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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.

Etimologia

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.

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Contenuto lessicale tratto da Wiktionary, sotto licenza CC BY-SA 4.0 · Voce di origine · Versione dei dati 2026-08-23

Posizione tra le parole del corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — sottotitoli di film e serie, quindi lingua parlata e non scritta (CC BY-SA 3.0).