Another name for promethazine w/ codeine; aka barre, lean, sizzurp, oil, purple stuff, Memphis mud, drank, purple jelly, etc. Real popular in H-Town; mix it up with some Sprite, crushed ice, and jolly ranchers, and get ta sippin'...

When you eat dirt for the first time and leave your family to build a shack in the woods

The term "Texas Tea" was originally used to describe oil, and was popularized by the hit 1960s television show, The Beverly Hillbillies: "Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea."

Today, the term can also be found in your local bar as it represents the name of a mixed drink, also by the same name:

Texas Tea:

2 oz Tequila
2 oz Rum
2 oz Vodka
2 oz Gin
2 oz Bourbon Whiskey
2 oz Triple Sec
2 oz Sweet and Sour Mix
Coca-Cola

West texas light crude oil, esp. if discovered by a hillbilly named Jed.

Historically speaking, "texas tea" was an anarchonistic definition of oil during the oil rush in Texas. "Black gold" is a synonym.

I believe it was phrased very early on in 20th century pop culture.

Slang term for crude oil, which is a resource located in Texas as well in other parts of the world.

Oil. Crude Oil to be specific. First made popular when there were major oil strikes in Beaumont Texas. Then made popular on the television show The Beverly Hillbillies