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| | French fries - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Variations of cheese fries include fries covered with melted cheese, usually Cheez Whiz, mozzarella, Swiss cheese, or garlic and cheese fries (cheese with garlic mayonnaise). | | | In the United States, fries are sometimes coated with melted cheese, called cheese fries. | | | In Utah, and the surrounding area, french fries are often served with fry sauce, a mixture of spices, mayonnaise, and ketchup. |
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| | gladwell dot com - the trouble with fries |
| | Bread is buttered; macaroni comes with cheese; dumplings are fried; potatoes are scalloped, baked with milk and cheese, cooked in the dripping of roasting meat, mixed with mayonnaise in a salad, or pan-fried in butterfat as latkes. | | | Fast-food French fries are made from a baking potato like an Idaho russet, or any other variety that is mealy, or starchy, rather than waxy. | | | To make a crisp French fry, a potato has to be stored at a warm temperature for several weeks in order to convert those sugars to starch. |
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http://www.gladwell.com/2001/2001_03_05_a_fries.htm
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| | Straight Dope Staff Report: What's the origin of French fries? |
| | French fries are commonly eaten with ketchup in the U.S., but with malt vinegar (delicious) in the U.K., and with mayonnaise (appalling) in the Netherlands. | | | You asked how they got their name--pretty obvious, I'd say: they came from France, and they were fried potatoes, so they were called "French fried potatoes." The name was shortened to "french fries" in the 1930s. | | | By the way, the verb "to french" in cooking has come to mean to cut in long, slender strips, and some people insist that "french fries" come from that term. |
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http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mfrenchfry.html
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| | The Secret History of French Fries |
| | Although today fries are commonly eaten in many other countries, they are only associated with the Gallic culture here in the U.S. French fries were born to be fast food. | | | Today, French fries account for more than one-fourth of all potatoes sold in the U.S. market—over six million pounds of potatoes are processed into frozen fries annually. | | | French claim it was one of their countrymen, while the Belgians fiercely hold that it was one of their own who first frenched a fry. |
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http://www.stim.com/Stim-x/9.2/fries/fries-09.2.html
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| | French Fries |
| | French Fries seem to have gotten their name from "Potatoes, fried in the French Manner," which is how Thomas Jefferson described a new cooking method he brought over to the colonies in the late 1700s. | | | It is interesting to note that the French Fry was the forefather of potato chip. | | | Under the heading "French Fries" there is nothing but a reference to the word, "Chips," which is what the British call French Fries. |
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http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/4273/fries.html
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| | Idaho Potato: French Fries |
| | America's craving for french fries may be traced back to the thousands of hungry soldiers stationed in Northern France and Belgium during World War I, when American servicemen first tasted the irresistible, thinly-sliced regional potato specialty. | | | Today, not only do french fries continue to be America's favorite potato side dish, but they are becoming one of America's most sizzling exports, as well. | | | In 1992, frozen potato products, which include french fries, were the #1 prepared style of potatoes in the U.S., with a 32 percent market share. |
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http://radio.boisestate.edu/information/otherprojects/potato/fries.html
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| | French Fry Cooking Guide for Potatoes |
| | Fries made from peeled potatoes should be chilled after cutting in cold water for 10 minutes to 30 minutes before frying, to ensure maximum crispiness and so they don't stick together while frying. | | | Fries are completely cooked during the blanching stage where a lower temperature is recommended to allow the potato to cook slowly without becoming golden brown. | | | French Fries are quick to prepare and are a low food cost. |
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| | The Secret History of French Fries |
| | Fries are so commonly served this way that to order them one simply asks for patat "met", or "with." The fry stand will also have a menu of other toppings, including sate sauce, a chunky peanut sauce that the Dutch discovered during their colonization of Indonesia and promptly incorporated into their fry culture. | | | The fries you order there will be the thick, steak fry variety, and they'll be served to you in a paper cone and topped with a dollop of creamy mayonnaise (a distant relative of our globby mayo). | | | In England they are called "chips," in France "pommes frites" (which means, literally, "fried apples"), and in Belgium and Holland "patat" (not the word for potato, which is "aardappel"). |
