Nobody knows exactly how long ago a marbled and tender boneless short-loin steak came to be known across the United States as a New York strip. Everybody agrees, though, that the nomenclature wasn’t the least bit controversial until last Friday, when Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick of Texas proposed a new name: the Texas strip.

New Yorkers are searing mad over an absurd bid by Texas to rename the New York strip steak. The beef between the two states was heating up Monday, with New York meat purveyors getting rubbed the wrong way by the Lone Star State’s proposal to call the steakhouse-favorite beef cut the “Texas strip.