GeoRock
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Location: Mammoth Lakes, CA
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UMMM fresh tamales at my post office!
Ha! Caught your attention?
Yesterday I pulled into the Mammoth Lakes post office parking lot. I had the Mexican Hat Dance playing through the radio.
David K's and Baja Bernie's stickers, amidst others, adorn the back of my vehicle.
I was wearing a shirt from Acapulco, which stated such in loud letters.
A Hispanic guy smiles at me, I smile back without thinking anything of it. Mammoth is a friendly town, and he looked familiar.
After picking up my bills and not the expected tax return (darn!), I go back outside. This time the gentleman approaches me.
"Hola." ... Are you interested in buying tamales? (I'd write that in Spanish but I can't.)
It's about 25 degrees out, and less with the wind chill factor. I glance past him at the snow covered ground, and for an instant, am transported to a
hot sunny Mexico.
"Soy vegetariana," I say in my terrible Spanish.
He understands and replies, "queso."
My heart beat speeds up. I'm thinking this is too good to be true!
I buy a dozen jalapeno and cheese tamales for a measly price of $13 USD. An incredible bargain so far from the border!
They are hot and steamy. I was gonna treat myself to Taco Bell in Bishop, 45 minutes south. But who cares about the dog when you can eat a hot tasty
tamale?
(I know Taco Bell is not a treat to most of you. But when you live in a small town and the only fast food is McD's, KFried, and CJr's, you get real
sick of their fare. And you get tired of the restaurants that have the same menu's since the 70's.)
It was a gift from the Mayan God I tell my daughter as we drive south, munching on one of the best tamales I've ever eaten in my very young lifetime.
Now, this may seem like not much of a big deal to you flatlanders in southern Cali, but to us mountain folk it was a pure, unadulterated pleasure.
I can tell you I will be visiting my post office with a whole new attitude....bills don't matter as much as watching for those homemade tamales! OLE!
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Bajagypsy
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If everytime I went to my mail box and got offered tamales, I to would not mind paying the bills!
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Lindalou
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Oh boy, oh boy, we haven't had a really good tamale since the beach of Santispac, when the tamale lady would come around every 3 or 4 days. Rich
would get a dozen of these warm wonderful things and we would cover them in our green salsa and eat them for breakfast! Yum-O!
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Iflyfish
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There is a Mexican Goddess and she smiled on you amigo!
Your great Mexican vibes channeled Tomales! Good one.
Spiritual man, spiritual!
Iflyfishwhennotlookingforhumminbirdstotalkwith
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vgabndo
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Jeez Rock, you make me real happy with our little town of 4500 mountain folks. We have so many good Mexican restaurants that we can afford to by-pass
the crummy one.
My favorite is still our classic Jewish taco shop. "Pancho and Lefkowitz (a local joint)" Tacos, burritos, and kosher hot dogs all served out of the
same roadside trailer. Oye Lay!
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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Paulina
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What a special treat!
\"Well behaved women rarely make history.\" Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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marla
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So Georock, let's see a picture of your grandbaby!
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a
speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. Henry David
Thoreau
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BajaVida
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just had my first Camelita's tamales last week
they were sure tasty
No se apure y dure.
Don\'t hurry and you\'ll last longer.
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaVida
they were sure tasty |
How about some photos from you or bajarunner?
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BirdDog
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Wow man. work at the p.o. in Iowa and no ever has made me hot tamales. Would a nice treat. I guess some good things do happen at the post office.
Although not many.
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BirdDog
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Obviously typing is not required to work here.
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Cypress
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Homemade tamales are a special treat!
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thebajarunner
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no fotos of Carmelita, sorry
| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaVida
they were sure tasty |
How about some photos from you or bajarunner? |
Whilst they were milling about in the parking lot chomping the tamales I was trying to get a decent foto of an osprey that was circling above, then
nesting across the street.
No success, thus no fotos of the tamale place either.
What was interesting.... there were about four small dogs hanging around outside, and as 11 guys munced on very sloppy tamales, the dogs were
scurrying underfoot, picking up the pieces that dropped.
Sloppy tamales= chunky dogs...
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