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Happy National Chicken Fried Steak Day! Hell Yes or Heavens No? (Original Post) Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2025 OP
Heavens no! LoisB Oct 2025 #1
😥 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2025 #2
Hell Yeah! DinahMoeHum Oct 2025 #3
☺️ Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2025 #16
Maybe if it was ground turkey. multigraincracker Oct 2025 #4
😋 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2025 #17
I can't handle the duality PikaBlue Oct 2025 #5
Schrodinger's chicken ? Layzeebeaver Oct 2025 #10
I love this response! PikaBlue Oct 2025 #11
Thank you!!! Layzeebeaver Oct 2025 #12
🤔 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2025 #18
It's not chicken or even a steak you would grill TexLaProgressive Oct 2025 #48
Hell no. markodochartaigh Oct 2025 #6
😬 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2025 #19
Count me in!!! Layzeebeaver Oct 2025 #7
🤗 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2025 #20
Yes! Yes! Yes! PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2025 #8
😋 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2025 #21
Heavens no! Vegetarian/vegan here. Sogo Oct 2025 #9
😊 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2025 #22
fuck!!! no ironman99 Oct 2025 #13
😬 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2025 #23
Before I turned vegetarian, this was the only way I wanted to eat steak. Beef is just bland and boring otherwise. eppur_se_muova Oct 2025 #14
😬 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2025 #24
not a fan of gravy from a 20 pound bag nt msongs Oct 2025 #15
😬 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2025 #25
If it was a good steak, they wouldn't be chicken frying it. marble falls Oct 2025 #26
🤔 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2025 #32
Oh, yeah! MiHale Oct 2025 #27
🤗 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2025 #33
Very tasty, but not healthy. tblue37 Oct 2025 #28
😋 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2025 #34
The good ones are worth going out of your way for. cloudbase Oct 2025 #29
😁 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2025 #35
Yum. ms liberty Oct 2025 #30
😊 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2025 #36
Lunch! (n/t) PJMcK Oct 2025 #31
😋 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2025 #37
Ohhh yes! SARose Oct 2025 #38
🤗 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2025 #40
Of course! justaprogressive Oct 2025 #39
😬 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2025 #41
Growing up, it wasn't referred to as "chicken fried steak" in our home. Paladin Oct 2025 #42
😊 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2025 #43
Used to love this, dh still does, mwmisses4289 Oct 2025 #44
😥 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2025 #45
Hell... dlilafae Oct 2025 #46
😁 Floyd R. Turbo Oct 2025 #47

DinahMoeHum

(23,409 posts)
3. Hell Yeah!
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 02:00 PM
Oct 2025

In fact tonight, I'm making a variation of CFS (Pork Schnitzel), with potato pancakes and sweet/sour red cabbage.

PikaBlue

(459 posts)
5. I can't handle the duality
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 02:11 PM
Oct 2025

It's either chicken or steak and I'm not certain which one it is. 😋

TexLaProgressive

(12,694 posts)
48. It's not chicken or even a steak you would grill
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 03:58 PM
Oct 2025

It's a fairly tough piece of meat pounded in submission, battered and deep fried in the manner of fried chicken.

It's a good way to use a less desirable piece of meat for those who do hard physical labor.

I suppose you'd be more comfortable with the euphemism country fried steak.

My. German descent great grandmother and grandmother would use the edge of a heavy plate to tenderize and then prepare that beef like Wiener Schnitzel.

There was very little veal available in late 29th early 20th century Texas. People make do with what they have.

markodochartaigh

(5,162 posts)
6. Hell no.
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 02:21 PM
Oct 2025

For me chicken fried steak falls in the category of "I don't even understand why dogs would eat this".

Sorry.

eppur_se_muova

(41,160 posts)
14. Before I turned vegetarian, this was the only way I wanted to eat steak. Beef is just bland and boring otherwise.
Sun Oct 26, 2025, 04:55 PM
Oct 2025

Never understood why people are so crazy about beef. My dad was that way. Maybe growing up with that, and a refusal to enjoy more adventurous foods, turned me against it. I was living on a shoestring budget in grad school so used to get Wendy's cheapest meal for lunch -- a cheeseburger. Got so sick of the taste of hamburger I haven't wanted to taste it since. Plus I figured out all the real flavor and texture is in the sauces and toppings -- you can use sauces and toppings on anything else, and never miss the 'plastic* meat'.






*Literally plastic, in the original sense of the word: capable of being molded into shape. Added beef fat smooths the texture of ground beef, allowing it to be extruded from nozzles into pre-formed patties which hold their shape better than pure beef when cooked.

cloudbase

(6,178 posts)
29. The good ones are worth going out of your way for.
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 06:37 AM
Oct 2025

You can resole your boots with the bad ones.

 

Paladin

(32,354 posts)
42. Growing up, it wasn't referred to as "chicken fried steak" in our home.
Mon Oct 27, 2025, 10:53 AM
Oct 2025

We simply called it "round steak," because that was the only way that cut of beef was used at our place.

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