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@2:02 But *wait*!!! *Where* did you have the best brisket of your life?!? You didn't tell us! lol I have some friends that live near Dallas and I want recommend it. And if I ever head down to Dallas again, I don't want to get stuck going to Dicky's BBQ pit! I want to have the best brisket of my life toooooo! :O :D
Legitimately my favorite thing about videos with Texas in the title is the comments section where different regions of Texas talk shit on each other and then we band together to talk shit on other states.
You are correct. Dallas and houston folks don't like each other in TX but the second we are in another state we are the best of friends because we're both Texan
And he was being generous. Downtown Dallas is a nightmare to drive through. Even if you've been here for years, the constant construction means its always different every time. I had to drive from Collin County to Lemon and McKinney for work each day in the 90's when they had 75 closed down to 1 lane for construction in large parts. I was in a car with no AC or radio in the middle of summer. I was so thrilled to get transferred to a new store in Plano.
Fun fact: many of the roads in Texas were originally cow paths that followed the contours of the terrain. Not a joke, as someone likes to say! I'm 5th generation Texan...
@@CheeseyBreezey Austin is plenty weird. You need to look harder. Don't blame it on California - Austin was never going to retain its obvious weirdness for very long with its music scene getting international attention. I don't think California was responsible for SXSW or ACL.
@@jameskaihatu6209 Austin was weird. Austin was affordable. Californians started moving by the truckful, Austin ain't affordable, and it ain't weird. Californians move it, vote for the same shit that made large swaths of California so prohibitively expensive and boring and then they go "Why's it all going to hell" when they did this, if it was just to themselves there would be no problem, but they keep coming to Texas and doing it to us and them.
@@Wickwatcher Now now - DFW is a good balance, Tarrant/Denton is for some, Dallas/Collin are for others...and the best part is they are both in Texas. :)
As a Mississippian that now lives in Fort Worth.....Texas is not the South....Texas is Texas. Also, as different as Dallas and Fort Worth are....we all agree that Austin is the lone crayon in a box of markers..
Austin is the out of state poeple. We just shove them in one location so we dont have to deal with them. Though Dallas is that way a bit too with all the wealth there
When I moved to DFW many years ago, I was told that Dallas is the western-most eastern city and Fort Worth is the eastern-most western city. I think that’s fitting.
And the eastern most sections from Mesquite, Garland, and beyond just get more and more...well east! Rockwall, more money, more guns. Not that it's a bad thing, It's just a thing.
Fort Worths motto is "where the west begins". I can't decide if that means like.. if you go one more foot west, its no longer the South. Or if once you enter, its no longer the South. its.. confusing.
Last time I was in Dallas and rented a car there was a CHANCE of snow/ice one of the days I was going to be there. The guy at the counter asked if I had ever driven in snow or ice before, since I had reserved a compact car. I assured him I had and I was not concerned. He straight faced said “ I’m going to upgrade you to a 4 whee drive SUV, no additional cost. YOU may know how to drive in that mess, but WE don’t. At least this may give you an opportunity to get out of the way so we don’t run into you.” He wasn’t wrong, there were pileups on every non straight road I went on. I’m not even sure there was any actual ice. I think the thought of potential ice made everyone a worse driver.
Good looking out on his part. North Texans don't know how to drive on icy or snowy roads. I used to live in Chicago, so I learned. But, when the roads ice or snow-over, I stay off them for that reason, alone. I just wait for everything to melt 😉
I've lived in Dallas my whole life. Sadly, most folks around here don't know how to drive when the roads are dry and the sun is shining. The whole city shuts down at the thought of ice.
@@candace2117 I have the same experience in Kansas City. I'm also from the Chicago area. I learned to drive a stick shift heading up a snow packed hill.
That sounds like where I live in southwest Louisiana. It rains here a lot but you would think people have never driven on wet roads before. There aren't a bunch of accidents it's just that the majority of people start driving 5 mph UNDER the speed limit and leave a gap big enough to fit an 18 wheeler between them and the vehicle in front of them. They drive like they have no tread left on their tires.
Also a spec of rain sends most true Texans indoors, with a day off of any outdoor work. EXCEPT road construction. Nothing can stop that. They’re like the ants
The road system in Dallas was actually designed by cattle. Cattle take the easiest route from Point A to Point B. The road engineers conceded that the cows were smarter than they were, and took the easy way out. End of story.
Dallas road system is probably the best in Texas since a lot of it is a grid. Get off the road in Austin, Houston, or San Antonio and find an alternate route and you'll appreciate how bovine Dallas is. Lockhart, TX for BBQ.
@@charlesbarry7479 I went there about 3 years ago, since it's close to home, and was very disappointed with the quality and the price. I remember enjoying it quite a bit in the 90's, but it has fallen off a lot since then.
Dickies used to be really good until they got too big for their britches. Quality went way down. There was only one (Central Expwy) until the '80's then 2 more popped up in Plano, Tx (Coit Rd & DT Plano). After that, it went downhill.
@@dfreeman16s Yosemite is pretty freaking nice. Same with the Shasta and Lassen areas. And the High Sierras. As a Texan, man we have some great nature out west, and in the Hill Country, but California kills us on that stuff.
Dickies is to BBQ what Olive Garden is to Italian. Fun fact, my brother's wife grew up on Oak Cliff. As a teenager her sister was hit by a stray bullet. By the time the ambulance showed up to their house, they had already been in the ER for 20 minutes.
@@Bones12x2 It used to be a decent option in areas that didn't have a local BBQ joint. I used to love abusing their ice cream machine to make coke floats on hot days when I worked in maintenance.
@@Bones12x2 Dickies exists on nostalgia. I'm 72, and I at a Dickies when there was only one location, run by Roland Dickie on the east side of Dallas Central Expressway at Fitzhugh Avenue. The place had sawdust on the floor, seating for about 35, and you had to bring your own beer. There were 9 pits out back that could handle half of a steer each, because that's how much he catered. When Dr. Pepper went national, they loaded a Braniff 727-200QC half full of cans of soda and half full of Roland Dickie's brisket and buns, and they gave away Dickie's BBQ sandwiches with cans of Dr. Pepper in Times Square New York at lunchtime. My father was the Braniff executive who sold the charter. Roland's grand kids and their cousins who have no memories of those days run the company now, and they're too much like John Neely Bryan.
As a born and bred Texan, this was hilarious! It is true Texas is neither South or West.. we're Texas ❤ and i totally agree with the commenter who said Austin is the crayon among the markers
Fun fact, the soil (yes actual dirt) from the Eastern US and Western US meet between Dallas and Fort Worth. So east of D you get trees, W of FW you get scrub land. May-June = hail season. June-August = H*LL season. Come visit us October-Jan 15 for best first timer results. Y’all is the proper spelling. Ya’ll is for Houston thru Louisiana.
@@Maevelikeschampagne In English grammar punctuation, the apostrophe is used to indicate missing letters. Such as, you all is contracted into y'all. Which, by the way, is never used to indicate only one. Y'all is meant as plural, more than one. Used incorrectly makes me cringe. Like fingernails on a blackboard.
@@AKHWJ3ST Maybe that's true for English, but that's not what we're talkin' about. "All Y'all" is plural. "Y'all" can be used to apply to a lone person, a tree, a bunch of chickens, or a recalcitrant machine. "Y'all" is a universal term. "All Y'all" is slightly more specific and means the subject of the sentence, plus everyone they might meet before whatever event takes place. "Y'all come on back, now!" means for you, or whomever is right there with you, is welcome to come back for a visit. "All y'all had best stay out of the bayou." - everyone on that side of the county had best stay away from the bayou, there's probably alligators and/or turtles, if not a crazy neighbor or three. Sorry if spoken language makes you cringe. Languages are fluid, dynamic, and constantly changing. You have to shift with them, or just try to be the lone voice of reason and the subject of gossip. (Had y'all heard of ol' @AKHWJ3ST? They went plum crazy over Mary-Beth calling her dog out of the chickens the other day!)
"Their roads were made by throwing spaghetti at a wall" - God that is so true. Back in 2010 I took my nephews to Six Flags over Dallas.... To this day that trip was the only time where my TomTom GPS had a stroke.
Just in my small part of Texas ... Let's see 1171 is Main Street (West AND East) ... Cross Timbers Road .. and further out it's back to 1171. Then there's 2499 .. it's also The Dam Road ... 2499 .. Long Prairie Road... and International Parkway ... ALL are one and the same. Those are just the two main roads. I won't go into other roads as it is just as confusing.
Having grown up in Dallas Fort Worth (DFW to outsiders) all of this can’t be more true. The one thing about the sweet tea you you have to realize is that Dr Pepper is King in Texas.
Dr Pepper is my drug of choice!! When I travel by car to other states I always take a 12 pack with me "just in case". I hate it when you ask for a Dr Pepper and they reply " We have Mr Pibb". They might as well just say something bad about my Mama.
