It's not always easy to sell people on Oklahoma – the weather sucks, the politics are awful, there isn't much to do – but one thing we got going for us is food, and lots of it.
In fact, we even have an official State Meal that has its own Wikipedia article and a TLO Ranking. In case you forgot, here are all the items that the legislature included with it back in 1988:
• Barbequed pork
• Chicken-fried steak
• Sausage with biscuits and gravy
• Black-eyed peas
• Corn
• Fried okra
• Grits
• Squash
• Bread
• Cornbread
• Pecan pie
• Strawberries
It's a solid list, and many Oklahoma food staples are on it, but the culinary scene has changed very rapidly in the last several years, and not everybody wants to eat black-eyed peas and squash all the time now. We need to update the State Meal to reflect changing tastes.
Here are some suggestions: