Tamale Quotes & Sayings

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

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

You look like a hot tamale."
"That's not really a compliment. — Simone Elkeles

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

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

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

We're not fighting for a scrap of sharecropper immortality with the strings hanging off it like Mafioso spaghetti. We want the whole tamale. The Johnsons are taking over the Western Lands. We built it with our brains and our hands. We paid for it with our blood and our lives. It's ours and we're going to take it. And we are not applying in triplicate to the Immortality Control Board. Anybody gets in our way we will get our communal back against a rock or a tree and fight the way a raccoon will fight a fucking dog. — William S. Burroughs

As a man I'd been a cool customer. As a woman I was a hot tamale. — Barry Webster

The use of food metaphors is really well established English ... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale. — Erin McKean

But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning. — F Scott Fitzgerald