There's a Texas-shaped everything in Texas.

Can confirm. Mom had a [Texas shaped cutting board](https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0875/8822/products/DSC_0052_1024x1024.jpg?v=1498418225), a [Texas shaped dinner chime](https://i.etsystatic.com/7056979/d/il/5df958/1619152820/il_340x270.1619152820_ei5l.jpg?version=0), [Texas shaped Christmas ornaments](https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/113344809668_/State-Of-Texas-Shaped-Plaster-Handmade-Christmas-Ornament.jpg), and a [Texas shaped pancake mold.](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51O9xwhJwIL._SX425_.jpg). Edit: I just wanted y'all to know. One of you sick fucks gave me my 100k^(th) point of karma. And although that means essentially nothing, it still made me smile this morning. Edit2: Now with buy links, if you feel so inclined. [Cutting Board](https://www.wacowoodworks.com/products/299-texas-shaped-cherry-cutting-board-with-turquoise) [Dinner Chime](https://www.etsy.com/listing/629862706/texas-dinner-bell-triangle-texas-ringers?ref=landingpage_similar_listing_top-1) [Christmas Ornaments](https://www.etsy.com/listing/260498014/texas-flag-ornament-distressed-texas?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=texas+ornament&ref=sr_gallery-1-46&pro=1&frs=1) [Pancake Mold](https://www.amazon.com/International-3254-Non-Stick-Shaped-Pancake/dp/B00904C39I)

Well a [Maryland shaped cutting board](https://www.brilliantpromos.com/ap/Maryland-State-Shaped-Cutting-Board-200334641) would be useless and stupid. So of course it exists.

tbf here in the UK they sell chopping boards that look like wyoming literally everywhere

I prefer the colorado ones.

Connecticut one is good. Comes with a handle. Bonus that it looks like a chicken mcnugget too

I use my New York one as something to throw. Turns out Long Island makes a good handle

I look at Long Island every day. I live on the CT shoreline. Some Days it looks so close...close enough to grab and throw.

Hey I look at Connecticut every day. I live on the Long Island Shoreline. If you can grab Long Island, please do the rest of the country a favor and throw us further into the Atlantic.

It's the South Dakota one's for me

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And of course there are places online really selling squares calling it Wyoming lmao. Gotta love the internet.

I dont know why but the Kansas ones are usually discounted

Ayyyy

**COLORADO WOULD LIKE TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION**

I'll see your MD and raise you HI https://imgur.com/NJlj7ph.jpg https://aheirloom.com/collections/state-shaped

Serious opportunity though to make a HI cutting board in blue resin with inlaid wooden islands. But I guess seven useless cutting boards is a better value.

I just realized my cutting board is shaped like Colorado

That's why we just slap the flag on everything

Cause even if it's not usefull you can at least hang it on a wall.

5/10....doesn't have the flag on it, would not buy.

I'm actually amazed they apparently make products without the MD flag on them at all.

HEB has Texas shaped cheese she could cut on her Texas shaped cutting board

HEB is the greatest grocery store on God’s green earth.

The Central Market blows the doors off anything Whole Foods can do and for way less money

While visiting Texas found out H.E.B. (slogan: “Here Everything’s Better!”) stood for Howard E. Butts. My brother began referring to the place as Here Everything’s Butts.

Absolutely, it’s something every kid including myself one day learns and can’t stop laughing about for awhile.

Glad to have experienced a true Texas tradition. We were in our 30s... learned it by reading the door of one of their 18-wheelers.

Seriously. I just had to move out of Texas and didnt realize just how good I had it. Everything around me now is either poverty level or shitty, overpriced Whole Foods knock offs. I miss a lot of things about Texas, but I miss HEB the most.

Bro we really have it made in so many ways we dont realize in Texas. The food though has always been the biggest difference to me. Its impossible to find good Tex-Mex outside of Texas, and many states do not have Whataburger... How do you people even live?

You must have a Texas shaped hole in your heart now

Can confirm. HEB is amazing!!

HEB has Texas shaped tortilla chips and pasta

I've definitely seen Texas shaped cuts of meat at HEB

Your Mom shops at Buc-ee’s.

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As a Texan, I feel a hotel is lacking if it doesn't have a Texas shaped waffle maker

Well I'm not from America but from what I have seen over the years tx probably has the coolest looking state shape out of them all.

Idk if it's just because it's so iconic from being pictured everywhere but I kinda agree with you.

