What would it mean if Texas is finally back, folks?
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Imagine sautéing potatoes in butter, then adding sausage, then packing them around some kind of “loaf” manufactured from semisoft cheese, then deep-frying the whole thing, then serving it in the skins of the very potatoes you just saturated, topped withWhat would it mean if Texas is finally back, folks?
Imagine sautéing potatoes in butter, then adding sausage, then packing them around some kind of “loaf” manufactured from semisoft cheese, then deep-frying the whole thing, then serving it in the skins of the very potatoes you just saturated, topped with more cheese, more bacon, and a sour-cream sauce intended to ensure cardiac arrest. This is apparently one of the featured cuisines at this week’s Texas State Fair, which culminates in the Texas-Oklahoma football game at the adjacent Cotton Bowl, presuming you survive to see it.In a deeply divided America, the state fair’s food is both a Lipitor endorsement and a paean to our nation’s shared fealty for defiant excess, which is exactly the spirit ESPN broadcaster Joe Tessitore embraced in 2016, when—after Texas outlasted Notre Dame, 50-47, in a pair of overtimes—declared that, “Texas is back, folks.”Tessitore, of course, in attempting to infuse artificial drama into a game played the first week of the season, could not have been more over-the-top wrong. Texas we Read more