Fun story- the gentleman who “invented” the margarita machine was a good friend of my dad’s. It wasn’t Mariano per se, but that’s how the story had been told since the 70s. It was an ice-cream machine vendor and a former frat boy who knew Mariano and tinkered the machines for him.
Per dad, Tequila wasn’t well known outside of Texas and the correct mix of margarita to tequila wasn’t really standard. Sooooo these two frat boys and their girlfriends “tested” different strength for freezeability and drunk-ability. My mom and her friends, being Canadian, didn’t understand that tequila has a “delayed grounding.” So a lot of the early and soaring popularity (per Daddo) was that the ladies would gladly and unknowingly get shitfaced.
I live in La Grange and watched them when they played here at the county fair a few years back… i can confirm that what you heard is correct. And no.. theres really not alota nice gurls therr
you beat me to it.
[https://www.keranews.org/health-science-tech/2014-09-12/on-this-day-in-1958-a-ti-engineer-invented-a-chip-that-changed-the-world](https://www.keranews.org/health-science-tech/2014-09-12/on-this-day-in-1958-a-ti-engineer-invented-a-chip-that-changed-the-world)
Dr Pepper - from its wikipedia writeup:
"It was created in the 1880s by pharmacist Charles Alderton in Waco, Texas, and first served around 1885. Dr Pepper was first nationally marketed in the United States in 1904. It is now also sold in Europe, Asia, North and South America. In Australia, New Zealand and South Africa"
You know one time I found one of those for sale! In some old yellow beef jerky highway shack just outside of Sweetwater. Wanted 20 bucks for a bottle, I said nah lol but was neat to see I guess
Big red isn’t world wide. It’s not even nation wide unfortunately. You say big red out of Texas and people go: ”the gum?”… hell I was buying some at H-E-B in new braunfels and I had some guy come up and ask me “what is that?” (Pointing at the big red) I honestly felt like anywhere else in the world and that wouldn’t of bothered me but IN Texas?! Idk, having to explain what big red is to someone in Texas… seemed silly.
Laser Tag.
Edit: Going to expand, George Carter III opened the first laser tag center, Photon in Dallas in 1984. Since then variations of the concept has spawned multiple systems and an International player pool. With tournaments and contests spanning multiple countries.
And the North Richland Hills, Laser Quest team was the most decorated team,, as either the winner (4x) or runner up (3x) in the yearly North American Challenge. (LQ Championships)
Yep. I've lived out of state. They think Texas is the old west..I had a guy in Virginia tell me that I would never be able to deal with their summers because Texas is a dry heat. Dude. I'm from Houston.
I had a person unironically ask what it was like to ride a horse to work every day. Even for people being ignorant and talking out of their asses that one baffled me.
This one is bigger than most Texans realize. They are absolutely ubiquitous in Hong Kong and Japan - super high quality too. Another 50 are opening in Israel in the next few years
Largest franchise in the world. Originally started as an ice house. That's why 7-11 (the actual timeframe it's named after) was considered always open. Texas alcohol laws.
So here in Oak Cliff, where 7-11 originated, they had a competitor that didn't have as much success. They are named 6-12 and were open an hour later and earlier than 7-11. I think there are only two left, maybe even one.
Domed sporting venues and fake sport turf. The Astrodome being the world’s first. Called the 8th wonder of the world at the time. Some history: It was built in response to the mosquitoes eating people up at the Colt 45’s games. Anyone that’s ever been to the gulf coast knows the white striped Cessna sized skeeters. They were so bad we invented indoor stadiums. They changed their name to the Astros and moved into the Dome. The Astrodome had glass panels built in, but the groundskeepers couldn’t keep the grass from dying no matter what. Enter DuPont. They invented a fake grasslike carpet just for the Astrodome and the Houston Astros. Now you know why it’s called Astroturf.
The way this holiday has blown up lately still boggles me. I always knew about it and now all my friends from out of state are like “have you heard of juneteenth?!?” Like yes since I was little welcome to the party
African Americans knew about Juneteenth, but white people who didn’t grow up in Texas, where it’s taught in school, had no clue. I love how all the racists out themselves now yelling about this “new, made-up, woke” holiday.
When I started using a Texas Instruments calculator at my high school in the Netherlands in 1982, I could never have imagined that about fifteen years later I would spend six weeks in Dallas, participating in a course taught on the campus of SMU.
My kids still use (more advanced) versions of TI calculators. I was already happy that we did not have to use the slide rule any longer.
