Mexican Moms Try CANNED Tamales! 

Would you ever try any of these tamales? 😮

the fact they translated "ay guey" as "damn, bruh" 💀

As a Mexican I am privileged to have grown up with fresh tamales. Just the best tamales in the world. Two Mexican grandmas, and a bunch of aunts that all made tamales. Not to mention my father’s job was in Los Angeles, so access to the best Mexican bakery that made the best tamales in California. Not even subjective, just factually the best. With that out of the way… I have a dirty little secret. I love the cheap tamales that come in the white plastic wrapping! *XLNT* beef tamales they’re called. No texture, kinda mushy… but pure bliss. Especially when paired with scrambled eggs. Forget about it. Edit: OMG they tried it! I made the comment before I finished the video! I’m dead… LoL

An episode trying different tamales from Latin America. Pasteles from Puerto Rico, Nacatamales from Nicaragua, Humitas from Peru, etc.

Can we get the moms to try the chomoy pickle!!!!! Please 😢❤❤❤

This video is making me crave tamales, but real ones, homemade. 😊

I love how much energy the one mom always has, what a gem.

One thing you can say about the Hormel tamale is that it isn't anywhere close to dry

I love the Hormell tamales 😂😂😂

In our household, the next day we take our left over tamales and we fry them too. They’re good with salsa 🤤

My wife puts the beef canned tamales in a pan, covers them with Dennisons’ chili with no beans, shredded cheese and heats in oven. Serves it over white rice. It’s pretty good.

Please do a video where they all rate each others homemade tamales 🫔❗️

I love that there’s six different tasters for six results. More of this format.

The canned ones can't hold a candle to homemade of course, but even so they remind me of winter day camping when I was young and my backyard was the woods. Still comfort food to me.

They were such good sports I think they deserve a real treat. I've tried most of those and would have given them a 3 at best.

The BEST tamales are homemade! I used to help a family make tamales at Christmas. I think the most we made in one setting was 24 dozen, plus we made several dozen sweet tamales.

My mother and I make chicken and pork tamales every year. We aren’t Mexican but we use a very good recipe. They are fantastic. We make a ton and freeze them. I can eat like 15 at a time 😂

Tamales are always Best when they are homemade! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🤤🤤🤤🤤

I’m so glad I live in California. Our local Latin market sells decent tamales, but none beat my next door neighbors tamales. So good! Everything here looks bad “No, chica, No!”😂😂😂

I won't ever forget my first Hormel tamale... Nothing compared to my neighborhood homemade kinds.

I love how they're like "Too salty, feels raw, I couldn't even find the meat......I'll give it a 3". Very lenient with their scores lol.

I eat those Tuscon green chili ones and I agree, the masa is way too soft but still pretty good

I'm not terribly surprised that at least two people reported a strong cumin taste from Hormel's canned offering. I haven't tried their tamales, but when I was growing up, chili meant Hormel canned chili. At the time, I didn't know what cumin was. But when I started learning to cook, I quickly identified cumin as "that chili spice". I don't knock their chili. I like chili, and Hormel was the first chili I ever tasted. It's just that they do seem to be quite enamored with that spice. Cumin is a common spice in Mexican and Tex-Mex cuisine, but I think Hormel uses more cumin in their canned chili products than Taco Bell uses in their ground beef. It's... if I say it's "a lot", that might be too judgmental, especially for foods I grew up on. So I'll instead go with "certainly there". So if they say "in chili sauce" on the label for their canned tamales, I'm not surprised that "chili" implies "certainly there" quantities of cumin.

Where's the H-E-B tamales! They are awesome, not better than homemade but close. They also come in a variety of flavors, even weird ones. Could do a whole episode on them.

When the lady said they keep getting worse lmaooo

Christmas coming up! Let them rank each others blind folded!

You gotta be in a real low place to even consider canned tamales 😖

My grandma was a Spanish-Mexican but she never made us tamales. My dad told me that grandpa used to say, "The best tasting tamales are made by a 97 year-old lady with three teeth and her own matata." There's no way these store-bought tamales would EVER pass muster with these ladies. My favorites are the Veracruz-style with the banana leaf instead of corn paper. Great flavor!

