> > We also had lunch at Chili's -- it's rather hard to get to up here and we haven't been to it at all since we moved up here. Anyway, we had lunch at Chili's and saw on the menu -- hold me back -- "Country-Fried Steak". Which is Northern for "Chicken-Fried Steak". Which is the national dish of Texas.
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> In the April 30, 2001, issue of Time magazine, there was an interesting article on the South -- the Southern mentality, Mississippi's state flag, and chauvinism for a country that hasn't existed for over 120 years.
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> The author (a Yankee) kept referring to chicken-fried steak as "Confederate-Fried Steak".
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> -Faux "it was a rather interesting article" Pas

As far as the Time magazine article is concerned, we always get a laugh when someone from the north takes a quick trip through the South and suddenly knows all about it. Believe me, it takes decades to know any region.

As for the steak, I never heard it called anything but country fried steak until restaurants started using "chicken fried" thinking it sounded good on the menu. Country fried steak is a long-time standard southern dish.
But I refuse to eat anything with "chicken" attached to the name. Call it by it's correct name and it's one of my favorites.

And I've never seen wings on a buffalo, either.
How"my 2 cents worth"ard