TAMALE THURSDAYS IN FORT STOCKTON

Every Thursday a store in Fort Stockton sells tamales. “We start cooking our tamales at one o’clock in the morning,” says JB Gallegos, owner of The Comanche Tortilla and Tamale Factory. “I come in, put them in the steamer and at seven o’clock they’re ready to go. Our steamer cooks 14 trays of 6 dozen apiece, so if you do your math, that’s a lot of tamales that go out of here in the course of a…