I like the mom with the white lace collar who said, “tiene callas 🤣

If I remember lucy's mom correctly she will watch lucy's parts of the video and cry. 😅

I am mixed ethnicity (Asian +) and I really love Mexican food! just have to minimize eating the heavy rich stuff (lard-rich beans, etc) as it upsets my stomach, and tamales are my favorite!!!!

Tamales in a jar (can) is Mexican food. When slavery ended, there was an influx of Mexicans going to Mississippi to work. They are the ones who created the jar tamales (also called hot tamales.) Mexico is very regional. It’s like the US. A New Yorker will say any non New York pizza is not real pizza.

When a bag of tamales fell while Lucy was talking 😂😂😂 4:35

Our local Mexican restaurant serves pork tamales wrapped in banana leaves. The leaves give the masa a slight green color but they taste delicious! Especially with salsa verde.

My cousins wife was from a little village outside of Tampico. She made us tamales once. Inside was like beef stew, beef, potatoes, other veggies. They were good. There is a restaurant somewhere in California if think it does tamales from traditional to dessert ones. All different flavors.

I loved this! I would have enjoyed if they each got to try a real authentic home made tamale at the end!

I love all this moms. They know the real stuff. ❤❤❤ Me encantan todas estas mamás. Ellas si saben. ❤❤❤

Love these segments!

The Hormel tamales are okay if you don’t consider it a tamal 😂 they’re super cumin-y. I grew to like them with some bottled hot sauce. But yeah, it’s definitely not a tamal.

It really does remind me of dog food, I glad I’m not the only one. Compared to the real thing which is one of my favorite foods.

Nothing beats grandmas home cooked tamales!!! But, right now even canned tamales sound good when you live in a Mexican food desert like me😢😂

I always watch this channel and I loved it, Love you guys❤️

"This is trash, fam" 6:40 😭😭😭 You know damn well that's not what she said, my Spanish is trash, but even I know that.

I love fresh homemade tamales. I've tried the can Hormel version in a pinch and actually do enjoy them.

As a Mexican that lives in SoCal, I always think about if it’s worth the alternatives vs fresh tamales. I like tamales, but where I live they’re $18 a dozen. Just outrageous prices. And they’re on every street corner. If I had to eat something I like having the canned tamales. Whether with sunny side eggs in the morning for breakfast or chili flavor Fritos chips for lunch. I view the canned tamales as “acceptable”. They’re okay and do the job.

As a kid in the 70s we had Miguel's, a mexican restaurant, a couple blocks from our house. He would bring the neighborhood moms in and teach them traditional recipes then show them the tweaks he made to make them more middle america friendly. Later I lived in a mostly Hispanic area and impatiently waited for Sundays when the neighborhood moms would come around selling homemade tamales, enchiladas, and tacos. I think the ladies are far too kind in their ratings of these store bought tamales. Although when I was first starting out on my own I would put Hormel canned tamales in a loaf pan, dump a can of Hormel chili con carne on top with a ton of cheese and bake it up. White trash budget tamale bake 😆😆😆!

I knew nothing other than canned tamales, and loved them as much as I loved canned ravioli. Although I now know more about the infinite varieties of tamales, and how good they can be, I still think of Hormel beef tamales as childhood comfort food.

I grew up on those things but we didn't live in a Mexican community and my mom was German and didn't make this kind of food. My dad made a few dishes (rice, quesadillas and guacamole). We were so far removed for the Mexican culture that we didn't realize those foods he made were traditional Mexican foods until we went to Mexican restaurants when we were older. We just thought it was food that my dad made up. We had the Mexican TV dinners, the little frozen tacos, the canned refried beans, chilli and tamales. I know, it's sad.

My mom liked the tamales in a can when she was feeling under the weather! 😂 She knew how bad they were, she felt so guilty for eating such bad tamales, and we gave her hell for it. We only made tamales on holidays because they’re so much work, but still… 🤢

It would be fun to get into the kitchen with these women and see how they make their own tamales. I buy Xlint sometimes but usually cook them in the oven and add sauce, but I've helped make them at a friend's house when they were cooking them up for Christmas and I've eaten homemade that a coworker from Central America brought into work as a treat...hers were wrapped in banana leaves and had a totally different flavor.