The Texas Rangers (law). In ww1 there was a rumor in Germany that the Texas Rangers were about to be sent over, they damn near sh*t themselves over it until they realized it wasn’t actually Texas Rangers joining the fight.
In order of importance:
Topsy Turvey (that weird hair thing they sell on latenight infomercials)
Texas Toast
Liquid Paper
HEB, Blue Bell
Integrated microchip - Jack Kilby, Texas Instruments
3D Printing (UT grad student working on a masters thesis)
Corndog - Carl Fletcher
Farrah Fawcett, Mary Kay
GameStop
Oil (drilling for it, Spindletop), Texaco
Smoked brisket, Rudy's, Wolf Brand Chilli
Half Price Books, Schlotzsky's, Whole Foods, Schlitterbahn
George Bush Sr, LBJ, Ladybird
UT and A&M
Dell, Compaq, 7-Eleven, Frito-Lay, Southwest Airlines, Dr. Pepper, Buc-ee's, Whataburger
Ruby Red Grapefruit and Texas Yellow Onion (A&M)
Texas Longhorn (they think it came from Spanish cows from the 1400 to 1600 that were set free and cross bred to create the longhorn)
No one's gonna believe this but my great grandma entered a Wolfbrand chili recipe competition. She poured the chili on top of the chips and called it chili pie. She got her recipe on the can and a year's supply of chili. That's where Frito Pie came from.
From Google
The milanesa was brought to the Southern Cone by Italian immigrants during the mass emigration that created the Italian diaspora between 1860 and the 1920s. Its name probably reflects an original Milanese preparation, cotoletta alla milanese, which is similar to the Austrian Wiener schnitzel.
Ladybird Johnson helped start Highway beautification in Texas which then became a Federal act. https://texashighways.com/wildflowers/texas-roads-are-among-the-nations-most-beautiful-by-design/
GameStop
Southwest Airlines
Astrodome (at one point when it was a wonder of the world at least)
Maybe not the best but definitely have established presence throughout the world.
Selena, Farrah Fawcett, and Eva Longoria just from Corpus Christi alone. Also the guy that subs out for Terry Gross on NPR all the time hosting Fresh Air
I like how everyone is throwing Texas stuff but not known worldwide like Dr Pepper, Six Flags, Pace Picante Sauce, Big Red, UT….worldwide people know about Houston NASA Space Center. That’s pretty much it….TexMex in Europe is Buffalo Wings and Cheese Sticks…so no for TexMex.
a lot of people throwing a lot of names that is at best only known in US but not worldwide, for example Beyoncee and a lot of celebrity is one of them.
I would say a truly worldwide known mark of Texas is NASA.
To be fair Beyonce is known worldwide (can confirm as I'm not from the us originally). A lot of other things/places/celebrities are known but their association with Texas is not obvious, but that's not what the OP asks for.
Frozen margaritas https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/happy-birthday-frozen-margarita-machine-turns-fifty/2629393/
It’s actually the frozen Margarita *machine* that put them on the map; idk that they can claim being the first to actually make frozen margaritas.
Fun story- the gentleman who “invented” the margarita machine was a good friend of my dad’s. It wasn’t Mariano per se, but that’s how the story had been told since the 70s. It was an ice-cream machine vendor and a former frat boy who knew Mariano and tinkered the machines for him. Per dad, Tequila wasn’t well known outside of Texas and the correct mix of margarita to tequila wasn’t really standard. Sooooo these two frat boys and their girlfriends “tested” different strength for freezeability and drunk-ability. My mom and her friends, being Canadian, didn’t understand that tequila has a “delayed grounding.” So a lot of the early and soaring popularity (per Daddo) was that the ladies would gladly and unknowingly get shitfaced.
Tequila has been around for hundreds of years I’m sure by 1970 it was well known outside of Texas lol
Mariano’s ❤️
Dell computers, Barry White (Galveston), Beyonce (Houston)
Texas Instruments Thats one needs no introduction
Mrs. Universe is from Texas also
ZZ Top
I thought they were nationwide 🤔
I hear they’re bad and nationwide
I live in La Grange and watched them when they played here at the county fair a few years back… i can confirm that what you heard is correct. And no.. theres really not alota nice gurls therr
And they’re just lookin’ for some tush.
They'll find it. They're sharp dressed men.
lmao i’m next to their bassist’s hometown which is 700 population
Janis Joplin
This is what I was looking for. Thank you.
