I didn't know there was such a big difference between country fried steak and chicken fried steak. Adding to the confusion, apparently a chicken fried steak can be made of beef.
Country fried (chicken) steak origins stem from Austria's wiener schnitzel.
so, frozen country fried steak (Tyson) may resemble a typical schnitzel, but it is nothing like a typical country fried steak even though its origins are from a schnitzel.
However, the main culprit lies apparently in the breading: a country fried steak is sort of flaky, a schnitzel is not.
In other words, Tyson's frozen country fried steak is technically everything a country fried steak should be, but its not.
I learned this the hard way