Chicken fried steak is beef. The "steak" part refers to beef. "Chicken fried" refers to the cooking technique. Batter and fry it like chicken. Schnitzel is breaded differently and is pounded flat.
It's all breaded and fried meat in the end, but comparing chicken fried steak to Schnitzel is like comparing beer-battered cod to chicken fried steak.
aberneth t1_itktgav wrote
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Chicken fried steak is beef. The "steak" part refers to beef. "Chicken fried" refers to the cooking technique. Batter and fry it like chicken. Schnitzel is breaded differently and is pounded flat.
It's all breaded and fried meat in the end, but comparing chicken fried steak to Schnitzel is like comparing beer-battered cod to chicken fried steak.