Yup. Everything around here is "chicken fried". Lots of chicken fried steak - with white gravy on top, of course - which is damn good, by the way.

What cracks me up though is there's a restaurant in Joplin that has "chicken fried chicken" on the menu, which always makes me laugh. It seems rather redundant but what do I know?

 

Just about every restaurant in Texas has chicken fried chicken on the menu as well as grilled chicken.

 

There's several places here that have chicken fried chicken, Kobi.

 

wheres the chocolate covered bacon?!

 

That one always crack me up too. How the h### do you fry a chicken? More ways than one I suppose

 

Are you saying you've never had it? It's a large chicken breast dipped in batter and deep fired. You can even get it on a sandwich, but usually served wit french fries and a salad or mashed potatoes.

 

Oh yea.
You can't live in the South without ever eating one of those. It just makes me laugh when I see it on the menu

 

OK. I seldom go for it, have to go for the chickenfried steak. Or the chopped/hamburger steak with mushrooms and onions.

 

Shrimp scampi and buttered rice is my favorite restaurant food.

Spaghetti and my home made sauce is my favorite food group

 

What are the 3 major food groups? Grease, sugar, and beer?

 

I'm only getting two of the three groups. Maybe I need to start drinking.


With regard to "chicken fried chicken" the reason it seems silly to me to call it that is because, with regard to steak, they call it CHICKEN FRIED STEAK it isn't normally prepared in the manner that folks in the midwest and the south seem to prepare chicken (battered, deep fried). So, to call it "CHICKEN FRIED STEAK" indicates that it prepared like midwestern/southern fried chicken, thus differentiating it from normally prepared steak.

Chicken in these parts, however, is commonly prepared battered and deep fired, so to call it "chicken fried chicken" is to say it is prepared as it is usually prepared, which is repetitive.

It like saying "What kind of chicken is that?" "It's chicken chicken."

Whatever. It's all good.

BTW, the restaurant I was referring to was Red, Hot, & Blue

 

Chicken fried chicken is topped with gravy. Fried chicken isn't.

 

Well there you have it.

 

Not quite, There are plenty of places, that you can get a chicken fried chicken on a bun. Just like hamburger. lol

 

Red Hot & Blue, huh? You need to go to Woody's. Meet you there for lunch sometime. Best BBQ in town, and they don't have chicken fried chicken.