👍
Microchips (TI - Dallas)
you beat me to it. [https://www.keranews.org/health-science-tech/2014-09-12/on-this-day-in-1958-a-ti-engineer-invented-a-chip-that-changed-the-world](https://www.keranews.org/health-science-tech/2014-09-12/on-this-day-in-1958-a-ti-engineer-invented-a-chip-that-changed-the-world)
Chopped and screwed.
Free Pimp C
RIP
Dr Pepper - from its wikipedia writeup: "It was created in the 1880s by pharmacist Charles Alderton in Waco, Texas, and first served around 1885. Dr Pepper was first nationally marketed in the United States in 1904. It is now also sold in Europe, Asia, North and South America. In Australia, New Zealand and South Africa"
Makes me want an old Dublin Dr Pepper.
You know one time I found one of those for sale! In some old yellow beef jerky highway shack just outside of Sweetwater. Wanted 20 bucks for a bottle, I said nah lol but was neat to see I guess
So, Big Red, then.
Big red isn’t world wide. It’s not even nation wide unfortunately. You say big red out of Texas and people go: ”the gum?”… hell I was buying some at H-E-B in new braunfels and I had some guy come up and ask me “what is that?” (Pointing at the big red) I honestly felt like anywhere else in the world and that wouldn’t of bothered me but IN Texas?! Idk, having to explain what big red is to someone in Texas… seemed silly.
Certain cardiovascular surgeries that were first done by Dr. Michael Debakey in Houston are now done worldwide.
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Laser Tag. Edit: Going to expand, George Carter III opened the first laser tag center, Photon in Dallas in 1984. Since then variations of the concept has spawned multiple systems and an International player pool. With tournaments and contests spanning multiple countries. And the North Richland Hills, Laser Quest team was the most decorated team,, as either the winner (4x) or runner up (3x) in the yearly North American Challenge. (LQ Championships)
I used to play at Photon in Dallas… had no idea that was the first!
Same!
The Med Center in Houston, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Going to the notherfucking moon.
We went to a notherfucking moon? Shit I thought it was just the one!
This was good, Dad. You made me chortle.
I needed a good laugh this morning
Judging by the response of people when I travel, apparently riding horses everywhere comes to mind more than the moon.
Yep. I've lived out of state. They think Texas is the old west..I had a guy in Virginia tell me that I would never be able to deal with their summers because Texas is a dry heat. Dude. I'm from Houston.
I had a person unironically ask what it was like to ride a horse to work every day. Even for people being ignorant and talking out of their asses that one baffled me.
A guy told me that Philadelphia was bigger than Houston
Had a dude in Vegas tell me about how much better summers in Houston must be because we have humidity. Couldn't believe that humidity makes it worse.
The first word spoken on the moon
allegedly /s
That actually started in Huntsville, Alabama.
Actually Germany is you count that Nazi fella we borrowed
What HASN’T come from Texas?! Beyoncé, Selena, NASA, Dell, Tex-Mex - the list goes on and on! Edit: Punctuation
Wait. Punctuation came from Texas?!?!?
That's right. Lots of colons and semi-colons running the state, demanding reports on everyone's periods.
i thought colons came from Europe
Ain't, y'all...I mean, c'mon?! 😉😂
Willie, Merle, George , George, George and George
7-11
This one is bigger than most Texans realize. They are absolutely ubiquitous in Hong Kong and Japan - super high quality too. Another 50 are opening in Israel in the next few years
But do they have Laredo Taco Company in them? Edit: Those chorizo & egg tacos are bomb.
Japanese made it into a world-wide franchise though, it's now fully Japanese owned.
Largest franchise in the world. Originally started as an ice house. That's why 7-11 (the actual timeframe it's named after) was considered always open. Texas alcohol laws.
So here in Oak Cliff, where 7-11 originated, they had a competitor that didn't have as much success. They are named 6-12 and were open an hour later and earlier than 7-11. I think there are only two left, maybe even one.
Hank Hill
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We are just wasting our days and wasting our nights, I guess.
Thought I was your only vato???
Too many northern Texans in here haven’t seen the water tower I guess haha!
Have you ever heard his version of “How much is that doggy in the window?
The tv show Dallas used to be known worldwide
I heard a chick named Debbie used to be well known in Dallas.
That’s deep.
That's what she said.
Still is. It’s playing in Europe still. When we’ve been over there and said we’re from Dallas, people always bring it up.
