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city chicken

city chicken noun: cubes of breaded pork loin and/or veal on a wooden skewer which has been fried or baked.

Noun

city chicken (uncountable)

  1. (Pennsylvania, Western, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana) Cubes of breaded pork loin and/or veal on a wooden skewer which has been fried or baked.
    • You'll like city chicken a lot. What you've never heard of it? Why it's... well, here's the way McCanns prepare it: tender choice pieces of fresh veal and pork are cut into neat squares and alternated on skewers... four or five to the skewer. All you do, then, is dip the meat in egg and bread...2 November 1932, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, page 4

Questions about city chicken

What does city chicken mean?
City chicken means cubes of breaded pork loin and/or veal on a wooden skewer which has been fried or baked.
What part of speech is city chicken?
City chicken is a noun.

Words near city chicken in the dictionary

  1. city cars
  2. city center
  3. city centers
  4. city centre
  5. city centres
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  7. city council
  8. city councils
  9. city desk
  10. city desks
  11. City Dulas

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