I'm Molly and I'm Matthew and this is Spilled Milk the show where we cook something delicious

eat it all and you can't have any are apparently in this case kick something delicious

because you said you were going to kick a boy oh my kick it question can I kick it

um I you can kick it thank you first of happy birthday to mom of the show Judy Amsterdam

this episode comes out on her birthday I won't say what birthday number it is happy birthday

we wouldn't be here without you that's true I mean some of us would let's be honest yeah but

we probably wouldn't be like here in the studio by yourself like talking to you waiting waiting for

you to sign on because you never existed right if I never existed would I be a ghost how this is

like one of those if a tree falls in the forest okay you know what I should say what today's

episode is oh that's a great idea so today we are talking about tamales yes we've been wanting to

do this for a long time but we knew we needed a guest and we knew we needed the right guest

and I think we found her we've got the right guest so more on that in a minute but before she

joins us we wanted to have mr. anemology come in and just start us right off with talking about

the origin of the word tamale okay so I found this interesting I don't know if I

anyone will find it as interesting as I did but let's give it a shot I saw that you wrote about it

in your journal I did yeah the word the word tamale begins in the no wattle language and if you're

wondering why I'm saying tamale rather than tamale we'll get to that in a minute no wattle is a

group of related languages currently spoken by about two million speakers in central Mexico and the

modern language group is descended from the language of the Aztecs and the word in no wattle is

tamale that's it's romanized as t-a-m-a-l-l-i okay then the word entered Spanish of course in the

era of Spanish conquest in the 16th century and in Spanish the singular was shortened to tamale with a

plural of tamales all right then the word came into English from Spanish and it's sort of hard

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