But my favorite controversy came in the 1985 series, when the Flyers’ radical idea of letting their goalies have a water bottle on top of the net resulted in Glen Sather threatening to pull the Oilers off the ice while demanding to know whether buckets of fried chicken were next.
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Sean McIndoe,
New York Times,
16 June 2025
Much of Lucky Bird’s clientele are office workers who place orders for fried chicken sandwiches, tenders, wings and sides like cheddar jalapeño biscuits.
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Stephanie Breijo,
Los Angeles Times,
13 June 2025
One kid ate the broiled fruit and loved it; the other would have sooner perished.
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Emily Weinstein,
New York Times,
25 Feb. 2025
But if your crowd would call that having a side dish for supper, the rice won’t mind sharing the bill with a roast chicken, a lamb chop, sautéed mushrooms or a piece of broiled fish.
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