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bubble-and-squeak

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  • Cisco Systems, who raises organic beef, pigs and vegetables at her nearby Ayeshire Farm and also runs the Hunter's Head Inn in nearby Upperville -- the closest thing we have to a real British pub with great brews, shepherd's pie, bubble-and-squeak, and steak-and-kidney pudding.

    George Archibald: Christmas in Middleburg 2008

  • Rob fit all this in the fridge perfectly, all ready for the bubble-and-squeak fry-up tomorrow.

    Pen-Elayne on the Web 2005

  • Smells of coal smoke, piss, garbage, last night's bubble-and-squeak, fill the hallways.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • It was bubble-and-squeak, between two plates, and its fragrance filled the narrow cell.

    The Wind in the Willows 1908

  • Deborah -- for how satisfying my linen would be if she had an eye on the laundry, and I know she would not have bubble-and-squeak for dinner as often as Mary does -- than Miss Ruth comes into my mind.

    John Ward, Preacher Margaret Wade Campbell Deland 1901

  • It was bubble-and-squeak, between two plates, and its fragrance filled the narrow cell.

    The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 1895

  • It was bubble-and-squeak, between two plates, and its fragrance filled the narrow cell.

    The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame 1895

  • "Here, what game's this?" shouted the big fellow in what his enemies called a bubble-and-squeak voice, due to the fact that in the change that was taking place his tones were an awkward mingling of treble and bass; and as he spoke he seized the boy nearest to him by the ear.

    Glyn Severn's Schooldays George Manville Fenn 1870

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