@@janettamcgee8124 I know what you mean. People are always like “Mr. Pib and Dr. Pepper the same thing.” I’m like “Have you ever tried the two they’re not the same!🤣”
@@janettamcgee8124I was recently in the Boston area and asked if they had Dr Pepper. She said the closest they had was Pepsi. I thought "In what world is Pepsi anywhere close to Dr Pepper?"
I’ve driven in about 30-35 states and traveled to over 2 dozen countries. Dallas drivers and Dallas highways stressed me out like no other place on this earth.
I don’t know. I’m from Dallas and Miami drivers are the absolute worst I have ever experienced, at least we have a system with a fast lane, down there they are just all over the place
Houston make DFW look like a walk in a park. It's one big circle of highway, aggression 24 hours per day, shooting, tons of accidents. If you ever driven I10 Katy to Baytown is a war zone ;)
As a lifetime Texas resident that lives about an hour east of Dallas. I totally agree with your assessment of Dallas. My favorite skyscraper there is the "pickle". If you know, you know. Also, be safe on those roads. Texas overall has some crazy drivers, but even here in a more rural area, we consider Dallas driving to be advanced dodgeball, but with cars.
@@drewpfeif5028 Man, I lived in Houston for 19 years. Driving in Dallas proper (not Fort Worth) is the craziest driving I've ever seen in my life. People going 90+ always and the most confusing road system. I think Houston has bad drivers, but Dallas has AGGRESSIVE drivers.
Grew up in Arlington, and really, we're just happy to get the recognition that we are not actually in Dallas or Fort Worth... And many of the fun things you go to 'Dallas' to do, are actually in Arlington!
When Cowboys Stadium opened, Dallas people got mad at me because I said Dallas became a suburb of Arlington, lol. Six Flags, Cowboys Stadium, and Rangers Stadium. Yeah, Dallas is a suburb, lol. I know those stadiums have names, but I am used to the old names.
To an out of towner there is no "bad BBQ" in Dallas. It'll all be passable or they'd go out of business which means if they're tourists it'll still be the best they ever had. Even the Dickey's are better in Dallas than other places.
I live in Arlington and go to work in Fort Worth. We like to joke that Dallas is getting filled with so many people coming from California that you should now be called Dalifornia!
You should've definately maxed out the insurance! We're maniac drivers - Blue haired ladies in Mercedes get the right of way; it's legal to be armed..and remember that 35W doesn't actually run east/west🤠🤠
I-35a is a parking lot from Denton to Alvarado. In a thousand years when archaeologists are digging through the area, freeways will still be under construction.
As a resident of DFW for 20+ years… this is highly accurate. Except neglecting to mention dallas drivers will merge into lanes with 0 regard if you are already there. They just cut over and expect you to move.
All the out of staters coming in and not realizing they need to *accelerate into the traffic stream* and they merge into 80 mph traffic at 55 mph... fkn Californians.
Well, in defense, we used to signal and politely ask permission before merging, but we had to put an end to that. Now, if we signal, it’s just to provoke people into driving faster and tailgate the other guy. Seriously. I don’t care how much room you think you have, it will disappear the second you use your signal. They speed up to block! We also used to predict when someone needed over, like construction, or an on ramp, and would leave these large gaps in front of us, but nope. Had to stop that too. People would just pass you, ride along the shoulder, and merge in front of the guy in front of you, causing them, you, and everyone else behind to make complete stops, rather than seamlessly merge using the space you provided them, with minimal braking.
Matt! So perfect! I'm native of Fort Worth, 67 years, and this was the MOST perfect definition of Dallas, not being Fort Worth, that I've ever heard! We are glad you enjoyed your visit! Come on back again.
As a Texan born in Dallas and raised in Grand Prairie (right next to Arlington) I want to disagree with the points made in this video… but I can’t… because then I would be lying… Dallas is why I left the metroplex to go live on a 50 acre ranch outside of a small town in East Texas. Funny thing is, when I got here they hated me because I was from DFW… but I explained I left DFW because I hate DFW… didn’t do any good. Prices still went up by 50% until I officially had my address change on my DL and I was a member of a local church. Now I just have to remind my wife to stop telling people we’re from DFW….
After growing up with half my childhood spent with the Mixmaster, which always terrified any relatives visiting us, I married a boy and moved to Columbia, SC. They have the cutest little Malfunction Junction. It’s only 2 interstates and people aren’t breaking the sound barrier with their speed. Texas is just Texas. 💚 Love those Rangers!
They redid the mixmaster like five years ago or so (finished it) took them a couple of years. It's even bigger and you can go even faster! If you're going westbound through the Canyon you can basically floor it as soon as you hit the ramp for either I-35E North or South because you get two lanes each direction and when you get to 35 (especially southbound) it's going at 80 mph so you better get moving or you'll get run over.
@@wendyduncan9084 The rain thing is true everywhere, though. I don't think I've ever been to Columbia, even though I was an OTR truck driver. It's kinda in a spot where unless it's your destination you take a different route and don't really pass through it. If it's been quite a while since you've been through they also put in a toll road canyon that's 3 lanes each direction between I-35 and US-75 that is where a lot of street racing happens. Every time I go through it I'm doing 100 or so and someone passes me.
Fort Worth resident here! Been here 17 years and I love it. I would never, ever, ever want to live in Dallas. Dallas is home to the $30,000 millionaire -have a fancy car and fancy clothes but they still live at home with mom and dad. Fun fact - Fort Worth is the 12th largest city in the country, but only the 5th largest city in Texas. That tells you how big Texas is. Fort Worth has amazing amenities like a big city, with a small town feel. The downtown is clean and safe and probably one of the best downtowns I’ve ever been in. And I’ve lived in a lot of states.
Life long Texan here and from out country perspective, it's all the same. Millionaire bankers or millionaire drug store cowboys. Take your pick. Concrete, concrete and more concrete.
Stay safe out there. My dad is a biker too but he stopped riding after an accident. He already had injuries he got when he was in the Army. He bent the rod that was in his leg.
I thought it was funny him standing in front of one of the many locations for a bad BBQ. Now, the original Black's in Lockhart, run by Terry's family, is a different story.
Lived in Dallas for 4 years until I moved my parents to Texas. Moved just west of Ft Worth to a much quieter area, but still close enough for entertainment. Been here for 24 years and love it here in Texas.
Matt i wish i knew you were visiting. Missed opportunity. So my saying is people from fort worth sometimes go to dallas. People from dallas never go to fort worth and everyone goes to Arlington. Also fort worth is better. We win the iron skillet every year over dallas.
Yeah, but the dingbat athletic director from my beloved TCU has done away with it. He thinks that TCU needs to play better teams than SMU so no more Iron Skillet game. So much for tradition. He jinxed us. After his proclamation TCU didn't get a bowl game and SMU did.
When I was growing up in Dallas in the 80's and 90's, it was very much the south. Now that its been thoroughly been invaded by california, not any more. Its sad.
I agree with you on that. The town I live in ( suburbs of Dallas)built a factory that employees alot of the town. Everywhere I drive there are out of state licence plates and moving vans. They have added 3 new huge subdivisions and expanded 2 more. Houses and stores are going up like crazy. The majority of plates are California,Louisiana, and Minnesota.
I was born in San Antonio and raised in Dallas... Texans usually refer to folks from Dallas as the "yankees of Texas". It's so bad, I have zero accent whatsoever. You were 100% spot on, and that video was about 30 minutes too short.
As a Dallas adjacent native (Carrollton), I can testify that Matt is 100% accurate in his descriptions. As to whether Dallas is southern, I don't think we really are. I mean, we are geographically in the south but not so much southern. Really, most of us in Texas, especially old timers, consider Dallas, and in general Texas, as our own unique place that tries to take the best parts of all the cultures that live here, put it in a big ol' blender and set it on puree.
.....Which ...uhh...which absolutely obliterates any concept of the idea of truly welcoming and turds out their own sickening definition of a clearly Stepford Wives sort of life. Feel free to visit but please understand that if you would like to live here you WILL understand and you WILL Believe....... or you WILL be asked to leave....Immediately..... Oh...Sorry....That would be Football and Steer and all that goes with it. ~ Live it or Leave ~ If you Read that and swelled up with a truly unjustified amount of Pride ? YOU are a texan and that is NOT a compliment.
It's funny that while watching this video, I'm wearing a t-shirt that reads "American by birth, Southern by choice and Texan by the Grace of God!" Great video as always, Matt.
We've had Spaghetti Junction here in the Atlanta region for decades. It really is quite a mess. You have to wonder about the people that came up with these ideas. At least with Atlanta it makes some sense since they were building these Interstates going through a massively growing city. It looks like the area in Dallas wasn't that overgrown with buildings so I'm not sure why they did what they did.
Thank you for the laughs. I needed them. Last month was not a good month. We found out that I have a tumor on my left temporal lobe. Please keep us in your prayers. Thank you in advance. God Bless.
Accurate. Dallas has good barbecue if you want to pay for it. Also, kudos for calling out Dickey's, the most inconsistent chain in Texas because they are a franchise that may be good for awhile, but then change owners, and then suck.
Fort worth's slogan is "where the west begins". Dallas has the cotton bowl, fort worth has the stockyards. We have a long history of culturally and economically existing right on the border of the south and the west.
Very good 😂😂! As a Fort Worth native & longtime Arlington resident, you pretty much nailed it! But I do have to add: Joe T's is proudly located in Fort Worth, and Ripley's is actually in Grand Prairie. And of course Arlington is now the home for the Dallas Cowboys - because apparently we wanted to share Dallas's misery.
This is facts. Lifetime Dallasite and Dallas is just Dallas. It is a major mixing pot as wiser people in NYC/Chicago and LA have moved here long ago. As well as anyone from Arkansas that can spell (like my mother). Since people here are willing to pay insane prices, you can find the best of everything. Just be prepared to pay top dollar and never retire.
@@mattnatwhitt5082Most of them moved at a time they could buy a mini mansion for 400K cash. They often had that in equity form their Chicago/NYC flats or even Long island homes. And ditched major city taxes. Unfortunately, that "bargain" lifestyle is no more. Dallas is very, very expensive now.
This is single-handedly the best succinct (and accurate, with humor) review I've ever watched about DFW. Everything was spot on! I will be sharing this video immediately
@@thejohnbeck if I lived in an area with no barbecue restaurants at all (like Scotland, for example) I would make my own barbecue. I guarantee you that your worst attempt at making your own barbecue would be better than Dickie's. I'm pretty sure they boil their ribs first.
@@mikehodges6598 My St Louis roomie boiled his ribs in chicken stock ahead of the grill and they fabulous... are you saying the boil is a short cut to spending hours over a hot smoky smoker tending those? Ok.
Texas is larger than most European countries (or most of Europe, for that matter). Texas doesn't need to be lumped in with "The South." If anything, The South is an addendum to Texas.
Mhm, Texas is around 150,000 sq. km. bigger than France, about twice the size of Germany. And Texas is just one state, and not even America's largest. The US is ENORMOUS.
I've read every single article of secession that was written at the start to the Civil war. You should read Texas's version and compare it to the others. As a Georgia native, with family roots here back to the 1790's. I find it particularly offensive when I go out west and continually get asked "Are you from Texas". You go right ahead and be Texas, but you aren't hurting any Southerners feelings by not wanting to be considered Southern, and in no way are we an "addendum", to you. I'll gladly stay in my beloved Appalachia.
@@getinit56several of my Texas ancestors fought for the South in the war of northern aggression. We're firmly Southern here in rural Texas! The big Texas cities have filled up with out-of-staters that don't know anything about our legacy and heritage
El Paso is the armpit of Texas, Houston is closer to the butthole...anything South of the Hill Country is just northern Mexico, and Dallas...well most accurate description is Los Angeles, but further east.
Dallas native here, and if folks want to say we're not part of the South, we're OK with that. Just do not say we are not part of Texas. Them's fightin' words, right there I tell you what!
Dallas roads are terrible. If you miss your freeway exit, you end up in Oklahoma. Houston roads make sense; it's like a giant spider web. A spider web filled with psychotic drivers who speed up in the rain and carry weapons, but at least it's easy to find places
Most accurate description of DFW I've seen from someone not from Texas. "It's Texas, just do what you want." (With one caveat - stay out of people's way as best you can.) "This is Dallas, and we're crazy." 635 and I-20 are NASCAR and it's fantastic. If you're uncomfortable going 80 mph and still having people weaving traffic and passing you then stay away. Brisket is a way of life, Joe T's is the gold standard of Mexican food (order the "la familia" and skip the menu). Texas is not the south, we are not the west. We are Texas. We have our own regions, West Texas, East Texas, Deep East Texas, South Texas, North Texas, and Hill Country/Central Texas.
My ancestors and those of plenty of other people around here fought and died for the Confederacy, and they sure thought this was part of the South. Get out away from Dallas and visit some civil war era cemeteries and small Texas towns and your perspective will quickly change
Driving in Dallas is a sport and an adventure no one ask for or wanted. Why do they build roads on top of each other!? I swear Dallas is half bridges half road construction.
I'm so glad to see your own channel doing well. Have been recommending you from the "Bless Your Rank" days, way back when. To me, when it comes to family-friendly comedy, there are Jim Gaffigan and Matt Mitchell! Hope you get your own Netflix special soon!
😂 so accurate. - Deep Ellum has some cool stuff but it's also kinda scary, especially at night. - Highland Park, 100%. I wandered in accidentally one time and felt extremely out of place and left right away. - Joe T's is hyped up a lot. We weren't impressed when we went 🤷🏻♀️ - um yes, the brisket is amazing here. - sweet tea. Oh no! Where did you go that didn't have sweet tea?!
"Designed by throwing spaghetti at a wall" -- as someone who had to commute there every day for ten years, all I can say is SO TRUE -- and even more so now than it used to be. Also fun: try having to drive on that elevated spaghetti in the winter. Subzero wind chill + hint of moisture = instant black ice on levels you've never seen, and I've driven in the North, tyvm.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣As a native Texan, living in VA, you hit the nail on the head bro. If you are still there you may want to check out some of the area's "MULTI MILLION $$$" high school football stadiums. YEP, they have a few of those out there. Start with Allen. I think it is the less expensive of those at $60 Mill. Enjoy!!!
Dallas is not the south. It's a Texas-themed version of Denver or Kansas City, aka the Great Plains. The 'South' is anywhere where you can find proper grits and where people call all soft drinks 'Coke'. That excludes the vast majority of the Dallas area.
Dallas hasn't technically had football since The Cowboys moved from the Cotton Bowl 50 years ago. Now, they don't even play in Dallas County. They play in Tarrant County where Fort Worth is. So there.
Texas has tons of hockey. Dallas just has the stars , tons of beer league, 2 pro roller teams, the minor affiliate team in Austin. Dallas does have the most shut down and ran down rinks in the state though.
As a local Dallasite your video made me smile! Your comment on Dickey’s is true. I went there as a teen but found better joints as an adult. I love you Intrinsic BBQ! Yes I know ur in Garland, but that’s close enough! 😂🤣❤️
When people say "The South" they really mean the southeast. Louisiana (Though New Orleans is its own thing) through most of Florida (the south of Florida is so full of retired New Yorkers, it's part of the north), with a debatable northern border. Texas is weird. We think of it more as the west, but it could be 3 states between the east (which is more southern) the north (which is more midwestern) and the west, (which is definitely western). Dallas seems to fall so smack dab in the middle that it's all 3. But also Dallas is so densely urban that it's also just a little bit......dare I say it.....northern.
That works for everybody else in the DFW Metroplex, too. We would like to keep Dallas out of Fort Worth, Irving, Arlington, Plano, Hurst...... so what you maybe don't grok as an out of towner is that CITY OF DALLAS just looooooves to take mad credit for everything that happens in DALLAS AND TARRANT COUNTIES, while continuously failing to do basic shit like fix the potholes. So yeah, Dallas is a .... six-letter word round these parts. We interact with it when we must, but ONLY when we must. And it's been forty years since CITY of Dallas was the region's growth engine.
Yep...nailed it. As a born and raised Tarrant County resident I can confirm one you cross into Dallas county traffic and everything else gets different. Much prefer the western side of D/FW.
Pretty much spot-on, now if you want sweet tea, you gotta go to Chicken Express, Taco Casa, Raisin Canes & maybe even Chick-fil-A....all 4 will put you in a diabetic coma...js
Love Dallas... At least this county is smart enough to widen the loop to more than 2 lanes. (And then add the "Express" ripoff BS lanes later) Tarrant County has the same number of lanes around north loop 820 it did 30 years ago... Hope you enjoyed your visit. Clearly you ate well. :) Roll Tide!
Bless Dallas's heart, they don't have sweet tea because they wannabe bougie to fit in with the california locusts that have made their way here...Many people fool themselves into believing Texas isn't a southern state and most of those people who feel that way come from the heavily NORTH EASTERN-influenced "southern" states that can see D.C./NY from their backyard LOL. I always laugh at people who say I'm not southern as they have to look down SOUTH towards my state, what can I say, some people weren't born with the sense God gave a donkey.
Houston Tex-Mex?! Man, you best get your ass to San Antonio and see what you're missing on the Tex-Mex front... And Lockhart is only 2 hours away from SA, and once again, you will have the best brisket of your life... again and again...
Soooo, the Atlanta city planner and the Dallas city planner are either the same person....or sleeping with each other. Cause Atlanta thought it was a crime to have a road that was straight for more than....3 blocks.
Fort Worth native here. DFW has two halves, one of which is great, and the other is Dallas. We have slightly less traffic, Dickie’s Arena, the Stockyards, the occasional cowboy riding a horse on a sidewalk, and many more amazing things. I would also argue that our food is better(Heim and Gloria’s in particular), and Fort Worth is home to Joe T’s. And who can forget the Texas Rangers, which is our team, not Dallas’s. I also apologize as a properly raised Southerner for the lack of sweet tea, and I do not endorse those who only offer sugar packets, but I will be using them until I can get to the Carolinas
As an Ellis county native (just south of Dallas Co)…..we don’t like to go “up north” into Dallas. We like to stay in Waxahachie. We do, however, venture up north to visit Hurtados BBQ in Mansfield or Arlington because it has the BEST brisket I have EVER had. Gotta try it if you ever come back to DFW Matt!
@@aracnadei13 I don’t think I ever tried the Vault. It used to be by Meat Church….we get their seasoning all the time. So far some of the best BBQ in Ellis County we’ve had is Bluebonnet BBQ on 287 out towards ennis, their ribs are usually really good. My favorite elsewhere is Hurtado….the brisket is absolutely superb. I’d like to try Terry Blacks but haven’t gotten the chance yet.
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Careful, Mahomes is still their QB, you might summon him
Fort Worth, where the west begins. Dallas, where the east just kind of peters out.
@2:02 But *wait*!!!
*Where* did you have the best brisket of your life?!?
You didn't tell us! lol
I have some friends that live near Dallas and I want recommend it.
And if I ever head down to Dallas again, I don't want to get stuck going to Dicky's BBQ pit!
I want to have the best brisket of my life toooooo! :O
:D
Grew up in Dallas, went to ft worth when I was 14…first time
My brother used to live in Texas and I asked him if Texas was the South or the West. He just looked at me and said and I quote” Texas is … Texas”.
He gets it
Yes, yes we are.
There used to be commercials for Texas that said, 'where the south meets the west; it's like a whole 'nother country'.
@@deaconblooze1 I have no problem picturing that.
There is Texas and Not Texas. We prefer Texas.
Legitimately my favorite thing about videos with Texas in the title is the comments section where different regions of Texas talk shit on each other and then we band together to talk shit on other states.
Plus we all HATE Austin, or Eastern LA...
@@spacedredd Facts. DFW v Houston is friendly shit talking, but even Austin people talk shit on Austin. Commiefornians have gained a beach head.
@spacedredd 100%. My fave t-shirt says "Don't Austin my Texas". Lol😂
You are correct. Dallas and houston folks don't like each other in TX but the second we are in another state we are the best of friends because we're both Texan
@@spacedredd No we don't all hate Austin. Only those not from there 🙃
"Their road system was designed by throwing spaghetti at a wall" 😂😂😂 This was the description of Dallas roads I needed.
And he was being generous. Downtown Dallas is a nightmare to drive through. Even if you've been here for years, the constant construction means its always different every time. I had to drive from Collin County to Lemon and McKinney for work each day in the 90's when they had 75 closed down to 1 lane for construction in large parts. I was in a car with no AC or radio in the middle of summer. I was so thrilled to get transferred to a new store in Plano.
Fun fact: many of the roads in Texas were originally cow paths that followed the contours of the terrain. Not a joke, as someone likes to say! I'm 5th generation Texan...
Meet me at the corner of Turtle Creek and Turtle Creek.
It's accurate for all our cities. We don't truck with those squares and shit....
Worst roads in Texas, gotta be Houston, a living nightmare everytime I went there, and I went there a lot as a professional trucker.
A bumper sticker seen recently: Keep Austin Weird, Fort Worth Fun and Dallas 30 miles over there.
Austin ain't weird no more. California saw to that.
@@CheeseyBreezey Austin is plenty weird. You need to look harder. Don't blame it on California - Austin was never going to retain its obvious weirdness for very long with its music scene getting international attention. I don't think California was responsible for SXSW or ACL.
@@jameskaihatu6209 Austin was weird. Austin was affordable. Californians started moving by the truckful, Austin ain't affordable, and it ain't weird. Californians move it, vote for the same shit that made large swaths of California so prohibitively expensive and boring and then they go "Why's it all going to hell" when they did this, if it was just to themselves there would be no problem, but they keep coming to Texas and doing it to us and them.
As a Fort Worth native: like a good neighbor, Dallas can stay over there.
Truth. I moved to Fort Worth from Dallas just to escape Dallas and it was entirely worth it.
And Fort Worth can stay in Tarrant county.
I lived in Fort Worth pretty much my whole life. I only drove to Dallas 1 time. That was enough.
If y’all could both stop expanding that would be great!
@@Wickwatcher Now now - DFW is a good balance, Tarrant/Denton is for some, Dallas/Collin are for others...and the best part is they are both in Texas. :)
As a Mississippian that now lives in Fort Worth.....Texas is not the South....Texas is Texas. Also, as different as Dallas and Fort Worth are....we all agree that Austin is the lone crayon in a box of markers..
Austin is the out of state poeple. We just shove them in one location so we dont have to deal with them. Though Dallas is that way a bit too with all the wealth there
Accurate. Austin remains the People’s Republic of Austin and always will be
Austin is the crayon that was up someones nose and then crewed on before being chucked into the play box. Use at your own caution.
Lone crayon in a box of markers😂😂
You aren't joking, but Austin use to be just really cool town.
When I moved to DFW many years ago, I was told that Dallas is the western-most eastern city and Fort Worth is the eastern-most western city. I think that’s fitting.
And the eastern most sections from Mesquite, Garland, and beyond just get more and more...well east! Rockwall, more money, more guns. Not that it's a bad thing, It's just a thing.
Fort Worth is "Where the West Begins".
I'll have to remember that one....perfect😊
Fort Worths motto is "where the west begins". I can't decide if that means like.. if you go one more foot west, its no longer the South. Or if once you enter, its no longer the South. its.. confusing.
Since Fort Worth turned blue we’ll see how long Fort Worth stays Fort Worth.
Last time I was in Dallas and rented a car there was a CHANCE of snow/ice one of the days I was going to be there. The guy at the counter asked if I had ever driven in snow or ice before, since I had reserved a compact car. I assured him I had and I was not concerned. He straight faced said “ I’m going to upgrade you to a 4 whee drive SUV, no additional cost. YOU may know how to drive in that mess, but WE don’t. At least this may give you an opportunity to get out of the way so we don’t run into you.”
He wasn’t wrong, there were pileups on every non straight road I went on. I’m not even sure there was any actual ice. I think the thought of potential ice made everyone a worse driver.
Good looking out on his part. North Texans don't know how to drive on icy or snowy roads. I used to live in Chicago, so I learned. But, when the roads ice or snow-over, I stay off them for that reason, alone. I just wait for everything to melt 😉
I've lived in Dallas my whole life. Sadly, most folks around here don't know how to drive when the roads are dry and the sun is shining. The whole city shuts down at the thought of ice.
@@candace2117 I have the same experience in Kansas City. I'm also from the Chicago area. I learned to drive a stick shift heading up a snow packed hill.
Ya see, what had happened was, rain.
That's it, it didn't need to freeze, everything goes to shit when it rains.
That sounds like where I live in southwest Louisiana. It rains here a lot but you would think people have never driven on wet roads before.
There aren't a bunch of accidents it's just that the majority of people start driving 5 mph UNDER the speed limit and leave a gap big enough to fit an 18 wheeler between them and the vehicle in front of them.
They drive like they have no tread left on their tires.
In Texas we stop everything and head for bunkers if we get an half inch of snow on the ground but are only too happy to sit outside and watch tornados
So true, I also noticed in DFW when it rains everyone gets scared to drive
@@JMac85XIn Tyler, you better be scared to drive! Any time there's a sprinkle, it's bumpercars.😂
Amen to that!
@@sherryjoiner396 I'd rather be in Tyler than DFW, place is packed over here.
Also a spec of rain sends most true Texans indoors, with a day off of any outdoor work. EXCEPT road construction. Nothing can stop that. They’re like the ants
Regarding the roads in the Dallas area, the best quote I've heard: "I-35 is like Mickey Rourke -- the more work they have done, the worse it gets."
AMEN! Ugh!
Just think, when they finally finish it in 50 years we can see what it looks like.
Tell me I -35 will never change . Just stop by Austin TX
Yeah, I can't even tell the lines apart anymore lol 😅😐
@@Birdnerd1968 Nope, they'll just start over.
The road system in Dallas was actually designed by cattle. Cattle take the easiest route from Point A to Point B. The road engineers conceded that the cows were smarter than they were, and took the easy way out. End of story.
