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  1. bagel
    a yeast-raised, doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust
  2. baguette
    a long, narrow loaf of French bread
  3. beer
    an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting a cereal with hops
  4. cake
    baked good based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat
  5. candy
    a rich sweet made of flavored sugar often with fruit or nuts
  6. cheese
    a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk
  7. chicken
    a domestic bird bred for meat or eggs
  8. chocolate
    a food made from roasted ground cacao beans
  9. coffee
    a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans
  10. coffee bean
    a seed of the coffee tree; ground to make coffee
  11. cola
    carbonated drink flavored with extract from kola nuts
  12. cookie
    any of various small flat sweet cakes
  13. crackers
    informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
  14. croissant
    a very rich, flaky, crescent-shaped roll
  15. dill
    aromatic Old World herb having aromatic threadlike foliage and seeds used as seasoning
  16. doughnut
    a toroidal shape
  17. egg
    animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds
  18. fish
    any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates
  19. french fries
    strips of potato fried in deep fat
  20. fried egg
    eggs cooked by sauteing in oil or butter
  21. ginger
    plant with thick aromatic rhizomes and leafy reedlike stems
  22. hamburger
    a sandwich consisting of a fried cake of minced beef served on a bun, often with other ingredients
  23. honey
    a sweet yellow liquid produced by bees
  24. hot dog
    a frankfurter served hot on a bun
  25. ice cream
    frozen dessert containing cream and sugar and flavoring
  26. kidney bean
    the common bean plant grown for the beans rather than the pods (especially a variety with large red kidney-shaped beans)
  27. lentil
    widely cultivated Eurasian annual herb grown for its edible flattened seeds that are cooked like peas and also ground into meal and for its leafy stalks that are used as fodder
  28. loaf of bread
    a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating
  29. milk
    a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings
  30. muffin
    a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan
  31. orange juice
    bottled or freshly squeezed juice of oranges
  32. oyster
    marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell
  33. oyster mushroom
    edible agaric with a soft greyish cap growing in shelving masses on dead wood
  34. pancake
    a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle
  35. parsley
    annual or perennial herb with aromatic leaves
  36. peppercorn
    pungent seasoning from the berry of the common pepper plant of East India; use whole or ground
  37. pickle
    vegetables preserved in brine or vinegar
  38. pizza
    Italian open pie made of thin bread dough spread with a spiced mixture of e.g. tomato sauce and cheese
  39. popcorn
    corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat
  40. porridge
    soft food made by boiling meal or legumes in water or milk
  41. potato chip
    a thin crisp slice of potato fried in deep fat
  42. red wine
    wine having a red color derived from skins of dark-colored grapes
  43. salad
    food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing; usually consisting of or including greens
  44. sandwich
    two (or more) slices of bread with a filling between them
  45. sausage
    highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings
  46. shrimp
    small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible
  47. soup
    liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food
  48. spaghetti
    pasta in the form of long strings
  49. steak
    a slice of meat cut from the fleshy part of an animal
  50. sundae
    ice cream served with toppings
  51. sushi
    cold rice and vinegar topped or rolled with raw fish
  52. tea
    the name of tea in various languages
  53. white wine
    pale yellowish wine made from white grapes or red grapes with skins removed before fermentation
  54. yoghurt
    a custard-like food made from curdled milk
  55. muesli
    mixture of untoasted dry cereals and fruits
  56. bread
    food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
  57. tuna salad
    salad composed primarily of chopped canned tuna fish
  58. cashew nut
    kidney-shaped nut edible only when roasted
  59. chewing gum
    a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing
  60. macaroni
    pasta in the form of slender tubes
Created on Mon Mar 11 08:05:41 EDT 2013 (updated Mon Mar 11 08:20:01 EDT 2013)

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