> We also had lunch at Chili's -- it's rather hard to get to up here and we haven't been to it at all since we moved up here. Anyway, we had lunch at Chili's and saw on the menu -- hold me back -- "Country-Fried Steak". Which is Northern for "Chicken-Fried Steak". Which is the national dish of Texas.

In the April 30, 2001, issue of Time magazine, there was an interesting article on the South -- the Southern mentality, Mississippi's state flag, and chauvinism for a country that hasn't existed for over 120 years.

The author (a Yankee) kept referring to chicken-fried steak as "Confederate-Fried Steak".

-Faux "it was a rather interesting article" Pas