Texas Chicken Fried Steak Day is Monday, October 26, and if you want to celebrate it properly, consider a road trip to a convenience store in Belton. The woman behind one of the most talked-about chicken fried steaks in Texas has a secret, and it is a good one. She does not eat it.
Ailehs Gaines owns Expo Quik Stop, a family-run gas station and convenience store at 308 W. Loop 121, about two hours south of Dallas on Interstate 35. We told you about its chicken fried steak back in July. Since then the legend has only grown, and in a new profile in NACS Magazine, the convenience store industry’s trade publication, Gaines revealed the twist. She is a vegetarian.
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