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The McRib Double Down.

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Just a NSFW shot of smoked pork shoulder from Meat Fight.

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Happy Texas Chicken Fried Steak, y’all. No, seriously. That’s what today is.

(Via City of Ate, which has a list of where to get awesome CFS)

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Do not underestimate the power of a Arbitrary National Food Holiday! Today is National Taco day, which —wait for it— is an excuse to eat tacos. Like, a lot of them.

Anyway, here are seven ridiculously great tacos in Dallas (like these beauts from La Banqueta). Who’s up for a taco crawl. Starting now.

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And so, a 1,325 pound-Frito Pie was created at the State Fair of Texas. Today is a good day: the humans at Frito-Lay, in their infinite wisdom, have built the World’s Largest Frito Pie. For real, it broke the Guinness Record.

(via City of Ate, photo from Frito-Lay Twitter)

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There’s only two days left until Fried Christmas (aka the State Fair of Texas aka Fried Beer Place). In honor, we’ve created a map—by the great Dan Zettwoch—that will lead you to the great State Fair fried goods this year.

(Full info on the food on City of Ate)

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Apparently, there’s a global bacon shortage approaching. Aside from the fact that we need to end our dependence on foreign bacon, we should try not to panic. Texas has a proper solution available:

We have an abundance of feral Texas hogs.

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All hail the street tacos of Dallas. This here is one of our favorite cheap eats: the steak tacos at La Banqueta at 4500 Bryan St. They also have good tongue. Tacos.

(via The Best Street Tacos in Dallas)

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Because it’s National Cheeseburger Day (why not, right?), here is SandBurg’s burger with chicken-fried bacon. You KNOW you want that.

Part of our 11 Off-The-Beaten Path cheeseburgers.

At the State Fair of Texas, on a crisp October morning, Frito Lay will attempt to build the World’s Largest Frito Pie. To set the record, Frito will have to build a finished product that weighs in at around 1,200 pounds.

Even better: finished product will yield more than 5,000 samples.

(via City of Ate)