he said was this.: I went home and microwaved all the tamales and had trouble eating them, No, amount of ketchup made them edible, they were so crunchy and hard to swallow. Then his mother told him he was supposed to take the corn husks off. LOL
I had some friends over for dinner, I thought I would make something different so I slow cooked an ox tongue.
One of the guests declined saying he could not eat something from an animals mouth, so I cooked him an omelette.
Well sorry about that, you have eaten tamales before, right? They are steam cooked in a cornhusk (leaves from like corn on the cob) You take the husks off before eating the ears of corn. My mistake was that I assumed he was aware of how to eat the tamales as he was dating her.