Found this interesting history of this regional classic on Wiki:

"One claimant to the invention of Texas toast is the Kirbys Pig Stand restaurant chain, founded in Oak Cliff, a neighborhood of Dallas, Texas, in the early 1920s. The once-thriving chain, whose heyday in the 1940s saw over 100 locations across the United States, also claims to be the originator of the onion ring.[7] Texas toast may have been first created in 1946 at the Pig Stand in Denton, Texas, after a bakery order for thicker slices of bread resulted in slices too thick for the toaster and a cook, Wiley W. W. Cross, suggested buttering and grilling them as a solution. Another Pig Stand cook in Beaumont, Texas claimed he created the idea of grilling the bread."

Does anyone here make their loaves from scratch? Does Kirby's Pig Stand still exist?

I bake sour dough bread, which will toast very well and make excellent chicken salad sandwiches with red ripe tomatoes and Bibb lettuce.

Ole Miss, that sounds really delicious. I just never sorted out the sourdough starter thing, but should try again.

Kinda along the same lines. I have been ordering German dark rye + bavarian sauerkraut + hot Dusseldorf Or Nuremburg mustard for making my Reubens;I can get good corn beef here. The site is Germandeli.com.They have some great stuff,also I can order the grandkids advent calendars from Germany for them during the advent.Check them out.

Hmm, a guy could run up a tab pretty quickly at germandeli.com ...

Shortly after the earth's crust began to cool, and I was still a kid in VA, when we camped we would fry our bread. We just called it fried bread. We also made a bread using just flout and water and a bit of salt. This was shaped into a pancake and fried. FYI. the grease of choice was either bacon grease or (shutter, quake) lard.

Wasbee, I , too was present shortly after the creation, and can vouch for flour, salt and water, plus pine needles and campfire ashes, tasting pretty good with some Velveeta or Spam on a Scout campout.

Bill,you are so right. I have had to quit buying lately for other reasons.They are expensive but damned good.Their bread makes the best Reubens + their kraut + sauerbraten is almost as good as my mother makes.

My grampaw and I used to cook "campbread" in a dutch oven, during branding time, sometimes sourdough, but I never liked Sourdough...We would cook and he would expound on his days in the Texas Rangers in South Texas on the Nueces strip to El Paso. it basically was a huge biscuit and with deer meat cooked with white gravy this 5 or 6 year old kid could eat a pound or two and never blink an eye..He passed away and I reached the age of becoming a cowhand, doing what cowboys do..I can still make a pan of that bread over hot coals top and bottom. His pictures adorn my office. His guns are my guns now..His iron skillet and dutch over are mine..

We went to Altanta to attend the Blade show, I met up with a buddy who moved from Long Island. He took us to Houston's. A chain restaurant. He ordered Texas Toast for us. Was pretty good.

Germandeli went out of business;mores the pity to us all. Seems that having a superior product with great service was not enough.Standart BS. Although I will miss their product line My main concern at this point is a source for my grandkids advent calendars for Christmas. That's important to ME!Any input is appreciated.