I don’t really have a question but I want to talk about noodles, please. Is a tamale a noodle or a sandwich?

    • Bizzle@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      28
      ·
      1 year ago

      I understand the cube rule, I just don’t think I can really subscribe to it. Calling a bowl of lucky charms nachos is inaccurate, it’s clearly a soup.

    • MrsEaves@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      Didn’t know I could be more upset about this argument but this rule really takes the cake sandwich. Though for this specific instance, I agree it’s a calzone.

    • j4k3@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      1 year ago

      Does this mean I can get thin crust tamales in New York, and grease death tamales in Chicago

      • ohmyiv@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        1 year ago

        In L.A., there’s everything from grease death and masa bombs to thin crust and dry. Husk wrapped or banana leaf wrapped. Savory or sweet. We got it all.

    • SoupOfTheDay@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      1 year ago

      Isn’t the whole point of “toast” that it’s bread that is toasted? How can sushi, an undeniable raw food be “toast”? I’ll accept the cube rule, but toast needs a new classification.,

          • ohmyiv@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            1 year ago

            It’s not necessarily about the actual toasting. It’s about how ingredients are layered. So, toast and butter is the same as rice and fish. That’s how a Big Mac can be a cake.

            The whole cube rule is just ragebait. And it works well lol

      • ViperB5@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        Technically, ravioli is a stuffed pasta the same as tortellini. That would make it a noodle but I don’t believe the same can be said for tamales. Pasta (Italian noodles) is made from a dough of semolina flour, olive oil, and eggs that is rolled into sheets or extruded into shapes. It is then cooked by boiling in water.

        I don’t think the dough(?) of a tamale is anywhere near the same.

        • boothin@kbin.social
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          What the dough is made out of isn’t relevant to it being a noodle or not though, unless you think rice noodles aren’t noodles because they aren’t made of semolina, eggs, and oil and aren’t typically cooked by boiling but rather by soaking in hot water?

        • zeppo@lemmy.worldOP
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, tamale dough is masa (nixtamalized corn) while ravioli is typically wheat flour, as you describe. Noodles can be made out of corn or rice, too… they’re not really that different than wheat noodles. I have Celiac so I have tried a lot of gluten free noodles made from alternative grains.

      • sab@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        Italians would lynch you for mixing linguini and spaghetti, but they don’t pause for a second when referring to dumplings as Chinese ravioli.

  • quortez@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    1 year ago

    This type of food taxonomy is always fascinating and disturbing, as it tends to spawn even more unhinged classifications (ravioli is a dumpling. A bowl of cereal is a salad).

    That being said, the most politically neutral take would be that tamales are a pie.

  • WisteriaCat@lemmy.fmhy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    1 year ago

    Neither! A tamale is corn masa with typically a meat filling. You could consider it a dumpling or a pie. Noodles do not have a stuffing and sandwiches tend to have a distinct layers. I would consider a taco or maybe a gordita a sandwich, but not a tamale. Although this does make me wonder, what would a burrito be classified as? (not counting wrap because that is too easy)

    • ohmyiv@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      That rule is all kinds of disturbing lol

      Turduckens should be sushi or calzone, not salad.

    • neuropean@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      It got hot dogs wrong, they only have two sides so they wouldn’t be considered a taco.

      • BrerChicken @lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        If hot dogs only had two sides then you couldn’t set them down on the bun the way you do. And in New England it’s not even close–the buns up here leave no doubt.

  • jclinares@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    1 year ago

    As a Mexican, I am very disturbed by this question. It’s not stupid (that doesn’t exist in this community), it’s just disturbing xD

    No, a tamale is not a noodle. Noodles don’t have fillings, are longer, and thinner. It’s like asking if ravioli is a noodle.

    • 1024_Kibibytes@kbin.social
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      1 year ago

      As someone from the U.S. who grew up eating Mexican food in Texas, I agree. It is disturbing. The filling is very important to a tamal. They aren’t bendy or thin either. Noodles are thin and bendy

      • zeppo@lemmy.worldOP
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        i am new mexico af and i respect your carne guisada, but really. NM food kills it. Please come over to Santa Fe and check out green chile Carne Adovada. “Texas” lol

  • riley@lemmy.fmhy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    No. The point of noodles is that they hold their form without any help when you cook them. Without their leafy containers, tamales would be more like polenta/corn meal mush–also yummy but not noodly.
    https://prnt.sc/4atIxUL1D90X R-amen.