Cowboy caviar, or Texas caviar, was first served in Texas in the 1940s by a lady named Helen Corbitt. Helen worked for the Houston Country Club and served it to her guests for the New Year's Eve party. Black-eyed peas are often served on NYE for good luck. Later it was served at the Driskill Hotel in Austin, Texas, and it's there, they named it Texas Caviar as a joke to real caviar. Reference- "Texas Caviar." Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 21 Dec. 2020, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_caviar.