The Tamale

Madman liked the Carne Guisada tacos! WOOHOO! Yet another convert.
Okay here is where I try to explain what a tamale is.

Tamale. Pronounced tah-mah-ley. Kinda.
A tamale is about 6 inches long and about 1-1/2 inches wide....depending on who is cooking them. They have a cornmeal type of outer covering and the inside is filled with a wide variety of things but typically they are filled with spicy shredded pork or beef or chicken. They are wrapped snuggly in a corn husk. Actually...the corn husk is what holds the whole thing together until they are cooked. When they are eaten, you lovingly unroll them from their corn husk and rabidly devour them. I do not know how exactly they are cooked or what the masa (cornmeal stuff) is made out of. I am conspicuously absent everytime my aunt decides to cook a batch and then I magically appear shortly after they are finished. That was probably the worst description ever. The Saturnyne had a much more colorful tale. Albeit, incorrect. Anyone else want to elaborate?