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Texas Toast

How Did Texas Become The Only State With Its Own Toast?

By Ben Philpott, KUT • May 9, 2019
Jorge Sanhueza-Lyon / KUT

What’s the first food item that jumps into your head when you think of Texas? BBQ? Queso? Breakfast tacos?

All reasonable choices. But you’d be missing the obvious, a food item that bears the name of the state: Texas toast.

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