We asked on Facebook: What’s the ultimate Texas dish?

Chicken-fried steak with gravy and mashed potatoes!

– Kimberly Nitzschke

Torn between a 36-ounce tomahawk ribeye or a trashcan-lid-sized chicken-fried steak with mashed potatoes and cream gravy. Then there’s brisket. Oh, and chili — without beans!

– Don Walker

Chicken-fried steak, mashed potatoes, green beans, yeast rolls and cream gravy.

– Janice Stohlman

Frito pie with a Lone Star or Dr Pepper.

– Paula Murphy

Homemade kolaches. Best fresh out of my Momma’s oven! Long ago.

– Helen Pausewang

It has got to be chili and tamales. Can’t have one without the other.

– Brian Maxwell

Chili with no beans, Frito chili pie, guacamole … barbecue done right, sweet corn right out of the field, fresh-picked okra fried in cornmeal and bacon grease.

– Johnna Rosenthal

Queso! Not sure if it’s a “dish,” but I can eat it with a spoon.

– Heidi Hansen Seigel

Chicken-fried venison.

– Casey Miller

Brisket, ranch beans, with a Shiner.

– Norman D. Pappous

A lot of transplants think barbecue is synonymous with grilling. Not true. Barbecue brisket is low and slow with an offset firebox. Texas barbecue sauce is a ketchup-based sauce, unlike the mustard-based sauces on the East Coast.

– Clyde Wood

A Reuben. Just kidding. Some good barbecue brisket.

– Ziggy Gruber (owner of Kenny & Ziggy’s New York Delicatessen Restaurant in Houston)

Once you cross the Red River, you can’t get Mexican food worth anything. Texas-fried steak with white gravy, chili — no beans, or brisket without that sloppy sauce. Every time I head north, I count the days till I can return to the land of real, clean food and a cold Shiner! Plus, I hear they’re getting $8 for an avocado in New York City.

– Kathy Moore Gottlieb

Maybe black-eyed peas, okra, corn bread. Served my daughter-in-law from way up north these things and she had never eaten any of them, or heard of putting turkey necks in beans to meat them up — most tender part of the turkey.

– Becky Dundee

A Whataburger.

– John Clark

Fried okra battered with cornmeal, buttermilk and salt and pepper. That’s what Texas is all about, y’all!

– Jeff Mixon

My mom’s stuffed flounder. Fresh flounder stuffed with fresh crabmeat — both from Galveston Bay.

– Stacy Newkirk Kaiser

Whataburger No. 1 with cheese.

– Katherine Becker

Steak, beans and homemade biscuits.

– Tuggy Hamzy

King Ranch chicken.

– Kimbra Stokley

Prasek’s sausage.

– Jeffrey Kunz

Barbecue sausage from the Hill Country.

– Robert Taylor

T-Bone.

– Andrew Malcolm Shelton

Blue Bell Ice Cream, y’all! Hands down.

– Kevin Moran