My sister recently married into a Central American family and my mother-in-law gave me a bunch of tamales, but I accidentally left them at my Dad’s place. I got them today and he admitted he ate one but said the “outer layer was really stringy and tough”.
Thing is I’m 90% sure I’ve had tamales with this man before.
I did the same thing when I went to work with my new step dad at a construction site and at lunch they got a bunch of tamales from a food truck. He gave me one and I had a hell of a time trying to chew through that corn husk until he noticed and the whole construction site erupted in laughter with finger pointing and all.