Some things are sacred: the seared fat on a T-bone steak, gravy on mashed potatoes, and the Texas flag flying proudly over Texas Roadhouse. But when Robi Zwiener (@robi_zwiener) rolled up to her local Roadhouse, she found something distressingly wrong.
She doesn’t mince words or bury the lede: “What kind of b—- is this? We’re at Texas Roadhouse, and their flag is upside down,” she says.
Is The Flag Really Upside Down?
According to Texas Monthly, there are two correct ways to fly the Texas flag. “When displaying the flag horizontally, the white stripe must be on top, with the blue stripe to the observer’s left.” Then, when the flag is displayed vertically, “the blue stripe should be uppermost, and the white stripe should be to the observer’s left.”
Texas In Distress?
An upside-down flag has meaning, too. That same article notes an upside down flag means distress. So of course, of the 726,600 viewers, more than a few users weigh in with what exactly could be the cause of Texas Roadhouse’s distress—like maybe the location ran out of its coveted bread rolls.
Other viewers shared this was a clear telltale that the location isn’t in Texas. This may be surprising to some, but the first Texas Roadhouse wasn’t opened in Texas…