Man, green beans and new potatoes were a real Texas/southern thing. My mother loved em, would make em, and would even buy and serve them from the can. Like these, but Del Monte (don’t think they make them anymore): And yeah, great/classic Texas bbq was not that common. There were a handful of small-town bbq places that were and sometimes still are classics, but it wasn’t nearly as ubiquitous as it is now. Frankly, food as a whole was much simpler. Sushi? My dad told me about eating it on a trip to San Francisco. I was 26 the first time I actually tried it (and my family was generally WAY ahead of the curve on trying new/exotic things - we ate at a lot of Asian restaurant places on our side of Houston where we would be the only non-Asians there, but today…all of those places would be pretty mainstream). Butter with saltines or tortillas was absolutely a S. Tx Mexican food mainstay.