kipper
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Faced with dilemmas like that, wouldn’t you prefer a fantasy about a smoked kipper?
From Washington Post ● Jul. 23, 2019
In a speech last week to party members during his party leadership campaign, Johnson brandished a kipper fish and pointed to its freezer packaging to ridicule the absurdity of European Union regulation.
From Reuters ● Jul. 23, 2019
I haven't been yet done up like a kipper, have I?
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2017
Note the custom vest, kipper tie, and high collar in matching fabric.
From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2016
Ron gave no sign that he was aware of Percy, apart from stabbing pieces of kipper with unwonted venom.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
Britain's longest-serving Royal Mail postman has recalled hand-delivering turkeys, kippers and last-minute gifts for Christmas as his record 60 years comes to an end.
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2024
"Every culture has their own techniques to preserve fish, so we thought to take this kippers idea and turn it into a global gateway of ingredients."
From Salon ● May 12, 2023
Some lean toward continental fare, including Ye Landmark’s UK-based crisps ‘n’ kippers, Nordiska’s Scandinavian housewares and kitchen goods, and Marina Market’s aisles of imported licorice candy and Northern European beers, cheeses and meats.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2021
She said she had indulged a little, however, buying kippers at the grocery store and was considering buying a printer and a new chair for her desk.
From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2020
Penelope looked around in a panic but saw only three children having a no-blinking contest by pretending to be kippers.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
"If this had happened then, I think we would have been kippered," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2025
Smoked fish that requires refrigeration, such as lox, nova-style, kippered, or jerky, is considered precarious for those who are pregnant because, like deli meat, it could be contaminated with listeria.
From Salon ● Aug. 25, 2021
Drawing inspiration from Sephardic culture and Spanish cuisine, I'm making escabeche salmon, my take on kippered salmon.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2011
A schmaltzy piece of kippered salmon with some nice "belly" lox: my idea of breakfast.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 11, 2010
Dining-room breakfast: Hot scones, baked muffins, eggs and bacon, deviled kidneys, scrambled eggs, a dish of kippered herrings, marmalade, honey, jam, tea and coffee.
From Polly A New-Fashioned Girl by L. T. Meade
These fish were the last of the season, and were thus undergoing the process of kippering.
From Malcolm by George MacDonald
She 201 has seen the kippering done, ever since she wore ankle tights.”
From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Then Norman went away, and Christine put back in its place the kippering suit, and took out her very prettiest selling suit.
From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
“I’ll not let that order slip through my fingers,” she cried, “I’m going to the kippering, and what I canna do, Christine can manage, following my say-so.”
From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
She hoped that her effort to take her mother’s place in the kippering shed would put a stop to the fisherwives’ opinion that she was “setting hersel’ up aboon them a’.”
From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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