do you ever buy tamales off street vendors? is it safe?

[Pooua]

I have bought food a few times from a tamale lady who walks around my neighborhood. It's pretty good food, but at a dollar a tamale, too expensive for me. Then, there is the matter of sanitation, and I have to wonder about legality. The City forbids me to sell tomatoes (or any other produce) that I've grown in my back yard, because they won't inspect residential gardens for safety. I doubt they allow the tamale vendors to sell without a license, either. The new Cottage Food Laws don't cover them, either.

[Fontucky]

I'll eat anything (as long as it's stuff I like) cooked by anyone from anywhere, and that includes pot luck suppers, restaurants with B and C health department inspection placards, tamale trucks/carts, and the fobby ladies selling from the trunks of their cars at swap meets and open air markets. Maybe that's why I never get sick, I've built up resistance.

There used to be a guy selling tamales from his pickup, off Euclid Ave in Chino, CA. Tamale King. I miss those.

[Fontucky]

Originally Posted by mr bolo

I knew a guy that actually died from consuming contaminated meat that had worms in it and it got in his brain

That sounds like one of those "I knew a guy who knew a guy whose brother's girlfriend's neighbor's sister had a cousin who had a coworker who knew a guy that actually died from consuming contaminated meat that had worms in it and it got in his brain."