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About Me

Canned tamales are an American delicacy, first produced by the Austex Chile Factory in Austin, Texas in 1911. Castleberry's bought out the company several years ago and still produces Austex brand tamales, although in some areas they are distributed under the Castleberry's label.
Other early brands included Gebhardt's (a pioneer of early mass-produced tex-mex foods), Derby,and Rutherford's HyPower.
Through the years, canned tamales were also distributed by Armour, Wilson's, Libby's, Wolf Brand, and VanCamp's. Unfortunately these companies no longer produce tamales.
Today, Hormel is the best-selling brand of canned tamale.
Other popular current brands include: Ellis, Casa Fiesta, El Rio, La Preferida, Bryan, Paramount, and Nalley. Derby still sells tamales in the traditional glass jars!
Canned tamales are celebrated by many Americans as being a cheap, quick way to enjoy tex-mex in the home, while abhorred by others who consider them an unacceptable imitation of a 5000 year old Mexican dish.
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My Interests

I contain:
water, beef, tomatoes, corn meal, corn flour, masa harina, salt, chili powder, modified food starch, paprika, and spices.

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please remove my paper wrappers before eating.

I'm filled with tasty "beef".

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other foods and people who love canned tamales.

My Blog

One Year on MySpace !!!

Wow, the time really goes by fast! One year ago I started this page because I wanted to add a can of Tamales to my own MySpace Friends list but none existed yet. This has been a fun side page and I ha...
Posted by Tamales on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:35:00 PST

Product Locator!

If you're hungry for canned tamales but not sure where to go, use these links to find stores that sell tamales in your area.Hormel = http://www.hormel.com/productlocator.aspDerby = http://www.con...
Posted by Tamales on Sun, 27 May 2007 06:05:00 PST

1000 Friends !!!

Tamales gained it's 1000th friend today, Bell Pepper, 4 months and 5 days after this MySpace opened. I have tried to make this *the* definitive source of info about canned tamales online. T...
Posted by Tamales on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:23:00 PST

My First Two Weeks

I started this MySpace page two weeks ago (June 7) when I was looking for a "Canned Tamales" to add to my own MySpace friends list and found that none existed. In two weeks, Tamales has accumulated ...
Posted by Tamales on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:41:00 PST