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Texas Street Food
5 dishes in United States
5 street foods from Texas, United States: Breakfast Taco, Central Texas Smoked Brisket, San Antonio Chili con Carne, Puffy Taco and Texas Kolache. Each one has its own page with the story behind it and what to look for.
Street foods of Texas
Taco Trailer · Breakfast Taco
Breakfast Taco
In 2016 an Austin food site claimed the breakfast taco for Austin, setting off a public feud with San Antonio, where taco lovers and local officials…
A warm flour tortilla is folded around scrambled eggs with a choice of bacon, chorizo, potatoes, or refried beans and a hit of salsa. Taquerias and gas-station stands across central Texas…
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Meat Market · Smoked Beef Brisket
Central Texas Smoked Brisket
The style grew out of German and Czech meat markets that smoked leftover cuts to keep them from spoiling, and some old markets, like Kreuz Market in…
Beef brisket is rubbed with just salt and pepper and smoked low over post oak for 12 hours or more until it develops a black bark and a smoke ring. Meat markets and trailer pits sell it by…
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Plaza Stand · Chili con Carne
San Antonio Chili con Carne
In the late 1800s, Mexican-American women called the 'Chili Queens' set up nightly chili stands in San Antonio's plazas, making Military Plaza one…
A thick, no-bean stew of chopped or ground beef simmered in dried chile pepper sauce is ladled into bowls, sometimes over crackers or tamales. It's sold today from food trucks and diners…
Taco Stand · Fried Puffy Taco
Puffy Taco
San Antonio's minor-league baseball team has a giant puffy taco as its mascot, Henry the Puffy Taco.
Fresh masa dough is deep-fried to order, puffing into a crisp, air-pocketed shell that's folded around ground beef or chicken, lettuce, tomato, and cheese while still hot. It's a San…
Bakery Counter · Czech Pastry
Texas Kolache
The savory sausage-and-cheese version Texans call a kolache is technically a klobasnek, a Texas-Czech invention, but most shops still sell it under…
Soft yeasted dough is wrapped around a link of sausage, sometimes with cheese and jalapeño, or filled with sweet fruit or cream cheese, then baked until golden. Small-town bakeries along…
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