Tamales Quotes

• But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Food, Cooking, Hot

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.236, e-artnow

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• Do you want to make a tamale with peanut butter and jelly? Go Ahead! Somebody will eat it.

  Bobby Flay

  Peanut Butter, Jelly, Want

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• When I think of my Latina side, I imagine family barbecues with carne asada, rice, beans, tortillas and a jalapeno on my plate along with 'Vicente Fernandez' blaring out the speakers. Spicy food. Salsa. Tamales. Family.

  Alicia Sixtos

  Thinking, Jalapenos, Sides

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Madame Ratignolle hoped that Robert would exercise extreme caution in dealing with the Mexicans, who, she considered, were a treacherous people, unscrupulous and revengeful. She trusted she did them no injustice in thus condemning them as a race. She had known personally but one Mexican, who made and sold excellent tamales, and whom she would have trusted implicitly, so soft-spoken was he. One day he was arrested for stabbing his wife. She never knew whether he had been hanged or not.

  Kate Chopin

  Exercise, Race, People

  Kate Chopin (2011). “The Awakening and Other Writings”, p.94, Broadview Press

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• As a man I'd been a cool customer. As a woman I was a hot tamale.

  Barry Webster

  Men, Hot, Customers

  Barry Webster (2012). “The Lava in My Bones”, p.92, arsenal pulp press

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• They say California's the big burrito; Texas is a big taco right now. We want to follow that through. Florida is a big tamale.

  Dan Rather

  Florida, Texas, California

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• Oh, by the way, is this your armor? (Grace) It is, or was. (Julian) Can we keep it? (Grace) If you like. Why? (Julian) ’Cause, ooo baby, you are one hot tamale in that getup. This outfit alone will get you laid at least four or five times a day. (Grace)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Grace, Hot

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• In Puerto Rico, we have a lot of traditions. We eat a very typical thing that's called 'pasteles' - it's almost like a tamale made of bananas, and we make it all together. Like, all the women of the family unite, and it's a very big deal, a very big thing.

  Joyce Giraud

  Together, Typical, Bananas

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• There were lots of things that I recognized from my experience with Eagle Claw and Wu Hao, and here was the combination of the whole kit and kaboodle, the whole tamale in one.

  Lou Reed

  Eagles, Combination, Claws

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