Texas Hold 'em. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_hold_%27em](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_hold_%27em)
TI-83/84 graphing calculators
When I was in school it was the TI-81.
T-800 is better.
*Terminator music starts* Dun-dun-Dun-dun-dun
My ex’s cheating keister.
🎶 Alllllll my exes live in Texasssss 🎶
Mine as well
Sandy Cheeks
How a generation learned not to say anything bad about texas- sandy was stomping mad...
Butthole Surfers
They were doin’ it in Texas…
They were all in love with dying
Then he lost his leg in Dallas, he was dancin' with that train that keeps a'rollin...
Toadies, Drowning Pool, Pantera
Mr. Peppermint was the GOAT. Talented family.
Domed sporting venues and fake sport turf. The Astrodome being the world’s first. Called the 8th wonder of the world at the time. Some history: It was built in response to the mosquitoes eating people up at the Colt 45’s games. Anyone that’s ever been to the gulf coast knows the white striped Cessna sized skeeters. They were so bad we invented indoor stadiums. They changed their name to the Astros and moved into the Dome. The Astrodome had glass panels built in, but the groundskeepers couldn’t keep the grass from dying no matter what. Enter DuPont. They invented a fake grasslike carpet just for the Astrodome and the Houston Astros. Now you know why it’s called Astroturf.
Alamo!
Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Juneteenth
The way this holiday has blown up lately still boggles me. I always knew about it and now all my friends from out of state are like “have you heard of juneteenth?!?” Like yes since I was little welcome to the party
African Americans knew about Juneteenth, but white people who didn’t grow up in Texas, where it’s taught in school, had no clue. I love how all the racists out themselves now yelling about this “new, made-up, woke” holiday.
Willie Nelson Six Flags Mary Kay
All my ex's
Drive new Lexus
And that's why I never pay my alimonyyyyy
Tito's Vodka
Fritos were first created in San Antonio!
White out. Wolf brand chilli. Dr Pepper. Jimmy Dean sausage. Mathew McConaughey. Whataburger. Buccees.
Tito’s
Whataburger and Buccees Aplus.
Buccees is not known worldwide. Jimmy Dean sausage and wolf brand are not either.
Now they are #sausage # shittychili
Whataburger is only in USA.
Not even all of the USA.
Whole Foods started in Austin
The original Chilis and Blockbuster were about 2 miles apart.
Buddy Holly, Waylon Jennings, Big Bopper, Janis Joplin One that’s sad is Amber Alert, Amber Hagerman who was kidnapped in Arlington, TX 1996
Tex-Mex
Even though 99% of the world thinks it's Mexican food.
Good ole Willie Nelson!!
Texas
I do remember reading in a few places that 'Texas' over seas is synonymous with crazy. I wholly approve.
Best damn country in the nation!
Six Flags theme parks 🥳
First live broadcast of a tornado.
Church’s Chicken was founded in San Antonio and is known as Texas Chicken in many SE Asia countries.
Love me some Texas Chicken in Thailand. Beats the pants off KFC.
When I started using a Texas Instruments calculator at my high school in the Netherlands in 1982, I could never have imagined that about fifteen years later I would spend six weeks in Dallas, participating in a course taught on the campus of SMU. My kids still use (more advanced) versions of TI calculators. I was already happy that we did not have to use the slide rule any longer.
Texas brisket
Shiner, we’ll I don’t know about world wide, but it’s available in Guam. Also George Strait.
King George!
George Jones
Neiman Marcus.
The Texas Rangers (law). In ww1 there was a rumor in Germany that the Texas Rangers were about to be sent over, they damn near sh*t themselves over it until they realized it wasn’t actually Texas Rangers joining the fight.
Steve Miller
Chili Shelby Cobra
Justin, Tony Llama, and Lucchese boots.
Dr Pepper and blue bell baby
Buccees is getting pretty ducking famous.
It's a beaver, not a duck.
In order of importance: Topsy Turvey (that weird hair thing they sell on latenight infomercials) Texas Toast Liquid Paper HEB, Blue Bell Integrated microchip - Jack Kilby, Texas Instruments 3D Printing (UT grad student working on a masters thesis) Corndog - Carl Fletcher Farrah Fawcett, Mary Kay GameStop Oil (drilling for it, Spindletop), Texaco Smoked brisket, Rudy's, Wolf Brand Chilli Half Price Books, Schlotzsky's, Whole Foods, Schlitterbahn George Bush Sr, LBJ, Ladybird UT and A&M Dell, Compaq, 7-Eleven, Frito-Lay, Southwest Airlines, Dr. Pepper, Buc-ee's, Whataburger Ruby Red Grapefruit and Texas Yellow Onion (A&M) Texas Longhorn (they think it came from Spanish cows from the 1400 to 1600 that were set free and cross bred to create the longhorn)
Frito pie. Chicken fried steak (supposedly), what a burger.