We grew up eating these. I like can tamales

My mom SWEARS by these freakin' canned tamales. My entire life she raved about how it was her 'favorite food growing up'. (She's a vegetarian now if that says anything) I finally tried it last year. I straight up almost vomited LMAO. Those Trader Joe's ones though? Bomb. I go out of my way to buy those, actually.

I moved to New Jersey and missed my beloved New Mexican food and now I moved back after 26 years….but I’m a vegetarian now so I’ll be eating my favorite tamales as soon as I find a vegetarian option….but these ladies are so cool….😊

Try belizean tamales!!! Plssss mamah

My friends mom used to make a Mexican Pot Roast every New Years holiday that took 2 days to make. The 1st day was cooking and shredding the meat and the 2nd day finishing it with beans and cheese and other stuff. The one secret ingredient she had was the canned tamales which added the masa to the mix. Of course they got all broken up and mixed into everything so they really didn't resemble tamales any more. That's what made it the secret ingredient.

Love this channel so much ♥️♥️♥️

Not the lizard claw! 🦎 😂😂😂😂

My mom used to love those. She take a can pour chili on top with cheese and bake em. They were ok for a cheap meal when your broke. They aRe what people call Louisiana style tamales. But to be honest give me some normal tamales any day. Chicken pork beef the sweet ones. One f my mom's good friends used to make sweet tamales with a like Chutney of raisins and pineapple in the middle. She would tank raisins and small diced hunks of pineapple and cook Thu in a pan with some pineapple juice a bit of sugar and some cinnamon and nutmeg. She'd boil it till I I thick like the consistancy of smushed tamarind.then she would fill the masa in husks like normal and steam them. They were so good. Her grandma came up with the recipe for xmas. Which we all know that's usually the time familia gets other and stuff hundreds of tamales for days up til the xmas party. I'm a white boy but i grew up in san diego having many Hispanic friends of the family and school buddies. I've partaken in the tradition or Making tamales. i loved those days. I learned alot about cooking and lo 3d when those ladies who I couldn't understand hardly a word of what what were saying most times. But they liked m3 be a I was polite, helped out alot and kept their kids out of trouble. Or so they thought lol. I would give a left testicle to have an all you can eat tamale and carne asada feast. I miss those days. My friends sorta hated me because their aunties and grandma's sort of liked me better some times. Theyd see me so well behaved in front of them and tell the I kids or grandkids why cant you be like him. So nice and respectful lol. One grandma found out it was my 8th birthday and gifted me a st micheal pendant and n3cklace from her own jewlery box. Turns outnit belonged to her late son who died in battle when he joined the mrines in vietnam. They sent it back with his stuff. I knew then when my friend told me about it. It was a beautiful 14 karat gold necklace and pendant.she handed to me said for you mijo. then gave me a hug and a kiss on the forehead. I asked my friend what's up bro? Why your grandma being so nice? He just patted me not back and sari I guess your family now If she's accepted you like that.some of the best people I've known were from sound the border. My freaking God father was mexican. My mom's best friend sinc3 childhood. He .ca out when he was 12 and his family kicked him out so my grandparents took him in unit he finished school and moved away to,Palm springs. He passed away in 96 from hiv. Mom cried her eyes out that day. so over half my life was around Hispanic folks.

"Everything was a No"😂😂😂😂

My mom just started a tamale vending business. I love tamales.

I didn't even know Bueno even made vegan tamales. Because where I live, you don't see Bueno's vegan tamales in stores, and it's usually only their pork tamales that you see.

These women had their mind made up even before they took the first bite, especially the woman who spit it out in her napkin.

I knew that canned Hormel Tamales were shite before i ever had a homemade tamale in Mexico! Now, in La Paz, BCS, MX I know where to find amazing tamales really cheap! Every night in front of the Arambro Supermercado after 8pm. Everything made from scratch, and the masa is bona fide!

