La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for February 21, 2015

Tamales! From! The! FUTUUUUUUUUUUURE!!! (Any time’s a good time for tamales.)

Tamales rule.

McD’s tamales would probably “come back” on me. Is that a thing from the past?

McDonald’s really isn’t what I think of for futuristic food. Besides, “Food from the past” usually means “the food you loved when you were a kid” and have again on holidays.

Mexican weather report:Chili today, Hot tamale!

Maybe they’re week old tamales.

I’ve good memories of tamales and my friends. Also menudo, chile y frijoles, cerveza…

Dang. Now I’ve got to make a trip to El Burrito Mercado, and it’s way across town.

That was an infortunate ad campaign of McDonald´s in Mexico, to say the least. Plain dumb, considering how much tamales are part of our culture. I don´t think much of it anyway, nor feel compeled to go burn down a McDonald´s restaurant, but in the social networks as usual people tend to be too sensitive and to outrage for nothing.This is a good article about this same issue in Texas Monthly Magazine, where I first heard of it.

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Oops! Again.

http://www.texasmonthly.com/daily-post/mcdonalds-thinks-tamales-are-thing-past-mcburritos-are-where-its

I hate to admit I don’t know what a tamale is, but now I want one.