Texas Toast

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_Texas toast._  Toast that is cut about one inch in thickness, so called because of the popular mythology that everything in Texas is bigger than anywhere else.  It may be spread with a cheese topping and baked in the oven.
--John Mariani's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN FOOD & DRINK

PEPPERIDGE FARM
NEW!
   Texas Toast
Mozzarella & Monterey Jack
REAL CHEESE!
READY IN 5 MINUTES!
--box sitting next to NYC lexicographer.

   Even the Food Emporium has its "Texas Style Garlic Bread."
   "Texas Toast" could be like "Mississippi Mud"--a food fad brought on by a nice combination of letters.  I doubt if those DARE surveys turned up many "Texas toast" responses in the 1960s.  If so, I wouldn't expect a much earlier dating.
   An internet check shows that "Texas Toast" was an early offering by Sizzler--a "steakhouse" restaurant chain that began in California in 1958.  Sizzler does not have a web site to verify this.  Any thoughts?
   Verdict on the P.F. T.T.--two OK signs out of four.