Dennis of the Menace, 10/10/24

Not to brag, but I've eaten some tamales in my day, ranging from pretty good to great. For those not "in the know," a tamale is made up corn meal, often stuffed with cheese or meat or the like, steamed inside a corn husk, and while it's almost always served inside the husk, you have to unpeel it to get to the actual delicious tamale. I usually eat one with a fork, but you can partially unpeel the husk and eat it by hand, sort of like a banana, or you can just bite right into the husk like Gerald Ford did, which would be gross and unpleasant and will make you look stupid. If you completely take it out of the husk and try to hold it in your hand like Joey and Dennis are doing here, it will just crumble apart, so I ... assume they're doing the "bite through the husk" thing? Because it doesn't look like they're peeling back the husk? And Joey doesn't have the vocabulary to describe the bad mouth sensation that's resulting, so he's just calling it "hot," in the way that some languages only have three color words and call anything that's not black or white "red"? I dunno, I'm just spitballing here. What the heck are they actually holding, do you think? Are they churros? Do the Dennis the Menace artists not know the difference between tamales and churros?

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