😂😂😂
Dallas road system is probably the best in Texas since a lot of it is a grid. Get off the road in Austin, Houston, or San Antonio and find an alternate route and you'll appreciate how bovine Dallas is. Lockhart, TX for BBQ.
Why San Antonio is essentially A circle with 2 ring roads TX 1604 and I410 than cut like a pie by I10, I35, I37, US281, and US90
"I'm pretty sure they created Dickey's BBQ to distract the out of towners from the really good spots. Very clever." This had me rolling 🤣
The sad thing is Dickey's used to to be solid until they started a massive expansion push in the early 00"s. Really fell off since then.
Yup, we ran Dickies out of town. The couldn't compete with the local smokers.
@@charlesbarry7479 I went there about 3 years ago, since it's close to home, and was very disappointed with the quality and the price. I remember enjoying it quite a bit in the 90's, but it has fallen off a lot since then.
When I want BBQ but don’t want to drive to the good places I go to Dickeys. They are “ok”
Dickies used to be really good until they got too big for their britches. Quality went way down. There was only one (Central Expwy) until the '80's then 2 more popped up in Plano, Tx (Coit Rd & DT Plano). After that, it went downhill.
Love it or hate it, Texas is unique. My response to people who say they “hate” Texas is: “Nah, you just visited the wrong area”😂
I've found that most people who hate Texas have never even been there.
That's every state. Except California that state just sucks.
@@dfreeman16s Yosemite is pretty freaking nice. Same with the Shasta and Lassen areas. And the High Sierras. As a Texan, man we have some great nature out west, and in the Hill Country, but California kills us on that stuff.
Dallas certainly has a lot of "wrong areas!"
We have little Germany in Texas. Fredericksburg and a few others.
Dickies is to BBQ what Olive Garden is to Italian.
Fun fact, my brother's wife grew up on Oak Cliff. As a teenager her sister was hit by a stray bullet. By the time the ambulance showed up to their house, they had already been in the ER for 20 minutes.
Yep, sounds about right. Oak cliff native here
Id argue its worse. It's like Olive Garden but in Italy. I don't understand how Dickies even exists.
@@Bones12x2 It used to be a decent option in areas that didn't have a local BBQ joint. I used to love abusing their ice cream machine to make coke floats on hot days when I worked in maintenance.
@@4e616d65 they don't have many where I grew up. First time I went to one was in college and I almost asked for a refund it was so trash.
@@Bones12x2 Dickies exists on nostalgia. I'm 72, and I at a Dickies when there was only one location, run by Roland Dickie on the east side of Dallas Central Expressway at Fitzhugh Avenue. The place had sawdust on the floor, seating for about 35, and you had to bring your own beer. There were 9 pits out back that could handle half of a steer each, because that's how much he catered.
When Dr. Pepper went national, they loaded a Braniff 727-200QC half full of cans of soda and half full of Roland Dickie's brisket and buns, and they gave away Dickie's BBQ sandwiches with cans of Dr. Pepper in Times Square New York at lunchtime. My father was the Braniff executive who sold the charter. Roland's grand kids and their cousins who have no memories of those days run the company now, and they're too much like John Neely Bryan.
"Dallas is just..... Dallas. And they REALLY want to keep it out of Ft. Worth." Truer words have never been spoken.😂
and
Ft.
Worth WANTS it that way!!
#welcometotexasnowgoongit
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True, but sadly these past 15years Fort Worth feels like it's turning into Dallas. 7th street is a perfect example.
As a born and bred Texan, this was hilarious! It is true Texas is neither South or West.. we're Texas ❤ and i totally agree with the commenter who said Austin is the crayon among the markers
That's what makes Austin . . . well, Austin.
Austin doesn't want to be a marker. We're very happy being the lone crayon, thankyouverymuch.
Fun fact, the soil (yes actual dirt) from the Eastern US and Western US meet between Dallas and Fort Worth. So east of D you get trees, W of FW you get scrub land. May-June = hail season. June-August = H*LL season. Come visit us October-Jan 15 for best first timer results. Y’all is the proper spelling. Ya’ll is for Houston thru Louisiana.
I learned so much from this post - or, it explained things that I kind of knew, but didn’t know why. Thank you!
You is singular, y'all is plural, and all y'all is for big groups or plural small groups.
West of, roughly, Midway Rd in Dallas homes have more foundation issues.
@@Maevelikeschampagne In English grammar punctuation, the apostrophe is used to indicate missing letters. Such as, you all is contracted into y'all. Which, by the way, is never used to indicate only one. Y'all is meant as plural, more than one. Used incorrectly makes me cringe. Like fingernails on a blackboard.
@@AKHWJ3ST Maybe that's true for English, but that's not what we're talkin' about. "All Y'all" is plural. "Y'all" can be used to apply to a lone person, a tree, a bunch of chickens, or a recalcitrant machine. "Y'all" is a universal term. "All Y'all" is slightly more specific and means the subject of the sentence, plus everyone they might meet before whatever event takes place.
"Y'all come on back, now!" means for you, or whomever is right there with you, is welcome to come back for a visit.
"All y'all had best stay out of the bayou." - everyone on that side of the county had best stay away from the bayou, there's probably alligators and/or turtles, if not a crazy neighbor or three.
Sorry if spoken language makes you cringe. Languages are fluid, dynamic, and constantly changing. You have to shift with them, or just try to be the lone voice of reason and the subject of gossip. (Had y'all heard of ol' @AKHWJ3ST? They went plum crazy over Mary-Beth calling her dog out of the chickens the other day!)
Fort Worth is where the West begins. Dallas is where the East peters out. - Will Rogers
So what about the area in between?
@@starventure Arlington is a suburb but that's just it--it's a literal city but no 'skysraper' so it's the middle ground and we got the Texas Rangers
@@starventure Purgatory.
"Their roads were made by throwing spaghetti at a wall" - God that is so true. Back in 2010 I took my nephews to Six Flags over Dallas.... To this day that trip was the only time where my TomTom GPS had a stroke.
You have a TomTom?
@@bobinchampions6411 *had* a TomTom.
Just in my small part of Texas ... Let's see 1171 is Main Street (West AND East) ... Cross Timbers Road .. and further out it's back to 1171. Then there's 2499 .. it's also The Dam Road ... 2499 .. Long Prairie Road... and International Parkway ... ALL are one and the same. Those are just the two main roads. I won't go into other roads as it is just as confusing.
Imagine the fun of navigating Dallas with a mapsco :D.
@@HollyMoore-wo2mh sounds a lot like loop 12 in Dallas.
Texas is the south and the southwest rolled into one. I’ve never been to a restaurant in Texas that did not have sweet tea.
Was there a few summers ago and a few places didn't have sweet tea
Having grown up in Dallas Fort Worth (DFW to outsiders) all of this can’t be more true. The one thing about the sweet tea you you have to realize is that Dr Pepper is King in Texas.
Dr Pepper is my drug of choice!! When I travel by car to other states I always take a 12 pack with me "just in case". I hate it when you ask for a Dr Pepper and they reply " We have Mr Pibb". They might as well just say something bad about my Mama.
@@janettamcgee8124 I know what you mean. People are always like “Mr. Pib and Dr. Pepper the same thing.”
I’m like “Have you ever tried the two they’re not the same!🤣”
@@janettamcgee8124I was recently in the Boston area and asked if they had Dr Pepper. She said the closest they had was Pepsi. I thought "In what world is Pepsi anywhere close to Dr Pepper?"
@@shannonberentsen1990 well wild cherry Pepsi is the closest in a pinch.
I’ve driven in about 30-35 states and traveled to over 2 dozen countries. Dallas drivers and Dallas highways stressed me out like no other place on this earth.
Conveniently, I-30 and I-35 are highways in Dallas that consistently show up in a list of top 10 deadliest highways in the US.
I don’t know. I’m from Dallas and Miami drivers are the absolute worst I have ever experienced, at least we have a system with a fast lane, down there they are just all over the place
Stay out of Houston.
@@Maevelikeschampagne The last decade or so they have really cut back on traffic enforcement. This has led to more reckless actions.
Houston make DFW look like a walk in a park. It's one big circle of highway, aggression 24 hours per day, shooting, tons of accidents. If you ever driven I10 Katy to Baytown is a war zone ;)
DFW: "Let's do a tourism ad."
Matt: "I'mma roast y'all reeaaal politely."
There's really nothing in this video Dallas or Ft. Worth would disagree with or find insulting.
@@monkeyflower3851 FACTS
Bless your heart, that's just the way southerners talk about... everyone. And everywhere. And everything.
As a lifetime Texas resident that lives about an hour east of Dallas. I totally agree with your assessment of Dallas. My favorite skyscraper there is the "pickle". If you know, you know.
Also, be safe on those roads. Texas overall has some crazy drivers, but even here in a more rural area, we consider Dallas driving to be advanced dodgeball, but with cars.
I'll drive in Dallas before Houston. Both have spaghetti roads tho
First Monday town?
