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What is the differance between chicken fried steak and chicken fried chicken?

Is chicken fried steak just steak fried like chicken? Is chicken fried chicken just fried chicken> if so, why not just say fried chicken.

Public Comments

1. Who knows? Crazy, huh?
2. It's exactly as the name suggests. Chicken fried steak is battered and fried beef. Chicken fried chicken is a flattened and perforated chicken breast, battered and fried.
3. chicken fried chicken is boneless skinless cutlets not whole pieces of chicken as fried chicken would be.
4. one dead cow one dead chicken
5. One is beef, the other is chicken. They say "chicken fried chicken" because the meat is "cubed" (flattened and pierced) and then fried. The key here is the use of the term "chicken fried". If they just call it "fried chicken", people would confuse it with chicken parts that are breaded and fried whole.
6. how do you chicken fry a steak ?
7. 'Chicken Fried' is a southern term for the technique of cooking which requires that a meat is battered before it is fried. Therefor, you can 'Chicken Fry' a boneless piece of chicken, a piece of steak, or any other meat for that matter. 'Chicken Fried Chicken' is not to be confused with fried chicken, which implies that the chicken is bone-in.
8. Most people just say fried chicken. Chicken fried steak is usually made from cubed steak. Dip it in milk, then flour then egg then in bisquick or bread crumbs.. It's often served with with white gravy and fries.