Posted on 04/20/2015 8:34:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
With the fifth annual chicken-fried steak festival just under a month away, much of the event's entertainment lineup is set.
The festival is April 24-26 in Lamesa’s Forrest Park.
The three-day event kicks off with a dinner Friday night, April 24. Plates of — you guessed it— chicken-fried steaks and sides are $12 for adults and $7 for children.
Saturday activities include a cook-off, balloon launch, team roping and a classic car show. A 5k glow run is set for about 8:30 p.m.
The musical lineup includes:
5:30-8:30 p.m. Friday — Coby Carter
8 p.m. - midnight Friday — Jody Nix and the Texas Cowboys
4:30-7 p.m. Saturday — Mike Pritchard
9 p.m. - midnight Saturday — Little Joe y La Familia
What is chicken fried steak? NYC yankee here.
It’s a steak that is breaded and fried like chicken, hence the name. It originated in Texas, and was derived from the AUstrian Wiener Schnitzel.
Steak with a fried chicken style breading, deep fried. Very tasty.
Are there defibrillators nearby :)
Interesting about the schnitzel connection. I can believe it. OTOH I can also imagine some southerner with no German influence saying, hmm, wonder what would happen if we batter fried a steak...
Good stuff.
Also, the chicken fried steak is smothered in cream gravy...ditto for the mashed potatoes and biscuits.
Steak with a fried chicken style breading, deep fried. Very tasty.
And mashed potatoes and gravy and corn on the cob.
Now I’m hungry. :)
rofl there’s an outback on staten island that has one. wonder if it would be any good compared to yours, but that would be like asking if the local diner could make pasta as good as my mother
My mother and family lived in Lamesa when she was a little girl during the early days of the Great Depression.
I was 12 years old before I learned “damn yankee” was two words
Fork? Son, you don’t use a fork! You put in all in this bottle and stick the needle in your arm. That’s why there is so much gravy!
See post # 14 for some more technical aspects of this.
I don’t even like us lol. but I’m from staten island and we are called rednecks and worse by the other boroughs.
One black congresswoman from the Bronx, after insulting another congresswoman, apologized to the Spanish congresswoman saying “I thought she was Italian” lol
in the south we’re wops, in the north we’re rednecks lol
read it lol
Chicken fried steak is real good with fried okra and black-eyed peas. And cobbler for dessert. Yum.
I don’t know what any of those things are. (waiting for brutal backlash!!)
Before it got mucked up with giant ugly wind turbines.
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