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http://www.stim.com/Stim-x/9.2/fries/fries-sidebar-09.2.html
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| | Why McDonald's Fries Taste So Good |
| | The taste of a french fry is largely determined by the cooking oil. | | | For decades McDonald's cooked its french fries in a mixture of about seven percent cottonseed oil and 93 percent beef tallow. | | | In France, for example, fries are sometimes cooked in duck fat or horse tallow. |
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http://www.rense.com/general7/whyy.htm
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| | USATODAY.com - Q: Do you want fries with that? A: Nope |
| | The french fry, America's favorite side dish, is in a serious pickle. | | | French fries have long been Americans' most popular side dish. | | | Increasingly health-conscious consumers are ordering fries less — leading to the largest annual decline in sales in 15 years, according to a not-yet-released study by consumer researchers NPD Group. |
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| | Low-Fat French Fries From Rice? / July 11, 2001 / News from the USDA Agricultural Research Service |
| | The fries are made from rice flour mixtures, rather than potatoes. | | | In tests, the rice fries generally absorbed 25-50 percent less fat from oil during cooking than potato fries. | | | In 1999, Kadan overcame these difficulties with a method of processing rice flour mixtures into fries with texture, cooking and other properties that closely mimic potato fries. |
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| | French Fry Diary |
| | Also known as hash browns because they can be fried into a hash brown-like patty. | | | BATTER FRIES - Usually regular cuts with a coating of breading or beer or corn batter that makes them have a more crispy outside. | | | MATCHSTICK FRIES - Also known as allumette or potato sticks. |
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http://www.frenchfrydiary.blogspot.com
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| | BBC NEWS World Americas US Congress opts for "freedom fries" |
| | French fries in the House of Representatives' cafeterias will now be known as "freedom fries" as part of a Republican protest at France's opposition to a war on Iraq. | | | French fries are off the menu for US legislators | | | French toast from now on will be known as "freedom toast". |
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| | Although these "fries" have fewer carbs than regular french fries, please be aware that anything that is fried, even cauliflower, has the issue of trans fat and the potent cancer-causing substance acrylamide. | | | A new version of the french fry has been invented that uses cauliflower as a main ingredient. | | | The fries have fewer carbohydrates than regular french fries and contain the same nutrients and fiber content as a serving of broccoli. |
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http://www.mercola.com/2003/aug/30/cauliflower_fries.htm
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| | Technorati Tag: french fries |
| | Kraft French Fries Recipe Visit Kraft for quick, easy recipe ideas for French fries. | | | French Fries Prices Compare French Fries and Food Bargains. | | | French Fries Shop for French Fries from over 600 Merchants with One Cart. |
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http://technorati.com/tag/french+fries
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| | Allrecipes Cook's Encyclopedia french fries |
| | Other versions of french-fried potatoes are shoestring potatoes (matchstick-wide) and steak fries (very thick strips). | | | The name does not come from the fact that their origin is French, but because the potatoes are "frenched"-cut into lengthwise strips. |
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http://allrecipes.com/advice/ref/ency/terms/6564.asp
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| | RecipeSource: Homemade French Fries |
| | Return partially cooked fries and continue cooking until they are crisp and golden, 4 to 5 minutes. | | | People said it smelled as if we were cooking Christmas dinner, which we took to mean they were used to standing rib roast for Christmas, not french fries. | | | Making french fries from scratch is a mighty effort, raising the question of whether the end justifies the means, so the Tribune test kitchen endeavored to find an answer. |
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| | The Christian Science Monitor csmonitor.com |
| | The dish was first prepared as early as the 1700s and was simply called fried potatoes. | | | He sliced the potatoes paper-thin, fried them to a crisp in oil, then doused them with salt. | | | But they weren't French fries until 1918 or so. |
