kipper
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A veritable slap in the face with a wet kipper.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2022
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
Taylor had chestnut hair, a kipper tie and a boy-next-door look.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 17, 2018
Oatmeal cake was a tolerable idea, but the possibility of kipper cake made them gag.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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
Topics such as "mother's midday meal" - herrings, kippers or a baked potato - and "putting your best face forward" - wearing lipstick, powder and a headscarf, were the norm.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2016
That some people willingly eat kippers and eggs for breakfast is a fact that others may find hard to swallow.
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
Her face, as she lifted it, was brown and wrinkled—indeed, it was not unlike in hue the kippered herrings hanging on a stick outside.
From The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys by M. B. Manwell
All the processes of gutting, curing, and kippering go on in grand style.
From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Daniel Turner Holmes
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
These fish were the last of the season, and were thus undergoing the process of kippering.
From Malcolm by George MacDonald
“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 201 has seen the kippering done, ever since she wore ankle tights.”
From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
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