Texas Ranger
Submitted by: Craig on Jul 2nd 2008
I ate there in the 50s untill the 70's and my father and grandfather before me, when the restaurant was located around the corner from the Calderon Theater which is also gone today.
By the end of the 60's I had attempted to duplicate the chile about 50 times without success. One day while eating something else I tasted that flavor that won me over at the Rangers. I went home and remade my chile with those ingredients and it was perfect. I then went to the Texas Ranger in Freeport and ordered a small bowl of chili, I ate it and then poured my Chili from a small hot thermous into the bowl,I brought it up to the grandson doing the cooking, whom I knew from his first day. I told him there was something wrong with the chile and he said, impossible.He tasted my chile and said, there's nothing wrong with this, its perfect. Thats when I new I finally fiqured out a recipe that closely duplicated his.
Owe, and almost forgot, I also figured out the secret sause on the bugers called "specials" and have injoyed all this all these years.
Thanks to all the wonder people from the families that have owned and worked there.

Reply #1 submitted by: lover of the texas ranger on Aug 3rd 2008
I grew up eating "specials" and could never figure out the sauce.
If you've figured it out,let me know.