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| | French fries protester regrets war jibe MetaFilter |
| | Belgian fries are made from much bigger potatoes, and cut in larger pieces then French fries. | | | And for the record, McDonald's and its brethren didn't call 'em French fries to "conceal" anything, since the name predates the concept of fast food by at least a couple of generations. | | | The french fry hatas at least had some sort of evidence to back up their spurious claims. |
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| | New Tests Confirm Acrylamide in American Foods ~ Newsroom ~ News from CSPI |
| | CSPI’s tests included several popular brands of snack chips, taco shells, French fries, and breakfast cereals—the kinds of foods that were initially shown to have some of the highest acrylamide levels. | | | Fast-food French fries showed the highest levels of acrylamide among the foods CSPI had tested, with large orders containing 39 to 82 micrograms. | | | The amount of acrylamide in a large order of fast-food French fries is at least 300 times more than what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency allows in a glass of water. |
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| | Metroblogging Chicago: Our Fave "French Fries" |
| | Not only are they fresh and potato-ey (which is saying a lot, most french fries completely lose their potato taste) but they also use a super yummy blend of spices on them. | | | The best fries I've had in Chicago are the waffles fries cooked in canola oil at Jubilee Juice (the Jube, to those in the know). | | | Yes, they fry them up when you order as opposed to leaving them under a heat lamp a la McDonald's, but the trade off is that they are usually rushing to fill orders so the fries you get are often undercooked. |
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| | McDonald's Confirms Its French Fries Are Made With Beef Extract |
| | Although the fast-food giant has been saying since 1990 that its fries are cooked in pure vegetable oil, company spokesman Walt Riker said Wednesday that McDonald's never said its fries were appropriate for vegetarians and always told customers that their flavor comes partly from beef. | | | Beef extract, not beef tallow, as the suit alleges, is the only natural flavor in McDonald's French fries, Riker said. | | | SEATTLE - Facing a class-action lawsuit from angry vegetarians, McDonald's this week confirmed that its French fries are prepared with beef extract, a disclosure the company said is not new. |
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| | It's short for "Frenched and Fried Potatoes." Frenched means to cut the potatoes into smaller pieces. | | | That sounds like a lot of french fries, but that's not too much when you consider that the average person is eating about 30 pounds of fries every year. | | | They're somewhat like potato chips with cheese crap on them but theyre the shape of french fries lol. |
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| | French Fries |
| | You’ve probably made oven fries before, but were disappointed in the results, because there wasn’t enough fat to really brown and crisp the fries. | | | I hope French Fries is what you were looking for. | | | You’ll also like using lemon pepper instead of salt; its acidic tang creates a sense of saltiness in the mouth. |
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| | Bush's USDA: Frozen Fries Are 'Fresh' Veggies |
| | The Frozen Potato Products Institute appealed to the USDA in 2000 to change its definition of fresh produce under PACA to include batter-coated, frozen French fries, arguing that rolling potato slices in a starch coating, frying them and freezing them is the equivalent of waxing a cucumber or sweetening a strawberry. | | | Meir Stampfer, a professor of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, said it "boggles the mind" that the USDA would label French fries a fresh vegetable since most commercial fries are prepared in oil laden with heart-clogging trans-fat. | | | "While plaintiff argued that battered-coated French fries are processed products, they have not been 'processed' to the point that they are no longer 'fresh,' " attorneys for the USDA argued. |
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| | Flames over Prescott flares and French Fries |
| | Also, the term "French Fries" in the english-speaking world is actually a misunderstanding: during the first world war British, American and Canadian soldiers were present in Belgium (in the region of Ieper (or Ypres in french)) where they became acquainted with fries. | | | Although i do not like the term "French Fries", i don't mind Anglophones using it (i have given up trying to change this), but stating that French Fries have nothing to do with Belgium is totally unacceptable and a disgrace to truth. | | | because french was at that time the only language used in the Belgian army, it was spoken a lot and so the foreign soldiers, some of them even thinking they were in France, started calling our fries "french fries". |
