I don’t really have a question but I want to talk about noodles, please. Is a tamale a noodle or a sandwich?
This type of food taxonomy is always fascinating and disturbing, as it tends to spawn even more unhinged classifications (ravioli is a dumpling. A bowl of cereal is a salad).
That being said, the most politically neutral take would be that tamales are a pie.
I am angry at the very notion that a tamale could be a noodle.
Technically, a tamale is a calzone according to the cube rule.
Does this mean I can get thin crust tamales in New York, and grease death tamales in Chicago
I understand the cube rule, I just don’t think I can really subscribe to it. Calling a bowl of lucky charms nachos is inaccurate, it’s clearly a soup.
Exactly, cube rule is inconsistent and needlessly complicated. Both are salads
As a Mexican, I am very disturbed by this question. It’s not stupid (that doesn’t exist in this community), it’s just disturbing xD
No, a tamale is not a noodle. Noodles don’t have fillings, are longer, and thinner. It’s like asking if ravioli is a noodle.
As someone from the U.S. who grew up eating Mexican food in Texas, I agree. It is disturbing. The filling is very important to a tamal. They aren’t bendy or thin either. Noodles are thin and bendy
i am new mexico af and i respect your carne guisada, but really. NM food kills it. Please come over to Santa Fe and check out green chile Carne Adovada. “Texas” lol
No. The point of noodles is that they hold their form without any help when you cook them. Without their leafy containers, tamales would be more like polenta/corn meal mush–also yummy but not noodly.
https://prnt.sc/4atIxUL1D90X R-amen.Ramen. May his noodly appendages reach you.
closer to a pie, as pies as have filling.
noodles don’t have filling
what is ravioli? And, is ravioli a dumpling?
David Chang argues that ravioli are dumplings on Ugly Delicious.
I’m inclined to agree in that dumplings and ravioli are the same general idea implemented by different culinary traditions.