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jojo

nomattesté dans les dialogues

A seasoned, battered and fried potato wedge.

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    A seasoned, battered and fried potato wedge.

    If you're really hungry, be sure to try the wood-fired jojos (potato wedges).

    The cheesy jojos threaten to colonize every inch of my appetite but I hold back by only eating them once I am nearly full.

    And perhaps George's best (un)kept secret is its fried chicken and jojos, which give Reel M Inn a run for its money.

Étymologie

Reportedly coined on the spot by an employee of the Flavor-Crisp pressure fryer company at a Chicago trade show in the early 1960s. The potatoes were used to "clean the grease" between demonstrations of cooking chicken and fish, but customers unexpectedly started eating and enjoying them, leading someone to inquire what they were called.

Formes

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Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).