The Great Chicken-fried Steak Hoax
A case study in the origin of "fakelore"
I had a hand in creating one of Texas’ most enduring pieces of “fakelore”—the totally fabricated story chronicling the invention of the chicken-fried steak.
The phony folk tale traces to a friendly running argument with my old friend Larry BeSaw regarding the relative merits of the dish.
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