Texas strawberry
n.— «Bill Beckley, Betty Harford and Virginia Hawkins, a threesome of actors from the nighttime TV soap opera “Dynasty,” brought piles of English sausage rolls and buckets of “Texas strawberries,” or red beans prepared Abilene-style.» —“Fund-Raiser Had Animal Magnetism” by David Nelson Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 1988. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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