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***** Texas Saturday Breakfast *****

YaHootie! It is Saturday breakfast time again! Since today is the Red River Shootout between Texas and Oklahoma, we will be serving State Fair Breakfast! Mind you, this is not "normal" breakfast fare and should probably be eaten for breakfast only once a year. And today is that day! We will start off with this year's Most Creative Award Winner - the Cotton Candy Taco! This bad boy is a graham cracker waffle cone lightly glazed with marshmallow cream stuffed with toasted, get this, chocolate marshmallows and topped off with a heaping helping of cotton candy and sprinkled with chocolate cookie crumbs! Can we have a big ol' Wahoo? Yessir! State Fair food at its finest there folks! In case you want to have a little savory before your sweet, we offer this year's Best Taste - Savory Runner-up Deep Fried Skillet Potato Melt In a Boat! This Mamba-Jamba is a deconstructed-reconstructed Spud on Crack! We take the inside of the potato and cube it up and griddle it to a golden brown, then we mix in cubed up breakfast sausage patties and pack all that around a mini Babybel® cheese loaf. This ball is then rolled in seasoned in flour and dipped in the fryer and fried up until golden brown. The ball is then placed in the potato skins they came from and topped with melted cheddar and crispy bacon bits. A sour cream chipotle sauce is drizzled across the top tto make for the Ultimate Spud Dish of the State Fare! Dang! That is some good stuff Texas! Want more, of course you do! Another awesome runner-up is the Deep-Fried Shepherd’s Pie. Butter, shredded cheddar cheese and cream is mixed into savory mashed potato and then scooped into balls. And generous heaping of shepherd’s pie filling, made of ground beef, mixed vegetables, and rich beef gravy, is place in the middle and sealed up, rolled in flour an deep fried until, wait for it, golden brown and delicious! Since this is breakfast, you can start your day with Deep Fried Froot Loops®! Yeowser! This one is sweetened Froot Loops® folded into whipped marshmallow, dipped in a creamy batter, fried to a golden brown, and then topped with a powdered sugar glaze. Hope you have a sweet tooth! Want to freak your tongue out with sweet AND savory? Check! We offer the Sweet Bakin’ Bacon - this sucker is a Twinkie® wrapped in savory bacon and then dipped in a funnel cake batter and fried to, yes, GB&D and dusted with powdered sugar to gild the lily. Need something savory to shake off the sugar? How about a Deep-Fried Lobster Pops? Yes, it is what you think it is - Lobster tail "corndog"! Want to freak your tongue again, who about Fried Kool-Aid® Pickles? Yep, cukes picked in Kool-Aid®, battered and fried up! If you want to enter the sugar breach one more time, check out the Deep-Fried M&M’s®! You just have to see it to believe it. In the immortal words of Kool-Aid Kid, Oh Yeah! Comfort food doesn't get much better than that. If you just must have a healthy alternative, we have fruit. <snicker, snicker> For the health conscious, we will be serving Deep Fried Peaches & Cream! We take Texas sweet, juicy peaches, coat them in a delicious batter of cinnamon, ginger, coconut and graham cracker crumbs, fry them up and serve them up with a big ol' ball of vanilla ice cream for dipping! And, in the new Texas tradition of having a return appearance, our favorite from last year returns - the Surfin’ Turfin’ Tator Boat! Yehaw, fire up the Tater Boat Cletus! This behemoth is half lobster and half steak, stuffed into a baked potato, topped with cheese, and then generously drizzled with melted butter, baby. Top all that off with a single empress cut lobster claw and a side of lemon butter in case you did not get enough on the first go around. Just take us now Sweet Jesus! We could go on with more offerings, but the NewTexas Surgeon General has informed us that all that is quite enough. No Juice Bar today - that is just too dingdangged healthy! However, in a first, we will be offering beer, ice, cold beer and not just any old beer, Lone Star beer, The National Beer of Texas! If Beer For Breakfast™ is not your thing, the Never Ending Urn of Coffee is full and ready to help you wash it all down. Texas coffee doesn't get much better. Enjoy Texas! You know you want to!®

***** Texas Chat Reminder *****

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Please register with your nation name. This is a great opportunity for nations old and new to Texas to find out what is going on! We chat, we debate, we talk about the weather, we talk about stuff we like, stuff we hate, random stuff and more stuff. But, it is never stuffy. Usually, it is about meeting your fellow Texans and talking about the latest and most interesting stuff in NationStates at the moment. But then again, sometimes NationStates does not even come up. It is wide-open chatting with peeps from around The World both IRL and NS. It is Texans, EuroTexans, WannabeTexans, ex-Texans, and plenty of Friends of Texans. We have it all and all are welcome. Texas Chat, 709 weeks and running! For the math-challenged, that is over 14 years! Check it out! Good stuff!