(upbeat Latin music)
- We put out a poll on Facebook
asking the Pero Like audience
if they like the tamales de dulce or not.
According to the poll, only 30% of our audience
likes tamales de dulce.
The other 70%, not so much.
I'm gonna ask my Latino coworkers what they think.
I'm gonna have them taste tamales de fresa
and tamales de pina
and hopefully we can start a conversation
about tamales de dulce.
Why do people love them?
Why do people hate them?
Let's see what happens.
- I love tamales.
- I love love love tamales, but I'm Salvadorian,
so our tamales are super different than Mexican tamales.
- There are some tamales de dulce that are not great,
but the ones that are done well, I think are very good.
- I only know tamales to be savory.
I never thought it to be sweet, ever.
- Whenever I used to make tamales with my grandma,
I made sure that there was a special batch just for me.
- Tamales de dulce.
Ew, that sounds nasty 'cause I be putting ketchup
on my tamales and my pasteles.
(upbeat music)
(buzzer sounding)
- No.
(buzzer sounding)
- I like it.
(ding)
That's my honest opinion.
It's light and fluffy and sweet.
- Honestly disappointed that I'm not eating any meat.
(buzzer sounding)
- I like this a lot.
(ding)
I like them 'cause I feel like they remind me
of a lot of my favorite Salvadorian pastries like Budin,
so I think if you go in expecting a regular tamale,
I can see why you would be like, (gasps).
- Yeah, I don't know about that.
(buzzer sounding)
- Mmm.
Mhmm.
(ding)
I love this.
This one has a little bit of citrus flavor to it,
which is kind of nice, it's a nice little ding
at the end after each bite.
No complaints here.
This is fantastic.
(ding)
- There's nothing wrong with these at all.
They're so good.
- Mhmm.
(ding)
You taste the sweetness of the corn accented by the pina.
- It's not bad.
(ding)
I don't even like pineapples.
- I'm not mad at this one.
(ding)
- I like it,
(ding)
but not as much as tamales de fresa.
- Oh I don't know about that.
(buzzer sounding)
Oh, that's a bee!
That's a bee!
Take the pina!
Take it!
You didn't listen, you like sweet?
Not even the bee wants it.
- They're at home and they're like.
- What?
I don't get it, 70% of you don't like it?
Even Beyonce has haters, so.
- These get a bad rap.
They're good.
It's these things.
It's these things ruining it.
- I see why they hate it.
- The idea of it being sweet or fruity just,
it just seems unnatural to me.
- I'm with the 70%, I'm with the masses.
I be knowing what the people like.
I understand stuff like that.
I would never have thought of putting pina in a tamale.
But then again, we're Latinos
and Latinos just invent shit, okay,
so I understand that.
We smart, we get it.
We be understanding stuff.
We think outside the box.
- Guess what?
If you don't like tamales de dulce,
that means I get more tamales de dulce
and I don't have to fight more people for it.
So it's okay, I'll just keep these all to myself.
30 percenters, more tamales for us.
(upbeat music)
- Get your!
What the hell!
That's disgusting!