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| | French Fries - Wendy's |
| | Nothing goes better with a hot n juicy hamburger or plump, juicy chicken fillet than our piping-hot fries cooked to beautiful, golden-brown perfection. |
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| | CNN.com - House cafeterias change names for 'french' fries and 'french' toast - Mar. 12, 2003 |
| | The cafeteria menus in the three House office buildings changed the name of "french fries" to "freedom fries," in a culinary rebuke of France stemming from anger over the country's refusal to support the U.S. position on Iraq. | | | House cafeterias change names for 'french' fries and 'french' toast | | | Ditto for "french toast," which will be known as "freedom toast." |
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| | USATODAY.com - French fries get new name in House |
| | Jones said he was inspired by Cubbie's restaurant in Beaufort, N.C., in his district, one of the first to put "freedom fries" on the menu instead of french fries. | | | The French Embassy in Washington had no immediate comment, except to say that french fries actually come from Belgium. | | | Lawmakers struck a lunchtime blow against the French and put "freedom fries" on the menu. |
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| | You want U.S.A. fries with that, mon ami? |
| | Besides, the embassy said, french fries are a Belgian invention. | | | Not far away on Carson Street, the staff at the very French restaurant Le Pommier serves plenty of pommes frites (french fries) but hasn't taken any flak for it. | | | He says sales of freedom fries and freedom toast have picked up since he put the signs in the window. |
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| | Potato Chip Petition - DrGreene |
| | As I said in July 2002, I cannot recommend that children eat French fries or potato chips until further research is in, or until the brand has been tested and found to have low levels. | | | The proposal only asks that the worst French fries, for example, be brought in line with other French fries already on the market. | | | I recognize that French fries and potato chips are favorite items on kids’ menus everywhere, but the benefits just do not justify the risks! |
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| | French Fries Surprise! - DrGreene.com |
| | Potato chips and French fries are the most common foods found on Kids Meal menus. | | | The World Health Organization has called an emergency meeting for the end of June 2002 to look at an urgent health concern with potato chips, French fries, and some other fried and baked foods. | | | But over a billion bags of potato chips are sold every year, and French fries are ubiqutious. |
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| | McDonald's to cut "bad" french-fry fat in half - Sep. 3, 2002 |
| | Fast-food chain to reduce certain types of fat in its french fries with new cooking oil. | | | A headline that said McDonald's fries "are better for you" would be misleading, she added. | | | The new oil, to be introduced on Oct. 1 and completely phased in by February, leaves the total amount of fat in the fries unchanged. |
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| | Goodbye, war on smoking. Hello, war on fat. By William Saletan |
| | New York City is purging whole milk from its schools, despite the fact that milk has steadily lost market share to soda during the obesity surge. | | | A fact sheet from Harkin implies that schools should treat milk, French fries, and pizza like soda, jelly beans, and gum. | | | Photograph of french fries on Slate's home page © Royalty-Free/Corbis. |
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| | The Rutherford Institute - Commentary |
| | Before leaving the station, she asked the arresting officer if there was another way to handle such matters—rather than arresting a twelve-year-old for eating a french fry. | | | Just outside the station, she stopped and bought some french fries. | | | While waiting for her friend, Ansche placed one of the fries in her mouth. |
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| | No more french fries Samizdata.net |
| | They're called french fries because those poor little potatoes have been frenched before being further tortured in a vat of boiling oil. | | | I think that *both* the renaming of French Fries *and* what the Academie does are ridiculous. | | | That WWI history is not much to be proud of, as it caused a lot of anti-German discrimination that went beyond renaming food. |
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| | BBC NEWS Europe French fries off US menu |
| | A fast food restaurant in America says it has received huge support after renaming its French fries, in protest at France's opposition to the United States' stance on Iraq. | | | Neal Rowland, the owner of Cubbie's diner in Beaufort, North Carolina, said his newly-named 'freedom fries' have been a hit with customers. | | | Mr Rowland says he got the idea from similar protest action against Germany during WWI, when sauerkraut was renamed liberty cabbage, frankfurters became hot dogs, and German measles converted to liberty measles. |
