Awesome!

My parents made tamales every holiday season. We'd have them for Christmas, along with beans and green chile and other nummies. Christmas eve had me at my aunt and uncle's for some homemade mexican food, and they sent me back with a gallon ziploc full of tamales. Yum!
Plus, when you make them yourself you can fill them with meat. Too often, when you buy them they just have little token of meat, making them more like a masa cake with an obligatory spoon-full of filling.