I've lived next to the border in CA and TX and eaten real tamales in Mexico numerous times and in the states in restaurants run by Mexicans a lot. The best tamales I ever had in my life were made by my friend Lupe's mom and her aunts in Brownsville Texas at Lupe's house. I actually eat Hormel canned tamales, beef or chicken but don't even think of them as tamales. A chef friend of mine told me to cook them, chop them up and mix them with canned Spaghetti Os, the ones with no meatballs. I thought he was nuts or pranking me when he told me to try that but that combo with some cheese on top is actually weirdly tasty and has become one of my comfort foods but I don't even think of those canned tamales as tamales.

I think the mammas should try jellied eels from here in the uk and roll mops .The flavours are unique and there expressions alone would be amazing. Xochitl and Martha and lucy would be great together also doing a fun fair video but trying many many more dishes than the last 2 mommas tried 😊

OMG I love the woman in the shirt with the white collar. She keeps it real lol

Tamales are a holiday tradition in my family always homemade 😊

LOVE mamah and this channel!😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤

Man, I used to love those hormel tamales when I was a kid! In my defense, they probably tasted very different years ago, but what the hell did I know. 😂

When I was a kid, before I had ever even had a real tamale, I loved the canned Hormel tamales. We always got the beef kind. They are soooo bad for you though haha.

lucy is so full of it lol

This is what happens when American companies appropriate another cultures food

The Hormel Tamales are Mississippi Delta red hots.They are very comparable to their source. Skinny, wrapped in paper, uses corn meal instead of masa, simmered not steamed. Etc.

I remember Austex canned tamales ... I did not know what a real Tamale was till a few years later. I live in Texas My Tamale connection is a elementary school custodian that sells them out of coolers in her trunk

When I lived in Austin Texas I used to get them at the gas station. They let someone sell them there fresh daily. So good.

I wish this was a blind taste test😂

I love Trader Joes tamales and I am very picky about them

"Ay, güey" este "Damn, bruh?" 😂

These subtitles don't do these funny ladies justice haha.

The first tamale I ever had was one of those Hormel in the can ones. It has turned me off tamales and I haven't tried them again. It's been decades since I tried one

Take day after tamales and throw them on the comal till the leaves r toasted on both sides .. tha bomb !!

It's simple! If they're not homemade with love and care then they're "No Bueno!"

I never usually buy premade tamales, but I did recently at H-E-B in Texas. Surprisingly they were actually good. I recommend steaming them on a tray in a rice cooker or something else. Never microwave.

I love xlint with a fried egg on top

Need to trick all of them to a real One vs frozen ect…..

It just proves that different people have different tastes. To agree on some thing that is quintessential to Mexican culture probably isn’t ever gonna happen because the culture is so varied and each of the tasers are from very different areas of Mexico making tamales totally different ways as they do with all foods. That is what makes the foods so great.

No real Mexican mom would say it compares to homemade authentic Mexican tamales it's a treasure to the pallet this BS not even my dogs would eat it 😂😂😂

Yeah other fillings but never ground beef... you ladies are brave.

The older ones know what’s up lol.

Can we see them try different taiyaki flavors,steamed dessert buns, and try dorayaki

This is hilarious

No real food come in a can I'll bet these ladies make the best 😊

Lucy doesn’t know anything and it shows lol 😂😂

CANNED TAMALES THATS SICK!!!

When I was a kid my friends and I used to go camping and one of our favorite camp foods was hormel tamales. This was in the mid 1980s. Last month I bought a can of the Hormel chicken enchiladas to eat for old times sake and it tasted horrible! Nothing like the Hormel tamales from my childhood

People really be sleepinv on those canned tamales and canned menudo. It gets the job done when you ctaving some.

I eat the canned ones when I don't get to get fresh hot ones! My grandma made the best ever..!..She was from Zwolle, Louisiana! Tamales from Zwolle!! 🥹❤️‍🔥😋🤤

I love tamales. Used to work with a Mexican guy and we became fast friends because he'd always bring a bread sack full of tamales. His family owned a taco truck and man, they had excellent food.

Back in my dorm room in the '70's those canned Hormel tamales were a great meal for a broke college kid. I'm lucky to have great Mexican restaurants in my neighborhood so bad tamales are a thing of the past for me.

The canned hormel tamale is a Chicago style. It can be found in a “mother in law” that’s basically a tomal in a hotdog bun with some toppings