In the part of Texas we were staying (Houston) locals called a bottle of Budweiser a, "goose neck Bud." I was a damn Yankee; this is not to be confused with a Yankee. Damn Yankee is a northerner that stays and stays. A regular Yankee stays for the winter. Since I was a damn Yankee on contract fixing F-4C's at Ellington AFB, I strived to act like a local.
"Set me and my goat roping partner up with a couple of goose necks Bud's." If you ordered beer correctly you don't need a pickup with a 30/30 in your gun rack. You don't need a bent down straw cowboy hat. You don't need a pair of Levi's with a shoal circle. Forget about hitching down your Levi's with an illegal Texas state symbol pie pan belt buckle.
If you ordered incorrectly, you would be greeted by a couple of legal native Texans, usually shooting pool.
Texas would become silent. "Are you Yankees?"
If you're feeling tough or had too much beer this would be a good time to say something awful like, "Yeah, we are here to fuck all the fine looking women in Texas. Where's your sister? Where's your Momma? First though, we want to show you boys how to drink beer, and have a blood pissing contest. We can swing distance or go accurate. Then we will help out your neglected women; get them in tune with nature. We heard that you Texas boys liked dry sex with your favorite sheep."
Normally you will not get to the sheep part. Someone will be flogging you on the noggin with a single piece bar pool cue. After you go down, they drink your beer, pick your pockets and buy rounds. If you come to and aren't sticking to the floor, belly up to the bar, drink some free beer, you're paying for it.
The answer that works the best in Texas for the "Yankee" question is to say you are from northern Tennessee. The local native Texans will start singing songs about Davy Crockett and the Tennessee 400.
My advice is to not talk to much, let your drinking skills talk for you and order a "goose neck Bud." Do not slip and say, "Bottle of Bud." Do not say, "Long neck Bud." Do not even think about a can or stubby bottle. You are in Texas. Everything is bigger in Texas.
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My partner Dave and I were out chasing pussy in one of the local meat markets. Our normal routine would be to buy a cold six pack and wolf it down while driving to the local cheap ass beer dive. The low life bars will usually feature some big tittied girl from Michigan or Ohio performing barmaid duties. The reason I know this is because women from Texas do not have breasts. They feature the finest legs and ass on the planet. Tits---forget about it. This horrible problem is being solved by a massive influx of Yankee women who used to build cars on the assembly lines way up north. When they got laid off in Detroit, "why freeze your ass off, haul it south" They all showed up in Houston, the city of oil opportunity.