This is just a little something from something I am writing, some of you might recognize it if you’ve ever read this part of Students of the Universe.
“I see,” Holly pushed her bistre tendrils out of her face.
The coke and toast were delivered and the moment the waitress was gone Lewis bit a chunk out of the bread and drank a huge hurried set of gulps. “You really ought to try this,” he said through a full mouth.
“It’s garlic bread. I’ve had garlic bread.”
“Nope, Texas Toast,” Lewis shook his head.
“I’m quite capable of reading the menu,” she sighed. “Don’t you find it the least bit odd that this state seems obsessed with including its name in front of foods that already existed? No one else does that sort of thing.”
Lewis took another drink from his soda. “What about: Turkish Coffee, Rocky Mountain Oysters, French Fries and English Muffins—,“ he rambled the list out as if he had prepared it.
“But most of those were—I mean one of them’s just a euphemism—bugger, never mind,” Holly sat in silence and finished her tea as he ate and drank.
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