• ummthatguy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    We just call it fried chicken. I should know, I’m Mr. Manager. That being said, looks great and I want all of that.

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      1 year ago

      I think it’s due to being cooked like chicken fried steak not sure how regional it is.

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        1 year ago

        But chicken fried steak is called that because it’s fried in the style of fried chicken.

        “Chicken fried like a steak that was fried like chicken” is very needlessly redundant.

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        1 year ago

        It’ll be a flattened or cubed cutlet, not a natural piece of the bird, means you can fry in a pan with a little oil and not a big pot or fryer.

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          1 year ago

          Yeah but the gravy and mashed potatoes make it what it is as well. This is the root dish for the name.

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken-fried_steak

          I’m not trying to argue, just trying to explain ops naming choice not just calling it pan fried chicken with black pepper white gravy and mashed potatoes.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve always took bone-in deep fried chicken as fried chicken. This was a boneless breast fired in a pan, which I understood to be chicken fried chicken. Can’t remember where I read that though.

      • ummthatguy@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I get the clarification. Just wanted to make an Arrested Development joke and it turned into a whole semantic argument. Alas, as Michael tells Tobias: “There’s gotta be a better way to say that.”

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    I still don’t understand why people pour gravy or sauce over fried meat. Doesn’t it get soggy?

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      1 year ago

      Doesn’t get too mushy if you eat in a timely fashion. There’s also enough crispiness from the underside.

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      1 year ago

      It sort of does but it’s not really crispness you’re going for in a chicken fried steak (or chicken). It’s just downright hearty and rich and so dang good. Have you had it before?

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        1 year ago

        it’s not really crispness you’re going for in a chicken fried steak (or chicken).

        You stop your filthy lies right this instant.

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          1 year ago

          Hehe fair enough. I’m craving some chicken fried chicken or steak hardcore now

      • EHEC@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I haven’t tried chicken fried steak yet. But when I make Schnitzel or Backhendl crispiness is key. Whether or not pouring sauce over fried meat is ok seems to be a regional issue here in the German-speaking parts of the world. There are Reddit and Lemmy communities collecting “crimes” against Schnitzel (r/schnitzelverbrechen).

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          1 year ago

          Chicken fried steak or chicken is just American schnitzel really.

    • SoonerMagic@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      No real recipe. I dry-brined some boneless breasts overnight. Then did a traditional flour, egg, flour dredge and fried in a pan with a little oil. I added some hot sauce to the egg and some spices to the last flour stage. Cheers!

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    You can tell someone is American when they call milky flour “gravy”

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      White gravy, often flavored with chicken stock and herbs, sometimes pepper, is particularly popular in the south, and it slaps. Its the same kind of gravy you might have with biscuits and gravy (these ‘biscuits’ being closer to scones than hard shortbread or tea biscuits) To use a brown gravy in the same scenario would be a travesty, thats mainly reserved for roasted red meats.

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        This is “gravy” in the same way American squirt cheese is “cheese” in that certain people will call it that. But its categorically a completely different thing.