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Post by DanBintheUnderworld on May 3, 2017 13:57:34 GMT -5
Question for those with knowledge of living down in the southern states: if you were in a BBQ joint in Mississippi or Alabama, and they had Tamales on the menu, would the Tamales all automatically have meat in them? Or could you order them with, like, cheese and vegetarian chilli in them? Attendant question, how easy (or not) is it to find vegetarian food in restaurants in the south? Asked a friend from Virginia, but who has been all over the South. As to tamales, they're time consuming to make and are done in big batches. So if they aren't on the menu in non-veggie form you're not likely to get them. And they're pretty much just a thing in Mississippi and Louisiana and parts of Alabama. Then there's the Mexican tamales which are a thing in the southwest and west. As to vegetarian food, you should be fine if you're in a bigger city. In the hinterlands you may have a harder time. However, it is pretty traditional in the South to have two or even three vegetables with meals. So you may be able to get sides of veggies. Though it's also possible they may have been cooked with meat or with animal fat. To the point that there's a popular class of eateries known as "meat & threes," varieties of which I & a co-worker eat in every workday. Just got back from such a place, where my veggie sides were collard greens (probably cooked with pork of some sort) & broccoli & cheese casserole. My co-worker had speckled butterbeans (possibly with pork content) & fried green tomatoes. The dish wasn't on the menu today, but their creamed corn is some of the best I've ever had.
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Post by DanBintheUnderworld on May 3, 2017 13:50:27 GMT -5
Not to be confused with
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Post by DanBintheUnderworld on May 3, 2017 13:43:08 GMT -5
Added it, as I intended to before I had to leave for lunch. Still need to find a larger version, though.
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Post by DanBintheUnderworld on May 3, 2017 12:17:49 GMT -5
Question for those with knowledge of living down in the southern states: if you were in a BBQ joint in Mississippi or Alabama, and they had Tamales on the menu, would the Tamales all automatically have meat in them? Or could you order them with, like, cheese and vegetarian chilli in them? Attendant question, how easy (or not) is it to find vegetarian food in restaurants in the south? Asked a friend from Virginia, but who has been all over the South. As to tamales, they're time consuming to make and are done in big batches. So if they aren't on the menu in non-veggie form you're not likely to get them. And they're pretty much just a thing in Mississippi and Louisiana and parts of Alabama. Then there's the Mexican tamales which are a thing in the southwest and west. As to vegetarian food, you should be fine if you're in a bigger city. In the hinterlands you may have a harder time. However, it is pretty traditional in the South to have two or even three vegetables with meals. So you may be able to get sides of veggies. Though it's also possible they may have been cooked with meat or with animal fat. And also parts of Arkansas, I gather mostly over by the Mississippi Delta (I'm from the opposite lower corner of the state, where such things aren't really known, though looking back I think the bbq-&-smoked-meats place in the county seat offered tamales when I was a teenager). As communicated to Confessor elsewhere, I highly doubt any nonmeat tamales would be available from such outlets or for that matter from most Mexican places down here, which is a shame, because my own preferred taco is the green corn variety, which contains only cheese. Even the international market here doesn't carry what I'm looking for in its otherwise amply supplied frozen food section ... or, rather, the green corn tamales it has are sweet (they're apparently a traditional holiday treat), which most certainly is not what I'm after.
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