@@drewpfeif5028 Man, I lived in Houston for 19 years. Driving in Dallas proper (not Fort Worth) is the craziest driving I've ever seen in my life. People going 90+ always and the most confusing road system. I think Houston has bad drivers, but Dallas has AGGRESSIVE drivers.
@@Jaster832I don't think canton is a secret
Try driving through Dallas in an 18-wheeler and get back to me on that.
As a truck driver who’s been through Dallas many many , please build a bypass with no on ramps to keep the locals off it.
Grew up in Arlington, and really, we're just happy to get the recognition that we are not actually in Dallas or Fort Worth... And many of the fun things you go to 'Dallas' to do, are actually in Arlington!
When Cowboys Stadium opened, Dallas people got mad at me because I said Dallas became a suburb of Arlington, lol.
Six Flags, Cowboys Stadium, and Rangers Stadium. Yeah, Dallas is a suburb, lol.
I know those stadiums have names, but I am used to the old names.
Arlington has the International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame. That place is awesome.
@@SkywarpZX Yeah, the Bowling Museum! You can easily locate it from a distance, is the building with the 40-foot bowling pin out front. 😁
It's still just 'The Ballpark' for me!
@@vtaylor21this is like saying NYC is a suburb of the meadowlands, sit down clown
As a Dallas area native, the way you feel about sweet tea there is the way I felt about Dr. Pepper in Alabama when I moved here.
Well I’ve never been to Alabama. I was never opposed to going until now.
No Dr. Pepper in Alabama? I couldn't go there.
@@claudialupper Oh it's here, just like you can find sweet tea in Dallas. It's just not available in all establishments, you have to ask and hope.
bill miller, i got to say after moving to san antonio that your bbq is god awful.
@@MFFL674 A lot can change in almost 300 miles. Distance-wise, that's a little like conflating Richmond and Philadelphia.
I appreciate that you didn't say the names of the good spots, don't want too many out of towners finding out where the good BBQ is.
We already figured it out. It’s Hard 8.
@@peileii😂😂
To an out of towner there is no "bad BBQ" in Dallas. It'll all be passable or they'd go out of business which means if they're tourists it'll still be the best they ever had. Even the Dickey's are better in Dallas than other places.
I agree....cuz it's in Kansas City not Texas
@@Nnelg1965 KC thinks BBQ is about sauce, ffs...
OMG. This was too funny. As a native Dallasite, you got this 110% right. You're awesome.
I live in Arlington and go to work in Fort Worth. We like to joke that Dallas is getting filled with so many people coming from California that you should now be called Dalifornia!
You should've definately maxed out the insurance! We're maniac drivers - Blue haired ladies in Mercedes get the right of way; it's legal to be armed..and remember that 35W doesn't actually run east/west🤠🤠
I-35a is a parking lot from Denton to Alvarado.
In a thousand years when archaeologists are digging through the area, freeways will still be under construction.
I-35W
And NorthWest Highway doesn’t run North or West 😂
As a resident of DFW for 20+ years… this is highly accurate.
Except neglecting to mention dallas drivers will merge into lanes with 0 regard if you are already there. They just cut over and expect you to move.
Sadly Agree. It Gets worse with each wave of out of state transfers we get. Last 5 years especially.
All the out of staters coming in and not realizing they need to *accelerate into the traffic stream* and they merge into 80 mph traffic at 55 mph... fkn Californians.
As it is in Detroit. If you ain’t going 90, get on the sidewalk.
Well, in defense, we used to signal and politely ask permission before merging, but we had to put an end to that. Now, if we signal, it’s just to provoke people into driving faster and tailgate the other guy. Seriously. I don’t care how much room you think you have, it will disappear the second you use your signal. They speed up to block!
We also used to predict when someone needed over, like construction, or an on ramp, and would leave these large gaps in front of us, but nope. Had to stop that too. People would just pass you, ride along the shoulder, and merge in front of the guy in front of you, causing them, you, and everyone else behind to make complete stops, rather than seamlessly merge using the space you provided them, with minimal braking.
Chicago does that too... so does that further the notion that Dallas isn't really southern? lol
Matt! So perfect! I'm native of Fort Worth, 67 years, and this was the MOST perfect definition of Dallas, not being Fort Worth, that I've ever heard! We are glad you enjoyed your visit! Come on back again.
As a Texan born in Dallas and raised in Grand Prairie (right next to Arlington) I want to disagree with the points made in this video… but I can’t… because then I would be lying…
Dallas is why I left the metroplex to go live on a 50 acre ranch outside of a small town in East Texas. Funny thing is, when I got here they hated me because I was from DFW… but I explained I left DFW because I hate DFW… didn’t do any good. Prices still went up by 50% until I officially had my address change on my DL and I was a member of a local church. Now I just have to remind my wife to stop telling people we’re from DFW….
After growing up with half my childhood spent with the Mixmaster, which always terrified any relatives visiting us, I married a boy and moved to Columbia, SC. They have the cutest little Malfunction Junction. It’s only 2 interstates and people aren’t breaking the sound barrier with their speed. Texas is just Texas. 💚 Love those Rangers!
The longest lasting thing on your car in Dallas - are the brakes - they never get used.
They redid the mixmaster like five years ago or so (finished it) took them a couple of years. It's even bigger and you can go even faster! If you're going westbound through the Canyon you can basically floor it as soon as you hit the ramp for either I-35E North or South because you get two lanes each direction and when you get to 35 (especially southbound) it's going at 80 mph so you better get moving or you'll get run over.
@@Jaster832 I will have to come back and try that thing out. If you come try Columbia, skip it if it’s raining. Rain destroys driving ability.
@@wendyduncan9084 The rain thing is true everywhere, though. I don't think I've ever been to Columbia, even though I was an OTR truck driver. It's kinda in a spot where unless it's your destination you take a different route and don't really pass through it.
If it's been quite a while since you've been through they also put in a toll road canyon that's 3 lanes each direction between I-35 and US-75 that is where a lot of street racing happens. Every time I go through it I'm doing 100 or so and someone passes me.
I'm 3 mi from malfunction junction right now
Fort Worth resident here! Been here 17 years and I love it. I would never, ever, ever want to live in Dallas. Dallas is home to the $30,000 millionaire -have a fancy car and fancy clothes but they still live at home with mom and dad.
Fun fact - Fort Worth is the 12th largest city in the country, but only the 5th largest city in Texas. That tells you how big Texas is. Fort Worth has amazing amenities like a big city, with a small town feel. The downtown is clean and safe and probably one of the best downtowns I’ve ever been in. And I’ve lived in a lot of states.
Stop it. Ft. Worth has their fair share of credit card millionaires too.
I came here to comment on the size of Fort Worth. Population will probably hit a million within a few years.
Thank you for loving on my city! My family has been part of Fort Worth since 1925 and there is no better place!
Ft. Worth has better museums.
Life long Texan here and from out country perspective, it's all the same. Millionaire bankers or millionaire drug store cowboys. Take your pick.
Concrete, concrete and more concrete.
Love Fort Worth. Great downtown with incredible restaurants. And Dallas???? I Iove Fort Worth!
A lack of sweet tea? That's unTexan!
Some of us have had to switch to sweetener
I'm a biker born and raised in Dallas...I ride as if I was a cat in a Korean restaurant...it all about the reflexes
Omg! I’m dead! 😂😂😂😂
My nephew was killed riding home on his bike. Be careful. It's not "if" it's "when".
Stay safe out there. My dad is a biker too but he stopped riding after an accident. He already had injuries he got when he was in the Army. He bent the rod that was in his leg.
Aww, you had the best brisket in Dallas. Bless your heart. The Hill Country is calling Matt.
Hill Country for the win! I miss the wind. (I moved away 😞)
Yep he needs to go to the Hill Country next t
Yeah, he missed the best parts. He needs to visit Lockhart and other central Texas hotspots.
I thought it was funny him standing in front of one of the many locations for a bad BBQ. Now, the original Black's in Lockhart, run by Terry's family, is a different story.
Agree, I kinda chuckled at that, poor Matt, bless his heart.
Lived in Dallas for 4 years until I moved my parents to Texas. Moved just west of Ft Worth to a much quieter area, but still close enough for entertainment. Been here for 24 years and love it here in Texas.
As far as Tex-Mex goes... It's San Antonio you got to go to for great Tex-Mex.
Agreed
Lubbock / west Texas has some great restaurants as well.
Highly accurate, I hate driving through there. You either do 100 or turn into a cloud of mist on the front of some dude's F350.
Matt i wish i knew you were visiting. Missed opportunity. So my saying is people from fort worth sometimes go to dallas. People from dallas never go to fort worth and everyone goes to Arlington. Also fort worth is better. We win the iron skillet every year over dallas.
