fry
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Smaller improvements — like adjusting the amount of oil used to fry chicken and tweaking other fryer settings — would go a long way across its more than 46,000 restaurants worldwide, executives said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
“Regardless of how you fry your french fries, they are still fried,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Unlike a McNugget or a chicken fry, both of which are primarily taut pieces of dry stuff that exist as vehicles for sauce, the Cane’s version is obviously and unmistakably chicken.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
Spend enough years standing behind pyramids of hamburgers, posing at fry stations and inserting yourself into the iconography of American restaurant chains, and eventually the props begin to accrue meanings of their own.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
I never understood what Tariq saw in that small fry.
From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon
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I don’t eat meat, so I’ll do a beer, French fries with “truffle,” shrimp tacos and maybe some candy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
A child could eat the fries and then go home and watch the clown who sold them solve a mystery.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
Munching on French fries in a West Hollywood restaurant, the two displayed a palpable warmth toward each other that mirrored their onscreen relationship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
“Regardless of how you fry your french fries, they are still fried,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
They ate their food at the counter, telling everyone, “It’s on us,” between bites of fries and burgers.
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
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According to social media posts, the singer and a few band members set up on a grass lawn near a Central American fried chicken shop on 6th Street.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
I did the same: three dishes for lunch on my own, a whole fried fish in a sweet-tart sauce, braised pork in a clay pot, and tofu in a sizzling skillet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
"We have jerk pork, we have rice and peas, we have jerk chicken, curry goat, stewed chicken, fried dumpling and plantain," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
On one night, I’d empty a pack into a hot skillet, let the sausage crisp at the edges and spoon everything over spiced rice with a fried egg and a mess of fresh herbs.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2026
The new taco place by the old mall: Jonesy says the fried avocado taco is “to die for” and Kellerman says he doesn’t eat green things.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
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If you heat up food—by frying it in a pan, for example—it will usually form some amount of acrylamide without adding any other ingredients at all.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026
"It's like he's being taken out of the frying pan and into the fryer," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
It appeared as cooking oil, frying fat, shortening, salad dressing, mayonnaise and an inconspicuous ingredient in packaged foods.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
I usually prepare the batter just before frying because it comes together so easily—you just whisk the flour with lukewarm water and the egg whites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Then he hauls out a frying pan from under his coat, and a handful of salt as well as a lump of fat from his pocket.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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