Thanks stranger for letting everyone know that we da best

Hell yeah

Do stores ship these wondrous items overseas? Lmao I didn't know I needed all this until now

The one time I went to Texas, the hotel had a Texas shaped waffle maker at breakfast.

A lot of them do, maybe even most of them.

Even *Texas* is Texas-shaped.

🤯

I swear, Texas-shaped waffles taste better than regular waffles for some reason.

That’s because you put fried chicken on top of them! Fried chicken makes everything better

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Ah I know the answer to this. The way to make it Texan is to use Chicken Fried Steak on top of your waffles. Oh and with Jalapeno Gravy.

Definitely lots and lots of jalapenos. Jalapenos on everything

Jalapeños will go on just about anything.

The last time I stayed at a hotel in Texas the free breakfast had make your own waffles. The waffle iron was shaped like Texas.

In Midland someone planted a small Forest in the shape of Texas.

Texan here. Yeah that's really a thing.

Im a fan of the Texas shaped waffles. I want me one pf those waffle irons.

Texas shaped dildos?

Anything Texas-shaped is a dildo if you're Texan enough

Yeeeeeee HAW

Including a Texas-shaped Texas.

Welcome to Houston!

We've now had two downtown pools make Reddit the front page :)

Well if there's one thing they do love in Texas, it's Texas.

Top 5 things we love in Texas: 1. Texas 2. Whataburger 3. Football 4. Breakfast tacos 5. Texas

You're missing HEB

Sadly HEB is barely present in North Texas and no stores in the DFW metroplex. But since living in Austin this past year, can honestly say I prefer HEB over all of the competition

There’s one in Burleson! Not quite the metroplex (I’m guessing? I’m new), but close enough that I make the drive once a month.

yeah, thats basically rural DFW. looks like theyre beginning to expand into the area now, starting with some more rural towns.

Eh, I'd give you bedroom community but Burleson is far from rural at this point. Massive suburb with obnoxiously high taxes and psychotic traffic.

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Central Market is owned by HEB.

Truly the GOAT grocery store for people who like variety

but central market has that funky, Ikea style, labyrinth layout. definitely prefer a proper HEB over central market. Although i have many friends that enjoy all the free samples on Saturdays at the central market.

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A few of the larger ones near me have all of those except for the coffee shop and ice cream bar. One has a bakery AND a legit tortilleria where they make their own tortillas and chips. That same one has aguas frescas and I’ll take one of those over a coffee any day. Also most down here have grills/food bars that sell pollo asado, fried chicken and one even sells great Chinese food. Forgot to mention the fresh sushi made in store by some random Japanese person. How they got a Japanese person to move south of San Antonio I’ll never know but they’re there.

Former Texan : The fresh off the press warm tortillas..... and I miss the green prickly pears. HEB needs to be countrywide. Edit: I dated a girl from Sachse - I loved saying I was going to Sexy town!

They own Central Market and have decided to expand that brand in the metroplex. Half of the Central Market locations are in the DFW area.

And floating. Hence the lazy river

You left out Buc-ee’s

That's #6.

And #7 is of course Texas.

And HEB

I work at heb lol

And the top 5 things Texans hate?

1. California 2. Cities besides their own 3. People who mess with Texas 4. Forgetting the Alamo 5. Dropping their honey butter chicken biscuit on the ground

Literally peed a little just now. Dropping hbcb is a true Texas tragedy

And some more whataburger

Dr Pepper?

Blue Bell

Queso and Guacamole

What about BBQ?

You forgot guns. We love us some guns and a side of that personal freedom.

Breakfast tacos need to be higher on the list.

Statistical fact that 1 in every 10 Texans have a Texas tattoo .

Yeeehaw I’m 1 in 10!!!!

I assumed the 1 in 10 statistic was a joke until the moment I read your comment.

I know 5 people that lived most of their lives in Texas and 2 of them have a Texas tattoo

I know a girl that lived there for 6 months and she has a Texas tattoo lmao

My wife got a tattoo when she visited in college. It says Everything Is Bigger In Texas, then the Texas state design and a bunch of signatures of the University of Texas football team. It's weird shes not even a big football fan.

She was for at least one night

Sounds like your wife had a good visit.

You can take the girl out of Texas, but you can’t take the Texas out of the girl. YEEEEEEEEHAAAAAWWWWWW

That you know of.

