Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wants to name New York strip steak something less woke

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has a beef with the New York strip steak.

And now a steakhouse is suing.

In the Republican culture warrior’s latest attempt to own the libs, he argues that New York is known for dairy cows while Texas is all about the beef. In Feb. 28 tweet, he claimed the Lone Star State deserves the name even though a New York restaurant is credited with popularizing the cut.

“Liberal New York shouldn’t get the credit for our hard-working ranchers,” Patrick said in a lengthy tweet explaining his stance on the self-generated controversy.

“The Texas Senate will file a concurrent resolution to officially change the name of the New York Strip to the ‘Texas Strip’ in the Lone Star State,” the tweet continues. “We ask restaurants to change the name of this strip of meat the next time they reprint their menus, and grocery stores to do the same. We want this to catch on across the country and around the globe.”

Texas Senate Concurrent Resolution 26 also proposes making the renamed “Texas strip” the state’s official steak.

In response, one New York steakhouse, the War Room Tavern, plans to sue the state of Texas, culinary blog Eater reports.

Additionally, Delmonico’s — a fine-dining institution in Manhattan’s Financial District credited for naming the cut back in the 19th century — has also pushed back against Patrick, the New York Times reports. Delmonico’s opened in 1827, before Texas even became a state.

Indeed, the cut in question has already undergone a renaming since its early days. The steak was originally called the Kansas City strip but New York fine diners didn’t think it sounded fancy enough for the price tag, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports. Sorry, Kansas City.

Meanwhile, Patrick’s critics have panned him for trying to gin up controversy around the name of a cut of meat while a measles outbreak quickly spreads in West Texas.

Patrick ended the tweet unveiling his culinary crusade by dropping another recent renaming no one asked for.

“After session ends this summer, I might take a short cruise across the Gulf of America and have a juicy medium-rare Texas Strip,” Patrick added.

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