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Just don't plant one right in the Zocalo, or you might attract angry citizens, passing out tomales in protest, in case anyone missed that story:
A Microcosmic Look at the Salutary Nature of Competition 2005
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With each stop, vendors clamored around the bus, offering a wide assortment of fare: tacos, tomales, plastic bags of brightly colored juice tied at the top around a straw.
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With each stop, vendors clamored around the bus, offering a wide assortment of fare: tacos, tomales, plastic bags of brightly colored juice tied at the top around a straw.
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Hot tomales were a queer commodity for a street-seller to deal in; Dan didn't know exactly what they were, but he believed them to be some sort of Spanish or Mexican concoction ----
The Fifth Ace Douglas Grant
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José, as a vender of tomales, established himself near the garage where I kept my car, hoping to attract the attention of my chauffeur, Dan Morrissey here, who had helped me all through that trying time and whom José knew he could trust.
The Fifth Ace Douglas Grant
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We saw her making _tomales_, composed of bruised green corn, -- crushed by the process just described, -- mixed with chopped meat, and seasoned with
Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California Caroline C. Leighton
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On the window ledge stood a platter of tomales and a pile of oranges.
Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California Geraldine Bonner 1900
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They had already prepared on shore a meal of pinole, bread from their corn, and tomales of the same.
The March of Portola and the Discovery of the Bay of San Francisco Eusebius J. Molera 1880
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I was rather hoping that the new nanny who is from Australia and hotter than tomales would be joining us.
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I tasted some local tomales (corn mash with chicken and a mild salsa wrapped in corn leaves) at the bus station in Belize city.
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