What an interesting history of the phrase "Don't Mess With Texas"! I identify as part-Texan (my mother's whole family, and going back to a rancher great-grandfather, with lots of Fort Worth memories), and have always appreciated the swagger of this phrase but had stopped using it until I could investigate further. @BethCollier and @CuriousMinds to the rescue! Now that I know this is about actual trash (and not about, say, the Confederacy) we can return to regular programming. 😆
Thanks for this post - I never thought about where the Texas slogan came from! I am up way too early today and now I need to find out how some of these other taglines originated. 😆
What an interesting history of the phrase "Don't Mess With Texas"! I identify as part-Texan (my mother's whole family, and going back to a rancher great-grandfather, with lots of Fort Worth memories), and have always appreciated the swagger of this phrase but had stopped using it until I could investigate further. @BethCollier and @CuriousMinds to the rescue! Now that I know this is about actual trash (and not about, say, the Confederacy) we can return to regular programming. 😆
You can say “Don’t Mess with Texas” with pride! 😉
Thanks for this post - I never thought about where the Texas slogan came from! I am up way too early today and now I need to find out how some of these other taglines originated. 😆
I would never have guessed the origin story involved trash...But it was a fun one to learn!
Thanks for reading!