The Tamale
Meet a tiny, ink-drawn skeleton hunched over a plate, enthusiastically devouring a meal in this charming book page. Created by José Guadalupe Posada, the master of the Mexican *calavera*, this illustration accompanies a witty poem about the national dish, the tamale. The text plays a clever linguistic game, joking that if a tamale isn't cooked right, it's not a tamale at all, but if you eat a bad one, *you* end up feeling 'mal' (sick). It’s a delightful slice of early 20th-century Mexican folk humor that turns a simple meal into a pun.
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