hot tamale

When I feel the cramp starting, I quickly chew one Hot Tamale and often it is enough.

“For example, ‘You make me feel like a hot tamale,’ or, ‘I love your kisses,’ then they get to eat the chocolate Kiss.”

Murphy — dubbed the “queen of scream” for her passionate responses and cries of “hot tamale” when judging the majority of the show’s 17 seasons — was joined by Boss on the judge’s table in 2018.

Writing her own material served as a corrective to her lived experience of playing what she refers to as the “hot tamale” parts: Anita in “West Side Story” or Bianca in “Kiss Me, Kate.”

An early 20th century Chicago Daily Tribune article claimed there were more than a "hundred hot tamale men" in the city, slinging their wares from street corners and saloons until the wee hours of the morning.