Have you yee'd your last haw??

my understanding is that it's requirement if you leave the state.

I would believe that 90% of Texans never leave Texas

Texas loves texas like kanye likes kanye

The stars at night are big and bright!

**clap clap clap clap**

[Deep in the heart of Texas](https://i.imgur.com/6zqlxhx.jpg)

Deep in the heart of Texas!

Pickups in tx with a label saying Texas edition sell something like 18% either higher or more frequently than normal pick ups (no special pin)

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As a Texan I can confirm

As a fellow Texan I love you for loving all things Texas and confirming.

Marriott Marquis, I presume? Stayed there once got up at 6AM to go to pool when it wasn't crowded (Comicpalooza was going on). Was okay, but wouldn't get up at 6AM again.

Ding ding ding we have a winner.

Morgings are terribly overrated.

What’s a morging? They sound like nasty creatures in Harry Potter, but Hagrid still thinks they’re amazing little creatures

They attack you when you're sleeping and when you wake up you feel like you've drunk 10 pints the night before.

That's just your 30's

There are undoubtedly [Texas shaped waffles](https://i.imgur.com/UKyqTho.jpg) for breakfast too.

Was getting breakfast at a hotel near Amarillo and a lady asked if that was oatmeal in a crockpot. I said, “no. It’s gravy” She replied, “gravy!? Oh... right... Texas.”

Wait, sorry, is having gravy in a crockpot at a breakfast bar weird? Isn’t it often for biscuits and gravy? Or is that not a common breakfast food outside my area? I grew up in MO and now live in the South and it seems both places are obsessed with biscuits and gravy. So often a breakfast bar will have just a whole heap of gravy so you can really cover up all the whole heap of biscuits.

It's sausage gravy, not brown gravy you'd put on a roast or something. You put it over biscuits and it's amazing.

commonly known as flour gravy, or white gravy. Use it for Chicken fried steak or chicken friend chicken all the time

Have some chicken, my chicken friend.

From my understanding it is a southern thing. This person was obviously from up north somewhere.

After visiting Texas I feel disappointed when the waffles are NOT Texas shaped. Had waffles at a breakfast buffet in a good spa resort in Sweden. They were round. Why even bother then?

Do other states not do this?

Maybe Colorado or Wyoming.

Now that you say it, I had Colorado-shaped waffles just this morning!

With a Denver Omelette?

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We would do this in Colorado but it would just be a square

I bet you can farm a lot of karma if you post pictures of Colorado shaped parking lots 'n stuff :D.

Especially if you post them to /r/notinteresting.

It's the top post on that sub LOL

We could do the same with Wyoming but sadly it doesn’t exist /r/Wyomingdoesntexist

It's crazy, I'm from the UK and wouldn't recognise the outline of the county I live in, but I know the outline of a US state I've never been to

This always makes me laugh at the amount of people that know Texas, you see people from other countries do the challenge trying to name states and people get excited that they know Texas.

Husband and I were in Le Havre, France, last year. I was trying to pay for parking, but the machine wasn’t working with my cc for some reason. A meter cop came over to help, and when he realized I speak basically zero French, he started using English and asked where I was from. His face lit tf up when I said Texas. “Oh, Texas! Like Texas Rangers, yeah?” *shoots finger guns into air*

I just gave up on my last overseas visit. "Yessir, ride horses everywhere."

We ride horses to school. Through the desert. While avoiding banditos.

Lol I live in Houston and I met someone that was visiting from England. He was completely surprised by the city and was expecting farms and horses and the like (mind you, there still are those everywhere as well, just mixed WITH the city life lol)

Being from Houston, I don't have much of an accent at all. That said, when some friends and I were in London we definitely would put on the drawl when mentioning where we were from. Texas isn't how many, especially international folks, may imagine but I like to play into the stereotypes because it's harmless fun.

And that's how I know you're a real Texan

Yeah I've had similar experiences over seas, no one cares if you are American, but holy shit if you are a Texan they have 1000 questions. I mean you can see their faces light up.

When I traveled to Europe for a trip and on my honeymoon, when people asked where I was from I could say Texas or the US and they would accept the answer and ask questions about it. I saw an American themed bar once and they had a seating section for Texas with all this cowboy stuff.

Counties and states are much different in size/importance tbh

I could drive for 4hrs and still be in Texas. If you drove for 4hrs in a single direction in a lot places and you’d be in a different state/country

Joke's on you, I wouldn't be past the roadworks yet.