Yeah, but the dingbat athletic director from my beloved TCU has done away with it. He thinks that TCU needs to play better teams than SMU so no more Iron Skillet game. So much for tradition. He jinxed us. After his proclamation TCU didn't get a bowl game and SMU did.
@@janettamcgee8124 SMU is also going to the ACC
When I was growing up in Dallas in the 80's and 90's, it was very much the south. Now that its been thoroughly been invaded by california, not any more. Its sad.
I agree with you on that. The town I live in ( suburbs of Dallas)built a factory that employees alot of the town. Everywhere I drive there are out of state licence plates and moving vans. They have added 3 new huge subdivisions and expanded 2 more. Houses and stores are going up like crazy. The majority of plates are California,Louisiana, and Minnesota.
I was born in San Antonio and raised in Dallas... Texans usually refer to folks from Dallas as the "yankees of Texas". It's so bad, I have zero accent whatsoever. You were 100% spot on, and that video was about 30 minutes too short.
As a Dallas adjacent native (Carrollton), I can testify that Matt is 100% accurate in his descriptions. As to whether Dallas is southern, I don't think we really are. I mean, we are geographically in the south but not so much southern. Really, most of us in Texas, especially old timers, consider Dallas, and in general Texas, as our own unique place that tries to take the best parts of all the cultures that live here, put it in a big ol' blender and set it on puree.
.....Which ...uhh...which absolutely obliterates any concept of the idea of truly welcoming and turds out their own
sickening definition of a clearly Stepford Wives sort of life.
Feel free to visit but please understand that if you would like to live here you WILL understand and you WILL Believe.......
or you WILL be asked to leave....Immediately.....
Oh...Sorry....That would be Football and Steer and all that goes with it. ~ Live it or Leave ~
If you Read that and swelled up with a truly unjustified amount of Pride ?
YOU are a texan and that is NOT a compliment.
We call it the city for a reason. Fort Worth on the other hand... is a tourist city for Stock Yards
Dallas really wants to be east coast
It's funny that while watching this video, I'm wearing a t-shirt that reads "American by birth, Southern by choice and Texan by the Grace of God!" Great video as always, Matt.
As a person from Fort Worth, thank you for realizing that Dallas is it's own thing
Throwing spaghetti at a wall...🤣😂🤣 Very accurate description.
We've had Spaghetti Junction here in the Atlanta region for decades. It really is quite a mess. You have to wonder about the people that came up with these ideas. At least with Atlanta it makes some sense since they were building these Interstates going through a massively growing city. It looks like the area in Dallas wasn't that overgrown with buildings so I'm not sure why they did what they did.
I love Ft. Worth! We are in a tiny town in the Texoma area but love going down to Ft. Worth whenever possible.
Thank you for the laughs. I needed them. Last month was not a good month. We found out that I have a tumor on my left temporal lobe. Please keep us in your prayers. Thank you in advance. God Bless.
Praying for you, Mrs. Trumble! You got this!
@alostrich thank you, Matt.
I have prayed for you. May God bless and keep you.
@@StAlphonsusHasAPosse thank you. May God bless you and keep you, too.
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Dallas born and raised here and one of the things I'll always love is how almost every sub city/community is how unique they are from each other
Come to San Antonio. It will make you rethink that tex mex comment
Accurate.
Dallas has good barbecue if you want to pay for it. Also, kudos for calling out Dickey's, the most inconsistent chain in Texas because they are a franchise that may be good for awhile, but then change owners, and then suck.
This is the most spot on video of the DFW metro area I have ever seen. Very well done, great job
Fort worth's slogan is "where the west begins". Dallas has the cotton bowl, fort worth has the stockyards. We have a long history of culturally and economically existing right on the border of the south and the west.
For those that don't know, fort worth is west of dallas. So the divide is between the two cities.
Very good 😂😂! As a Fort Worth native & longtime Arlington resident, you pretty much nailed it!
But I do have to add: Joe T's is proudly located in Fort Worth, and Ripley's is actually in Grand Prairie. And of course Arlington is now the home for the Dallas Cowboys - because apparently we wanted to share Dallas's misery.
Just blame it on Jerry for building Jerry World in Arlington.
'Fort Worth is where the west begins, and Dallas is where the east peters out." - Will Rogers
Do not go east of 35 west.
As a person who has lived in Fort Worth and Arlington for 45 years this is all 100% accurate.
Ripley Museum is not in Arlington. It's in GP. So 99% accurate.
@@iamlegend5190 You are right!
@@iamlegend5190Indeed, but it's on the border driving on I-30, so I'm not suprised he got confused
@@popemon7608you right. I get it. I think that may be the only GP exit on 30.
One correction-Houston is NOT where you go for Tex-Mex. That’s San Antonio’s purview!
This is facts. Lifetime Dallasite and Dallas is just Dallas.
It is a major mixing pot as wiser people in NYC/Chicago and LA have moved here long ago.
As well as anyone from Arkansas that can spell (like my mother).
Since people here are willing to pay insane prices, you can find the best of everything.
Just be prepared to pay top dollar and never retire.
Wiser is not the description I would use......
@@mattnatwhitt5082Most of them moved at a time they could buy a mini mansion for 400K cash. They often had that in equity form their Chicago/NYC flats or even Long island homes. And ditched major city taxes.
Unfortunately, that "bargain" lifestyle is no more. Dallas is very, very expensive now.
This is single-handedly the best succinct (and accurate, with humor) review I've ever watched about DFW. Everything was spot on! I will be sharing this video immediately
Dickie's Barbecue is to barbecue establishments as gas station sushi is to sushi restaurants in Tokyo.
Sounds delicious.
But if you live in an area with no bbq at all, it's nice
@@thejohnbeck if I lived in an area with no barbecue restaurants at all (like Scotland, for example) I would make my own barbecue. I guarantee you that your worst attempt at making your own barbecue would be better than Dickie's. I'm pretty sure they boil their ribs first.
@@mikehodges6598 My St Louis roomie boiled his ribs in chicken stock ahead of the grill and they fabulous... are you saying the boil is a short cut to spending hours over a hot smoky smoker tending those? Ok.
Ar..ling..ton? OH! You mean Jerryworld: The city sized parking lot that is inconvenienced with things like homes, businesses, and humans!
Texas is larger than most European countries (or most of Europe, for that matter). Texas doesn't need to be lumped in with "The South." If anything, The South is an addendum to Texas.
Mhm, Texas is around 150,000 sq. km. bigger than France, about twice the size of Germany. And Texas is just one state, and not even America's largest. The US is ENORMOUS.
I've read every single article of secession that was written at the start to the Civil war. You should read Texas's version and compare it to the others. As a Georgia native, with family roots here back to the 1790's. I find it particularly offensive when I go out west and continually get asked "Are you from Texas". You go right ahead and be Texas, but you aren't hurting any Southerners feelings by not wanting to be considered Southern, and in no way are we an "addendum", to you. I'll gladly stay in my beloved Appalachia.
@@getinit56 Dude. It was a joke. Take a deep breath and relax. 😂
@@asdisskagen6487 Youre right. lol
@@getinit56several of my Texas ancestors fought for the South in the war of northern aggression. We're firmly Southern here in rural Texas! The big Texas cities have filled up with out-of-staters that don't know anything about our legacy and heritage
El Paso is the armpit of Texas, Houston is closer to the butthole...anything South of the Hill Country is just northern Mexico, and Dallas...well most accurate description is Los Angeles, but further east.
Dallas native here, and if folks want to say we're not part of the South, we're OK with that. Just do not say we are not part of Texas. Them's fightin' words, right there I tell you what!
If tomorrow morning I wake up, flat broke in Dallas
I won't care, 'cause at least I'll know I'm home!
Dallas roads are terrible. If you miss your freeway exit, you end up in Oklahoma.
Houston roads make sense; it's like a giant spider web. A spider web filled with psychotic drivers who speed up in the rain and carry weapons, but at least it's easy to find places
Most accurate description of DFW I've seen from someone not from Texas.
"It's Texas, just do what you want." (With one caveat - stay out of people's way as best you can.)
"This is Dallas, and we're crazy." 635 and I-20 are NASCAR and it's fantastic. If you're uncomfortable going 80 mph and still having people weaving traffic and passing you then stay away.
Brisket is a way of life, Joe T's is the gold standard of Mexican food (order the "la familia" and skip the menu).
Texas is not the south, we are not the west. We are Texas. We have our own regions, West Texas, East Texas, Deep East Texas, South Texas, North Texas, and Hill Country/Central Texas.
East coast, west coast and TEXAS🤠
@@thomastune776 Texas and "Ain't Texas" =)
Joe T’s is the Tex-Mex for the out of towners
@@Jaster832 😂
My ancestors and those of plenty of other people around here fought and died for the Confederacy, and they sure thought this was part of the South. Get out away from Dallas and visit some civil war era cemeteries and small Texas towns and your perspective will quickly change
Driving in Dallas is a sport and an adventure no one ask for or wanted. Why do they build roads on top of each other!? I swear Dallas is half bridges half road construction.
