They both look like they are enjoying them way too much.
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I didn’t think that was a gaffe on her part at all although it certainly spun like one. An interviewer asked her the question “what do you carry in your purse?”
At that point Hillary had three options:
- Tell the interviewer that the question was sexist and she would refuse to answer it (a fair answer but probably unproductive for winning over voters)
- Lie
- Share the actual contents of her purse
For the life of me I cannot understand why she’s supposed to be ashamed of carrying hot sauce.
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I love tamales but have never had them without sauce and a fork and knife handy; are they typically treated as finger-food outside of tex-mex restaurants?
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In Tijuana, the roadside salespeople wrap them in tinfoil, and you peel it back along with the corn husk.
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Nice. Someday I’d like to experience a Tijuana roadside vendor tamale; sounds like a fine midday snack!
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Roadside vendors are where it’s at!
In only a few kilometers, one could practically have a 5-course meal, and churros for dessert.
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I love corn taken from a vat of hot water, slathered with butter, and shook all over with chilli powder (you’re excused obviously!). Just tastes better from a street vendor.
Which reminds me: Trump lost. How’s the taco trucks on every corner working out for y’all?
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Not so good, thanks to the pandemic.
ETA: I know a couple of folks down here in Tijuana who have gone out of business because the first and second waves hit Tijuana hard.
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On a similar note, if you like tamales, the Chinese version is also really good. Sticky rice with stuff steamed in either banana, bamboo, or lotus leaves
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Faux News spun it as pandering to Black women, which, in itself, was a pretty racist assumption.
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Roadside vendors and gas station restaurants (not chains but mom n’ pops that setup shop there) get an undeservedly bad rap.
I had jerk chicken in Jamaica from a roadside vendor that was hands-down in the top three best chicken dishes I’ve ever eaten, and enjoy exploring the unique food of any given area. Someday I’ll eat on the roadside in Mexico!
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Is “Black women carry hot sauce everywhere” even a real stereotype? I’d honestly never heard that one before Fox made a big deal out of it.
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I voted for taco trucks, dammit! I was robbed!
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Maybe - but it was in a cup - not on a stick. Guy on a bike with one of those boxes on it, like an old time ice cream seller, was riding around selling it.
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This is how they do it in TJ. A person with a big pot and a lot of sides to mix with your cup of corn nibs.
ETA: Oh, and just to debunk the lie of “roadside vendor food will make you sick”. That’s a bunch of malarkey. I’ve been sick only twice after eating at a roadside vendor in over six years, and there was not even any way I could tell for certain that was the cause.
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We made joke about it while eating it - but we were fine. This was in Cancun. Friends parents lived there, a few miles from the tourists strip.
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No shame in falling ill- it happens to the best of us, but yeah, how can you mention something so benign as carrying hot sauce in your purse, but not an incident like vomiting on the Japanese Prime Minister (George HW). I actually heard of about that story, and I was only a schoolboy at the time.
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It was spun as pandering because it was something she said on The Breakfast Club a few months after Formation dropped and was still showing up on tons of bootleg merch. Her love of hot sauce was well known before that, so it wasn’t a shocking or inaccurate answer, but the timing and venue let people run with it.
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