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| | Heinz launches chocolate fries - Feb. 11, 2002 |
| | The new products include French fries flavored with sour cream and chives, or cinnamon and sugar, and a new product called Crunchy Rings - basically Tater Tots with a hole in the middle. | | | Then there's Kool Blue - a sky blue seasoned French fry, and Cocoa Crispers -- a brown chocolate fry designed "for kids with a sweet tooth." | | | Beginning in May, H.J. Heinz Co. will ship a new line of Ore-Ida frozen potato products called Funky Fries featuring five new shapes, colors and flavors, all intended to give kids even more say over their parents' grocery store lists. |
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| | Prentiss Riddle: Causes: First France, then French Fries? |
| | And while we are at it, French Fries are invented by the Belgians, not the French | | | You can get fries with your order at Cubbie's, but just don't ask for french fries. | | | To my surprise, apparently the origin of the french fry is indeed French (at least according to Cecil Adams). |
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| | VoIP Blog - VoIP News, Gadgets |
| | Well, I hope his french fries taste as good as he says they do, and if Burger King, McDonald's, Wendy's etc. do come "knocking" on his door, I hope the fast food chains will still keep the greasy, fatty, high caloric french fries as an option. | | | Related Stories: Recipe for inexpensive and healthy french fries | | | Even with a new type of low-fat low-calorie oil, a potato naturally has too many calories (since a lot of carbs). |
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| | Children who eat fries raise breast cancer risk - - MSNBC.com |
| | A study of American nurses found that one additional serving of fries per week at ages three to five increased breast cancer risk by 27 percent. | | | “These data have to be interpreted cautiously since the observed association between consumption of French fries and breast cancer is dependent on the validity of the maternal recall of the diet,” said Michels. | | | The risk was increased by 27 percent for each weekly serving reportedly eaten. |
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| | This went on for three days....and each evening they had Sheep Fries for supper. | | | When he came in and asked what was for supper, I told him French Fries, and he ran like hell!" | | | My wife fries them up, and we eat them, they're delicious! |
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| | Do You Want 'Freedom Fries' With That? - CBS News |
| | The House action follows moves by several restaurants around the country to remove "French" fries from their menus to protest French opposition to U.S. military action in Iraq. | | | (AP) House cafeterias will be serving fries with a side order of patriotism Tuesday with a decision by GOP lawmakers to replace the "French" cuisine with "freedom fries." | | | Ney, whose panel oversees House operations, ordered the House Administrative officer to change the menus in House office building cafeterias to read "freedom fries" and "freedom toast." |
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| | Kokonut Pundits - they're nothing like a coconut.: Terrorist French Fries in Paris |
| | These are terrorist French Fries ("small fries") when most of them are juveniles or Muslim youths bent on making as much mayhem and destruction as possible. | | | Kokonut Pundits - they're nothing like a coconut.: Terrorist French Fries in Paris | | | France laughed off "freedom fries" -- as French fries were renamed in Washington -- and other anti-French sentiment in the United States at the start of the Iraq war in 2003, but its reaction to the riot reporting carries a between-the-lines admission of hurt pride. |
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| | Banning french fries. By Timothy Noah |
| | Henceforth, french fries and French toast will no longer be served in the cafeterias of the House of Representatives' three office buildings. | | | Instead, the cafeterias will offer "freedom fries" and "freedom toast." It has been so decreed by Rep. Bob Ney, an Ohio Republican who chairs the committee on House administration. |
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| | More On The Plate Than Freedom Fries - CBS News |
| | Lawmakers Strip 'French' Fries From House Cafeteria Menus | | | More On The Plate Than Freedom Fries - CBS News | | | With Americans growing weary (or angry or embarrassed) by the refusal of the French to sign off on a military invasion of Iraq, two members of Congress decided to fight back and rename two favorite foods in a House office building cafeteria. |
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| | English Sans French csmonitor.com |
| | named anew French fries "freedom fries" and French toast "freedom toast" in House | | | Editorial: Corn lobby's tall tale of a gas substitute |
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