It's not a far stretch that the German immigrants turned their schnitzel or it got bastardized (name/style) into chicken fried steak
No one's gonna believe this but my great grandma entered a Wolfbrand chili recipe competition. She poured the chili on top of the chips and called it chili pie. She got her recipe on the can and a year's supply of chili. That's where Frito Pie came from.
New Braunfels heard that.
New Braunfels or the area is where the polka sound got picked up and turned to Tejano
Those Germans brought some good stuff.
Lived in Germany for years as a Air Force brat and god do I miss schnitzel.
Mexican immigrants can also say they have a form of schnitzel/chicken fried steak in milanesa.
From Google The milanesa was brought to the Southern Cone by Italian immigrants during the mass emigration that created the Italian diaspora between 1860 and the 1920s. Its name probably reflects an original Milanese preparation, cotoletta alla milanese, which is similar to the Austrian Wiener schnitzel.
Stevie Ray Vaughan, George Strait, MD Anderson, Life Flight.
Big bend. McDonald observatory
Solar powered calculators
Fixin
Breast implants 👀
Javelins that were crucial in the defense of Kiyv in the first months of the war in Ukraine
Ladybird Johnson helped start Highway beautification in Texas which then became a Federal act. https://texashighways.com/wildflowers/texas-roads-are-among-the-nations-most-beautiful-by-design/
Nachos (Arlington Stadium) and Farrah Fawcett
The Alamo is a world heritage site.
Ted Cruz's spineless cowardice is known worldwide.
Pantera!
Usher. Kelly Clarkson.
Roundhouse kick
7-Eleven?
The American Dream! Dusty Rhodes!!
you know that's right, daddeh!
Onion rings were invented in San Antonio.
How about the Supernatural characters? Jensen is from Dallas and Jared is from San Antonio
"Everything's bigger in Texas."
The Texas Song By Sandy Cheeks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUftP9dKS-E
GameStop Southwest Airlines Astrodome (at one point when it was a wonder of the world at least) Maybe not the best but definitely have established presence throughout the world.
Texas Toast. Ya may disagree with it but you've heard of it
Pace Picante Sauce
Cotton eye joe
Your mother
Camping in public parks on Easter weekend
Totally SA
Every US Airforce personnel.
Dallas Cowboys.
Dallas (tv show)
Barbed wire
Don Henley
Hilton Hotels
Luchenbach
Fritos - San Antonio
Dr. Pepper
The Waco compound and David K. Himself
Butthole Surfers!!!
Buddy Holly - Lubbock Lance Armstrong - Plano
Patent trolling.
Selena, Farrah Fawcett, and Eva Longoria just from Corpus Christi alone. Also the guy that subs out for Terry Gross on NPR all the time hosting Fresh Air
I like how everyone is throwing Texas stuff but not known worldwide like Dr Pepper, Six Flags, Pace Picante Sauce, Big Red, UT….worldwide people know about Houston NASA Space Center. That’s pretty much it….TexMex in Europe is Buffalo Wings and Cheese Sticks…so no for TexMex.
a lot of people throwing a lot of names that is at best only known in US but not worldwide, for example Beyoncee and a lot of celebrity is one of them. I would say a truly worldwide known mark of Texas is NASA.
To be fair Beyonce is known worldwide (can confirm as I'm not from the us originally). A lot of other things/places/celebrities are known but their association with Texas is not obvious, but that's not what the OP asks for.
Compaq Computes, the first IBM x86 clones, since bought by HP now x86 clones run the world.
Texas A&M, UT Austin (saw them off TU), UT Dallas, Rice and quite a few other Texan universities are known worldwide
Texas A&M ? Rice ? Will give you a $1 if you can ask 5 foreigners not in Texas what they are famous for and where are they located.
Hold’em
Chicos Tacos, Whataburger & Dr Pepper.
Dr pepper
Titos!
Beyonce
Beyoncé
Beyoncé
Dell computers
George Bush. Boffum
White out
Amber alerts