This episode contains explicit language.

Tell me about the tamales, Rick.

You know, like, my mother was an amazing cook.

She knew that her mother had used a hog's head, a whole hog's head.

You basically cooked it until it was literally falling off the skull.

And then she made a geessor sauce with dried chilies,

on chopacilla, wahiyo, lots of garlic, lots of cumin,

and then chopped up all of the meat and then stewed that.

And that became the filling.

And that, I remember being just phenomenal.

I'm picturing a big metal pot,

like an orange-ish brown oily surface to the liquid.

Yes, yes.

Oh my god.

Our neighbor, who was one of my mom's best friends,

had this gigantic pressure cooker.

We had an electric stove, and it would basically sit on all four burners.

It was that big.

I have no idea what this woman used it for.

But that was the only thing we had big enough to fit a hog's head.

And it cooked for hours and hours, and the window steamed up.

My mother had such beautiful hands.

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