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Originally Posted by ardecila
Eh, the mother in law is more a product of Chicago's white ethnic culture, and the Tom Tom tamales that go in it are very unlike Mexican tamales. It's likely that black migrants from the Mississippi Delta actually brought tamales to Chicago before any Mexicans ever arrived here. White-ethnic hot-dog stand owners then adapted the Mississippi recipe for the relatively blander Polish/Irish/Greek palate.
Good luck finding a mother-in-law sold by any actual Latino-owned business.
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tamales have been a thing in st louis for many decades, white ethnic-ish butcher shops carry them, etc. i dont know anything about the “great migration route for the tomales theory” but makes sense.