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Hallacas vs. Tamales

The rope is not edible but the masa is divine!
Show transcript
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I just hate that.
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People always call a tamales.
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Everyone.
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Every time someone sees an oh, is that?
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Oh no, it's an in Venezuela we eat.
00:14
It's magical.
00:15
It's beautiful.
00:17
Wait, wait, what?
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It sounds like a karate move.
00:24
I've never had a before.
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I don't even really know what they look like.
00:30
Hay for Mexicans.
00:34
I feel like the holiday food is definitely like tamales one
00:38
year.
00:38
I was so poor.
00:39
Uh The only thing I unwrap for tamales.
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I moved up the assembly line of making tamales in my family
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So now I'm at the masa pudding.
00:47
I never got there.
00:49
I never moved up.
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I'm, I'm still like soaking the husk.
00:54
I think this is the first I've ever shared.
00:58
I love who, you know, you got the husk husk.
01:01
It out of the tamale is not a word.
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So you have to say tamales or I get like so much happiness when
01:09
I just bite into a, I like the seasoning on it.
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A lot of the or the meat.
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Both.
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I like the like the is what makes a but it is a little dry.
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It is a little dry.
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It's good though.
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I would eat it.
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I would eat like five of these in just one sitting.
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Did you know that uh frozen tomato taste better than fresh
01:29
tamales?
01:30
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01:35
that money.
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It's, it's a gift from the Venezuelan God.
01:41
Wait, you need scissors to cut this the ribbon cutting ceremony
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That's like so much work.
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Listen to this noise like you can't open it with your hands
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Well, it is worth it.
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Do you know how much work goes into?
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And it's still, there's still more.
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Is it edible?
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The rope?
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No, no, no, no.
02:03
Wow.
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It's yellow.
02:07
It takes forever to get to the food.
02:09
Yeah.
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But in the end there's more.
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Oh, yeah.
02:11
Oh my God.
02:12
That's how, you know, it's good.
02:15
Mm.
02:15
Kind of smells like green tea if you know what I mean?
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Yeah.
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Mm.
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There's all kinds of little like treats and goodies inside
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It's pretty cool.
02:28
Wow.
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This is like divine.
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There's raisin in here.
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You know what I like that?
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I like raisins and stuff.
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I will choose a Venezuelan Christmas any day because I'm Venezuelan
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and because it tastes better, I really can't choose over.
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The, I'm not saying this is not good.
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I would take one of each.
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But what if you had to, if I had to choose, I think I would go with
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this every time you get a, you don't know.
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Is it moist?
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Is it dry?
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Not with these ones, you know, every damn time there's gonna
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be some moisture in there.
02:59
Wow, this is so good.
03:00
Look at our Yeah, she, she's in this, I'm sure she loves this
03:07
I will always choose because that is where my heart is.
03:11
What does your heart tell you?
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My heart tells me this one.
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But to me this is still a, it's like a tamale.
03:22
Sorry.