real McCoy

Graham Taylor, who started Helix Biotech last year, says labs have shown that their mimics trigger similar immune responses to the real McCoy.

It’s only in theater that we come to the real McCoy, as it were.

The artificial fingertip was not quite as sensitive as the real McCoy, however.

Local Tide’s version is the real McCoy — with a smudge of mayo to bind the Dungeness chunks and a modest sprinkling of salt, lemon and chives — served on a toasted, split-top brioche.

Chicken wings — the real McCoy — are the most expensive part of the bird these days, Oosterwijk said.