Why do people love Texas Toast ?

[fastfredracing]

Garlic and cheese, whats not to love

[ckelly78z]

I can do with, or without the cheese, but garlic is a food group for me !

[masraum]

Nah, I don't really like Texas Toast.

I like regular thickness toast. The Texas toast screws up the soft/crunchy and maillard ratio of the toast.

[javadog]

I hate Texas toast. And I don’t think I’ve ever had it with either garlic or cheese on it, not that that would improve it.

There was only one restaurant that knew how to cook good, tasty, cheesy garlic bread and they no longer exist.

[GH85Carrera]

I have never understood toast of any sort. Whey take a nice soft piece of bread and dry it out to to make it dry and crumbly? Yea, if it is soaked in garlic butter it does not get as crumbly, but it still is messy to eat.

I saw a Richard Hammond special where he was going through a food line at a Army base in the USA. He pointed to some French Toast, but he called it Eggy Toast. The British don't like to acknowledge the French in any way, so French Toast becomes Eggy toast and French Fries are just Chips.

And do NOT toast my bread for a sandwich. I prefer un-toasted fresh soft bread.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by ckelly78z

I can do with, or without the cheese, but garlic is a food group for me !

On that related note, you'd love Spain, at least the part that I've been to (southwest corner, Andalucia, in the Cadiz/Jerez area). It seemed like garlic was in everything.

And here in the US when you go to the store to buy garlic, most folks will go to the bin and grab a bulb. In pretty much every store I've ever been to in the US, the garlic bin is similar to...


I don't think you can even buy a single bulb in Spain.

This is how they sell it there. When I went to a grocery store, an entire corner of the store was full of different size braids of garlic. I swear some of them must have had 40-50 bulbs per braid.

It seems like every restaurant you went to, they would bring out a small plate of olives in olive oil with minced garlic.

[legion]

All bread and no meat.

[aschen]

I call it texas toast when I tear the center out of the bread and cook an egg in it for the kiddos.

Bread saturated in butter and garlic is garlic bread

I may have questionable Texas street cred

[masraum]

Originally Posted by javadog

I hate Texas toast. And I don’t think I’ve ever had it with either garlic or cheese on it, not that that would improve it.

There was only one restaurant that knew how to cook good, tasty, cheesy garlic bread and they no longer exist.

Wow. Just out of curiosity, what do you think Texas Toast is? In my mind, it's just thick cut toast. It's loaf bread that's cut 2-3 times thicker than regular grocery store sliced bread.

[URY914]

Maine has lobsters
Maryland has crab cakes
Georgia has peaches
Ohio has buckeyes
Virginia has ham

And all big bad ass Texas can come up with is cooked bread?

That is some real gourmets right there.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I have never understood toast of any sort. Whey take a nice soft piece of bread and dry it out to to make it dry and crumbly? Yea, if it is soaked in garlic butter it does not get as crumbly, but it still is messy to eat.

I saw a Richard Hammond special where he was going through a food line at a Army base in the USA. He pointed to some French Toast, but he called it Eggy Toast. The British don't like to acknowledge the French in any way, so French Toast becomes Eggy toast and French Fries are just Chips.

And do NOT toast my bread for a sandwich. I prefer un-toasted fresh soft bread.

Interesting. Properly toasted bread will have some maillard reaction which does alter (dare I say "enhance") the flavor of the toast. Of course, the crust is maillard, but it's not the same.

[masraum]

https://www.brandeating.com/2008/06/homemade-texas-toast.html

Texas Toast is basically buttered thick-sliced toast made in a pan or grill. According to Wikipedia, Texas Toast was first served at the Pig Stand (a now defunct fast food chain) on Calder Avenue in Beaumont, Texas in the 1940s. As the story has it, Royce Hailey, Pig Stand president, requested that the bread from the Rainbo bakery be sliced thicker, but the bread was too thick for the toaster, so a cook buttered both sides of the bread and placed it on the griddle, toasting it medium brown.

[javadog]

Originally Posted by masraum

Wow. Just out of curiosity, what do you think Texas Toast is? In my mind, it's just thick cut toast. It's loaf bread that's cut 2-3 times thicker than regular grocery store sliced bread.

It’s crap American bread, cut thicker than normal and toasted.

I don’t know how you took my post to be anything other than that. As I said, I’ve never seen Texas toast with either garlic or cheese on it.

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I have never understood toast of any sort. Whey take a nice soft piece of bread and dry it out to to make it dry and crumbly?

Toast does make it easier to indulge in caviar.

[javadog]

Originally Posted by URY914

Maine has lobsters
Maryland has crab cakes
Georgia has peaches
Ohio has buckeyes
Virginia has ham

And all big bad ass Texas can come up with is cooked bread?

That is some real gourmets right there.

Ohio has buckeyes? Got any good buckeye recipes?

Texas has some fairly decent steaks and the peculiar version of Mexican food called Tex Mex. Tasty, if done right.

Some would give them barbecue but that’s better in the Carolinas.

[javadog]

Originally Posted by masraum

https://www.brandeating.com/2008/06/homemade-texas-toast.html

And that right there is why it sucks.

[URY914]

Originally Posted by javadog

Ohio has buckeyes? Got any good buckeye recipes?

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/9909/buckeyes-i/

[craigster59]

I like Sizzler's toast and I loved chipped beef on toast in the Army (S.O.S.).

For good garlic bread look no further than The Smokehouse restaurant across the street from Warner Brothers in Burbank.

[javadog]

Originally Posted by URY914

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/9909/buckeyes-i/

There are no buckeyes in that recipe. I don’t think you can eat a buckeye.

[Sooner or later]

You can remove the shell, roast them, and they are not harmful.

I had a buckeye tree on my property in East Texas.