I'm so glad to see your own channel doing well. Have been recommending you from the "Bless Your Rank" days, way back when. To me, when it comes to family-friendly comedy, there are Jim Gaffigan and Matt Mitchell! Hope you get your own Netflix special soon!
As a Dallas resident, we're more city folk, and Fort Worth is the Yee Haw side. Also, go fast or go home cuz our roads are like Mad Max: Fury Road
Fort Worth is Southern, Dallas isn't anymore.
Dickies BBQ in Texas is like the worlds best troll. I have no idea how they make any money.
😂 so accurate.
- Deep Ellum has some cool stuff but it's also kinda scary, especially at night.
- Highland Park, 100%. I wandered in accidentally one time and felt extremely out of place and left right away.
- Joe T's is hyped up a lot. We weren't impressed when we went 🤷🏻♀️
- um yes, the brisket is amazing here.
- sweet tea. Oh no! Where did you go that didn't have sweet tea?!
Highland Park at night can be scary, because you lamp posts like you’re in a Harry Potter movie 😂 (And they don’t have Visible Street Signs!)
"Designed by throwing spaghetti at a wall" -- as someone who had to commute there every day for ten years, all I can say is SO TRUE -- and even more so now than it used to be. Also fun: try having to drive on that elevated spaghetti in the winter. Subzero wind chill + hint of moisture = instant black ice on levels you've never seen, and I've driven in the North, tyvm.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣As a native Texan, living in VA, you hit the nail on the head bro. If you are still there you may want to check out some of the area's "MULTI MILLION $$$" high school football stadiums. YEP, they have a few of those out there. Start with Allen. I think it is the less expensive of those at $60 Mill. Enjoy!!!
DeSoto and Duncanville too. My husband, when he first saw them, asked me what college was around.
@@mslisadianemorse Forgot about those two, how much was their's? Doesn't McKinney also have one that is around $70 Mill?
@@mslisadianemorse I forgot about those two, what was the price on those? Isn't there one in McKinney that cost about $70 million?
Texas God guns and freedom baby YEEEEEEHAAAAW 🤠
You are Spot On!😂
I've lived in Dallas area off and on the last 20 years. ( I wish I were somewhere else)
So funny!!🤣🤣
Dallas is not the south. It's a Texas-themed version of Denver or Kansas City, aka the Great Plains.
The 'South' is anywhere where you can find proper grits and where people call all soft drinks 'Coke'. That excludes the vast majority of the Dallas area.
Exactly. It's a caricature of what Hollywood thinks the South is...
Also, Dallas is southern Oklahoma.
Yes, we in Ft Worth want to keep Dallas in Dallas!
As a resident on a suburb of Dallas(Red Oak) we would like to keep Dallas out of our town too but it's creeping in more and more each day.
As funny (and ACCURATE) as the video is, OMG, the COMMENTS! Y'all! LOLOLOLOL!
Thanks for the giggles!
(Fort Worth here.)
Dallas has hockey. Texas doesn’t have hockey.
Dallas hasn't technically had football since The Cowboys moved from the Cotton Bowl 50 years ago. Now, they don't even play in Dallas County. They play in Tarrant County where Fort Worth is. So there.
@@janettamcgee8124 I’m a Fort Worth resident too😁. Not a big Dallas fan though.
Texas has tons of hockey. Dallas just has the stars , tons of beer league, 2 pro roller teams, the minor affiliate team in Austin. Dallas does have the most shut down and ran down rinks in the state though.
As a local Dallasite your video made me smile! Your comment on Dickey’s is true. I went there as a teen but found better joints as an adult. I love you Intrinsic BBQ! Yes I know ur in Garland, but that’s close enough! 😂🤣❤️
Houstonian here. All y'all Dallasites can just stay up yonder, thank you very much! ;-)
Not like we want to go to Houston anyway
@@jadab1782 I know, I was just funnin' ya! ;-)
No one wants to live in Houston, but you Houstonians.
So yall stay down there please
@@Seven_Sinzz Bwahaha!
If I ever get homesick for humidity and mosquito bites, I'll head back to Houston.
When people say "The South" they really mean the southeast. Louisiana (Though New Orleans is its own thing) through most of Florida (the south of Florida is so full of retired New Yorkers, it's part of the north), with a debatable northern border. Texas is weird. We think of it more as the west, but it could be 3 states between the east (which is more southern) the north (which is more midwestern) and the west, (which is definitely western). Dallas seems to fall so smack dab in the middle that it's all 3. But also Dallas is so densely urban that it's also just a little bit......dare I say it.....northern.
That works for everybody else in the DFW Metroplex, too. We would like to keep Dallas out of Fort Worth, Irving, Arlington, Plano, Hurst...... so what you maybe don't grok as an out of towner is that CITY OF DALLAS just looooooves to take mad credit for everything that happens in DALLAS AND TARRANT COUNTIES, while continuously failing to do basic shit like fix the potholes.
So yeah, Dallas is a .... six-letter word round these parts. We interact with it when we must, but ONLY when we must. And it's been forty years since CITY of Dallas was the region's growth engine.
It's all the same. Dallas and Irving? Just the same concrete in different zip code
Absolutely no lies detected! Love living in DFW, except for the never-ending road construction. All of the roads, all at the same time!
Yep...nailed it. As a born and raised Tarrant County resident I can confirm one you cross into Dallas county traffic and everything else gets different. Much prefer the western side of D/FW.
It gets closer together but nobody lets that slow them down. 🤠
Pretty much spot-on, now if you want sweet tea, you gotta go to Chicken Express, Taco Casa, Raisin Canes & maybe even Chick-fil-A....all 4 will put you in a diabetic coma...js
Love Dallas... At least this county is smart enough to widen the loop to more than 2 lanes. (And then add the "Express" ripoff BS lanes later) Tarrant County has the same number of lanes around north loop 820 it did 30 years ago... Hope you enjoyed your visit. Clearly you ate well. :) Roll Tide!
They're finally widening 820 from Euless to NRH so it'll be ready in about 4 years.
@@Caked5 Probably need to add a zero to the end of that 4...
Bless Dallas's heart, they don't have sweet tea because they wannabe bougie to fit in with the california locusts that have made their way here...Many people fool themselves into believing Texas isn't a southern state and most of those people who feel that way come from the heavily NORTH EASTERN-influenced "southern" states that can see D.C./NY from their backyard LOL. I always laugh at people who say I'm not southern as they have to look down SOUTH towards my state, what can I say, some people weren't born with the sense God gave a donkey.
Hahaha welcome to the DFW
Houston Tex-Mex?! Man, you best get your ass to San Antonio and see what you're missing on the Tex-Mex front... And Lockhart is only 2 hours away from SA, and once again, you will have the best brisket of your life... again and again...
Soooo, the Atlanta city planner and the Dallas city planner are either the same person....or sleeping with each other. Cause Atlanta thought it was a crime to have a road that was straight for more than....3 blocks.
If only Atlanta was Dallas, instead of the worst features of New York City and LA. And if Atlanta was on the surface of one of the Martian moons.
Atlanta also thinks it is a crime to name streets anything other than Peachtree.
@@craigsnelson true, so true.
Fort Worth native here. DFW has two halves, one of which is great, and the other is Dallas. We have slightly less traffic, Dickie’s Arena, the Stockyards, the occasional cowboy riding a horse on a sidewalk, and many more amazing things. I would also argue that our food is better(Heim and Gloria’s in particular), and Fort Worth is home to Joe T’s. And who can forget the Texas Rangers, which is our team, not Dallas’s. I also apologize as a properly raised Southerner for the lack of sweet tea, and I do not endorse those who only offer sugar packets, but I will be using them until I can get to the Carolinas
As an Ellis county native (just south of Dallas Co)…..we don’t like to go “up north” into Dallas.
We like to stay in Waxahachie.
We do, however, venture up north to visit Hurtados BBQ in Mansfield or Arlington because it has the BEST brisket I have EVER had.
Gotta try it if you ever come back to DFW Matt!
Shame we lost Vault to Ennis.
@@aracnadei13 I don’t think I ever tried the Vault. It used to be by Meat Church….we get their seasoning all the time.
So far some of the best BBQ in Ellis County we’ve had is Bluebonnet BBQ on 287 out towards ennis, their ribs are usually really good.
My favorite elsewhere is Hurtado….the brisket is absolutely superb.
I’d like to try Terry Blacks but haven’t gotten the chance yet.
Thank y'all for the nfo.
Red Oak here, and you’re correct! I’ll stay south, thank you very much.
@@mslisadianemorse 👍
Sigh. Live in Fort Worth, drive TO Dallas for work, only to dive PASSED Dallas to do my job. SMH