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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 2143040" data-attributes="member: 2205">Cool.  J'you go to school there?  I have two degrees from TAMU, but I also grew up in the area and my entire pre-college education is a product of the Bryan Independent School District -- my dad was on the faculty until after I moved to Michigan five years ago.A word of warning; the Deathburger is the one with a ton of jalapeños and tabasco sauce on it; if you're not a fan of spicy-ish food, go for the Snuffy burger (I believe it's called) which burger fans tell me is really good, and is the more traditional one.[sigh]  Man, do I miss the food in Texas.  Freebird's burritos is the first place I'd stop if I were to drive back to College Station tomorrow.  My freakin' in-laws can wait until I get my fix!  There also used to be this greasy little steakhouse out in Snook, about half an hour to the west of town that was in what was obviously a former Dairy Queen, where you'd get massive steaks for dirt cheap.  We once ordered the Chicken Fried Bacon as an appetizer; and I'm not talking strips of bacon; this was whole slabs of pork battered and deep fat fried and served with white sauce.  Even I could feel my arteries closing up after eating that.  I understand that the place burned down in a grease fire shortly after I moved, but I think it's also been rebuilt.  There's also another restaurant run by the divorced other half of that owner in Sommerville another half hour further to the west that served pretty much the same food too.  Then there's this BBQ place in Huntsville; and by BBQ place I mean this trailer that pulls up in the parking lot of a black Baptist church, and a old couple that cooks meat like it's going out of style in a big honkin' smoker in the front of the trailer.  For $7 you can get all you can eat brisquet, links and ribs.  My friends and I have literally hurt ourselves there before by eating too much and soaking in too much grease out of the very air.</blockquote>

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