chicken
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A few years ago, an experimental McDonald’s drive-thru system became convinced that two customers needed an almost ceremonial quantity of chicken McNuggets.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
In life’s grand pursuit of perfect bites, the whole chicken at Cafe Commerce in New York City makes a strong bid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Fishmeal helped fuel the post-World War II expansion of industrial chicken and hog farming, particularly in Europe and the United States.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Similarly, Finnish driver Anita Mäkelä has won the European championship four times – three of them after a six-year break focusing on her children and running her family's chicken farm.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Eating the chicken should have been a celebration, a great luxury, but we were both melancholy.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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Members of the Amish community call the county home, riding horse-drawn buggies and operating farms with chickens, pigs, cows and horses on their properties just outside of the city.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Looking across more than 550 million years of evolutionary history, the team found evidence of the same two-origin arrangement in chickens, zebrafish and even acorn worms.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
“The house was small, so we built onto it to add a kitchen. We use the barns as a sanctuary for rescued horses, ducks, chickens, peacocks, goats, and other animals,” she went on.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
The elderly grimace, hobbling on crutches, and wide-eyed children stare, cradling chickens carried from homes they were forced to leave behind.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
“Children, do you know what sort of sound chickens make? Show the baroness, please.”
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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