In California, restaurants do a lot with cube steak, which seems to be any cheap cut run through a mechanical tenderizer to the point where it's almost ground meat but still holds together. I've seen these sold as steak or beef parmigiana sandwiches (w/cheese, onions, and tomato sauce), somtimes at Italian restaurants or pizzerias, occasionally at locally-owned drive-ins. It's not a regional thing or cuisine, just something that you see here and there.
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