Texas Toast

[Lynne Murphy]

While in Texas, I never saw cheese on Texas toast--but it did always seem
to be grilled rather than toasted.

Lynne

--On Thursday, February 8, 2001 3:15 am +0000 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> _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.



M Lynne Murphy
Lecturer in Linguistics
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
University of Sussex
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