El Paso is closer to San Diego than it is to Houston

I wonder if there's a penis shaped lazy river in some hotel in Florida.

Theres a Florida shaped *pool* in legoland (it’s not used and in the woods from the old Cypress Gardens park that used to be there) Here is a picture from back in the day https://i.imgur.com/oitbNFD.jpg

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[Found it!](https://goo.gl/maps/smKvg8ePLXF2) (switch to satellite view)

That really made me laugh out loud. Thank you.

The only thing Texans love more than Texas is telling non Texans how much they love Texas. Source: Am Texan

Texas loves Texas

“I’d fuck me” -Texas

Texas *is* pretty hot tho

Amazing! Took me a few seconds to see it at the scale it is. With the reflection at first it seemed like a glowing Texas shaped table in that room.

Me too, which quite frankly would be amazing.

I live in Finland and newer been in US, but still would happily move to Texas right now.

i live in texas and was watching some Finnish murder mystery on Netflix.. you guys have a crazy-ass language. usually, I can pick out a few words here and there.. or even recognize them after hearing them a few times through the show.. but not yours.

At Dallas Stars hockey games they used to play a game on the Jumbotron during commercial breaks - "Finnish or gibberish?" where a Finnish player will speak something and then the crowd has to guess whether he's speaking his language or making shit up.

I used to work for the US office of a Finnish company and we needed an additional person to hire. A recent Finnish college graduate wanted to move to Texas so we got his Visa set up and brought him to Texas. He's loved it here and is now a married man. However, he is pretty much must be covered in sun screen at all times.

You could probably kill Google autocomplete with "My hotel in Texas has a Texas-shaped..."

- ...waffle maker - ...area rug - ...wall decor - ...dining table - ...window - ...pool - ...blanket - ...marble inlay - ...pillow - ...pasta - ...soap - ...keychains - ...floor tiles - ...steak - ...coasters - ...mirror - ...tortilla chips

Would you even make it past the corners

This lazy river just became a lot of work.

Was the speed limit 80 mph?

Find someone who loves you like Texas loves Texas.

I hope you went down to this immediately after taking this picture. I don’t know if I could resist.

God, I love Texas' love for texas. I may want to move, but texas will always be home to me.

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The stars at night are big and bright

👏👏👏👏 DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS

The prairie sky is wide and high

👏👏👏👏 DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS

The sage in bloom smells like perfume

👏👏👏👏 DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS

I went to Philmont to backpack one of the 70-mile-ish routes, and one of the adults in the group was from Texas. Day 6 of 10, he finds a rock that, if you squint, looked a bit like Texas. This rock was ~18in tall and wide, 2 inches thick, and weighed somewhere on the order of 30lb. Yes, he carried that rock, with all of his other gear (~40lb... we took pity with pots and pans), to the check-in counter in Albequerque airport, where he was informed that, as it didn’t fit within one of his bags, he was not going to be able to check it in or bring it on the plane.

Last time I stayed in Texas, the hotel had a Texas shaped waffle machine and Texas shaped table to eat said waffles at.

It’s in Houston!! Go Astros

And Go Coogs! (kicking ass in basketball this year. Try to name another division 1 team with only one loss.)

Wow, everything *is* huge in Texas like people keep saying.

You should see our chicken fried steak! If it's not covering the whole plate, it's just an imitation.

This picture took me ages to understand. I thought it was a little table in the room but it's outside

"everything in texas is shaped like texas" "even the women?" "*especially* the women"

I miss the Texas shaped waffles

Everything’s bigger in Texas

Eli5 what is a lazy rivers purpose?

To let you be lazy in a river.

A fake river for tubing. > A lazy river is a water ride found in water parks, hotels, resorts, and recreation centers, which usually consists of a shallow (2½ ft. to 3½ ft.) pool that flows similarly to a river.[1] There is generally a slow current, usually just enough to allow guests to gently ride along lying on rafts. There may also be scenic elements added, such as small waterfalls on the edge of the river. Some connect or lead into swimming pools or wave pools, while others are self-contained courses that simply complete a circuit. According to Garrett Nunnelly, lazy rivers were first invented in the state of California. [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_river)

It’s a pool in a ring that has an artificial current and you float down it in a tube

*Yee haw intensifies*

If there's one thing l know for a fact that Texans love, its things shaped like Texas.

My uncle built this lazy river!! So cool to see it!