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To the goggling unbeliever Texans say — as people always say about their mangier dishes — "but it's just like chicken, only tenderer." Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken, only tougher.
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Cooke, Alistair (1980). The Americans: Fifty talks on our life and times. Knopf. p. 183. ISBN 9780394503646. OCLC 5311048. 

 

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