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[Justin C]

"What are chicken fried steaks?"

I remember submitting the following post when the CFS topic came up on SI awhile back ...

The July issue of Texas Highways magazine has an 8-page spread
on the Chicken-Fried Steak. It includes such eateries as the
Broken Spoke in Austin, the Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo
and Clark's Outpost in Tioga. Also Rudy Lechner's Restaurant
in Houston which "serves an Austrian version of CFS that eschews
cream gravy in favor of cheese sauce."

One of the restaurant owners says that some out-of-state customers
aren't familiar with CFS -- "A few ask for it medium-rare, and
we have to explain that it just doesn't work that way."