Dr. Gourmet's Food Reviews

While it's best and healthiest to prepare your own meals from scratch, at Dr. Gourmet we realize that sometimes you just can't make it into the kitchen to cook. With over 1,000 convenience meals reviewed and counting, Dr. Gourmet is the largest source of unbiased frozen food reviews online.

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This week's review: Tucson Tamale

Just two weeks ago we reviewed our first tamales from Alpha Foods.

Spoiler: that was a mistake.

At $5.79 apiece, not only were they pricy, but they weren't gluten-free. In terms of flavor, the first was disappointing from the standpoint of filling-to-masa ratio, but then the second's "chik'n" had the grainy texture of cheap sausage and an oddly metallic aftertaste.

Today's tamales are from Tucson Tamale, a family-owned business that grew out of one of the owners' Mexican-American family tradition of getting together on the weekend to make tamales. Read this week's review »