"Cuchulain Libby" > wrote in message
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> Misschef wrote:
> > I humbly retract my previous statements regarding the lack of
> > comparison.
> >
> > Misschef
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> Apology accepted <g>
> It would interesting to investigate the heredity of those early cowboys.
The
> towns in the Hill Country were settled by Germans, drawn by a land
> speculator who had a speculative investment of 300,000 acres of worthless,
> Indian-infested land he sold to the homefolk as a Paradise. He bought it
> sight unseen. Sort of like Florida swampland only prettier. The cattle
> coming up from the Nueces on their way to market ate all the grasses up
> there, leaving room for the cedar to take over.
> Unless the Chili Queens predate the immigrants.
>
> -Hound
>
>

Betcha anyone with a pan and a pot naturally browns meat and adds chiles.
Just a hunch, Hound.

Jack