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Tamale vs Pupusa - What's the difference?

tamale | pupusa |

As nouns the difference between tamale and pupusa

is that tamale is mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients (e.g. chopped beef, pork, sweet filling) then steamed in corn husks while pupusa is a thick, hand-rolled maize tortilla.

tamale

English

(tamale)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Mexican dish of cornmeal dough shell filled with various ingredients (e.g. chopped beef, pork, sweet filling) then steamed in corn husks.

    • Usage notes

    The Standard Spanish singular is tamal, and thus some proscribe tamale' as an incorrect back-formation, preferring to use tamal as the English singular; note however that '''' exists in Spanish dialect [which?]. The similarity of '''tamale''' to the ancestral Nahuatl tamalli is not generally cited in support of the English usage of ' tamale .

    Synonyms

    * (l) * (l)

    Derived terms

    * hot tamale

    Related terms

    * tamalera

    Anagrams

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    pupusa

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thick, hand-rolled maize tortilla

    • See also

    * (wikipedia "pupusa") ----