[Wallace T.]

The cuts of steak used for chicken fried steak are usually the less expensive, less desirable ones, such as chuck steak, round steak, and occasionally flank steak, cuts of meat usually relegated to hamburger or stew meat. The better cuts are seldom used for this dish. It probably originated in Texas, where German immigrants applied their weiner schnitzel recipes to the tougher cuts of steak. It spread from Texas into the South and Midwest, and is sometimes called country fried steak in those regions.

[Tokra]

The cuts of steak used for chicken fried steak are usually the less expensive, less desirable ones, such as chuck steak, round steak, and occasionally flank steak, cuts of meat usually relegated to hamburger or stew meat. The better cuts are seldom used for this dish. It probably originated in Texas, where German immigrants applied their weiner schnitzel recipes to the tougher cuts of steak. It spread from Texas into the South and Midwest, and is sometimes called country fried steak in those regions.

We do the same thing (almost) with the tougher steaks in the North - but we don't dip them in batter and deep fry them.

I'm from Michigan which was settled mostly by the Germans also.

[Paleo Conservative]

The cuts of steak used for chicken fried steak are usually the less expensive, less desirable ones, such as chuck steak, round steak, and occasionally flank steak,

In Texas, chicken fried it isn't made from flank steak, because that's what gets made into fajitas.