Germans always freak out when they see wide open space for the first time. He would have said the same thing had he gone to Afghanistan instead.
Only difference is they don't have this in Afghanistan.
"...a chili cookoff in Terlingua and a Lamblast in San Angelo.
It’s chicken fried steak in Quanah, calf fries in Big Spring, Tex-Mex in Midland and barbecue from Dalhart to Del Rio and El Paso to Fort Worth.
And then there’s steak.
Joe Allen’s in Abilene and the 50 Yard Line in Lubbock do with the ribeye what Picasso did with the paintbrush.
In Amarillo, the Big Texan offers a 72-ounce sirloin free to anyone who eats the monster before it eats him. An oilfield roughneck did it once, and we miss him.
In San Angelo, there’s a restored bawdy house called Miss Hattie’s, but the river city’s greater claim to fame is its steakhouses, surely the most and best of any town its size. Zentner’s Daughter didn’t invent the garlic-flavored KC sirloin but she perfected it."