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
Current demand is gangbusters, but spending is a game of chicken until multiple factor-of-10 improvements kick in and prices collapse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
Dobbertin, who spent years in Thailand, created her own crunchwrap featuring a tortilla wrapped around marinated chicken in a khao soi coconut curry with avocado basil ranch and crisp wheat noodles for added crunch.
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
Now I could go home, and maybe Gran had cooked a chicken.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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Now, as the bill comes due and interest rates rise, “the chickens are coming home to roost.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 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
I walked through a small village where chickens and gnomes were scattered among little houses with thatched roofs and smoking chimneys.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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