These tamales are great! You can really taste the Texas!!!

In a release from the office of Governor Rick Perry... The U.S. Department of Commerce has named Texas the top exporting state in the nation for the seventh year in a row based on 2008 export data. I, being a native Texan, take great pride in this, even though I have in no way, shape or form personally made any sort of contribution toward this "achievement". It also warms my heart to know that the good people of Mexico, Canada, China, the Netherlands and Brazil (our top five export recipients) will not have to go without when it comes to necessities such as Lone Star-drinking armadillo carcasses, giant belt buckles, jalapeno jelly, Texas-shaped cutting boards, all manner of tooled-leather goods and, of course, the aforementioned mail-order tamales.