Bryan Green

Still got it.

After all these years through the tears.

Well, the big holiday season is right around the corner, Chrissy, and you know what that means.

I gotta figure out a way to get my kids gifts.

Listen, there's like

There's this season, the holiday season is right around the corner.

But for those of you that don't live in a Venezuelan household, it's also known as Ayaka season.

Ayakas.

This is a hot topic around this household.

A hot topic around this household.

Because I have known Venezuelans for 30 years of my life, and I have been familiar with the traditional holiday dish known as an ayaca, which is essentially like the Frankenstein cousin of a tamale.

Wrapped in a banana leaf.

And listen, we can focus on the good things about ayakas.

Let's focus on the good things for a second.

One of these days I'm going to wake up and there's going to be gaitas playing in the house.

Gaitas is like traditional Venezuelan Christmas music.

It's going to be gaitas playing in the house.

And I'm going to walk into the kitchen to find a huge card table opened up in the middle of the kitchen, everything else cleared out, banana leaves all over the place.

And then Astrid and whatever other Venezuelan happens to be within a 30-mile radius are going to be in my kitchen making an absolute mess, putting whatever edible items are left in the refrigerator, freezer, or pantry into this ayaka.

Don't call it a tamale.