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Texas BBQ & Cuisine
If American cooking could be summed up as combining generous portions of
homegrown foods with foreign sensibilities and techniques, Texas spins this into
a cuisine that is uniquely its own. Highlights include Texas-style barbecue, au-
thentic Mexican fare, creative Tex-Mex dishes, down-home Southern comfort
food and Gulf Coast seafood.
Tastes Born in Texas
Corn Dogs
Cornbread-batter-dipped hot dogs on a stick were created in 1948 by Neil Fletcher for the State Fair of Texas;
Fletcher's still sells 'em there; now available with jalapeño cornbread too.
Shiner Bock
The state's favorite amber ale came to be when Kosmos Spoetzl brought Bavarian brewing to Shiner, Tx, in 1914.
Available countrywide, Shiner Bock is still brewed at Spoetzl Brewery.
Chicken-Fried Bacon
You may have heard of steak coated and deep-fried like chicken, but the taste (and heart-attack factor) was taken to
new heights when Sodolak's, near Bryan-College Station, started cooking bacon the same way in the early 1990s.
Dr Pepper
A pharmacist in a Waco drugstore-soda shop invented this aromatic cola in the 1880s. Taste the original sugarcane
formula at the first bottling plant, Dublin Dr Pepper.
