Friday, May 15, 2009

Ever Heard of Chicken Fried Steak?

Yesterday on my way home from work I was listening to some talk radio on Sirius XM.  One of the hosts was talking about his recent trip down to Texas (I believe the show is located in the New York area).  I didn't catch it all, but sounded like he must have stayed with a friend somewhere near New Braunfels (which is located just north of San Antonio).

I'll spare you most of the boring details I remember, but there were two things that he said I wanted to point out:
  1. He had never had (or heard of) chicken fried steak.  He started making an issue about is it supposed to be chicken or beef...this is some crazy dish from Texas, etc.  The other guys on the show pointed out that he can get this "crazy" dish at several restaurants in their area.
  2. Much like John, he had never heard of Twang.  He couldn't actually remember what it was called, but he saw lots of people putting the salt-like substance in their beer while tubing down the Guadalupe River.
Okay, I'll give him not knowing about Twang.  But not knowing about chicken fried steak?  If that is the hidden gem of the South that he made it out to be then people are missing out.  Maybe I should open a place in New York specializing in chicken fried steak, steak sandwiches (The Project style), and putting Twang in the beer.

3 comments:

John said...

Twang?

LCA said...

I'm in... we can boil peanuts and crawfish, fry turkeys and steaks. Teach them to whistle dixie and say y'all. On second thought, NO. There's already enough of them moving down here, we don't need anymore.

JT said...

I call BS on the chicken fried whatever...Lisa and I had to laugh about seeing Chicken Fried Steak on a Menu in Italy. Just sounds to me like homeboy doesn't venture too far from his standards.