The “Lamesa Original Chicken Fried Festival,” an inaugural celebration in Lamesa, Texas, marked 100 years since the recipe was invented there.
Oklahoma made chicken fried steak — among other dishes — part of its official state meal.
The Los Angeles Times printed a recipe for chicken fried steak.
Jimmy Don Perkins, a short-order cook in Lamesa, Texas, accidentally creates chicken fried steak by mixing up a chicken order and a steak order (or so one of the stories go).
