pasty
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Morrisons claimed it was exempt from the so-called "pasty tax" - an added 20% VAT on hot food - as most customers consumed the cooked chickens cold or reheated them later.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025
Watching Will Ferrell in prison booty shorts showing off his pasty white legs feels like a crazy way to soothe the Sunday scaries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2025
And, of course, the town still cherishes and serves up the pasty.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
Add coffee and and a dash of aminos or soy sauce and cook until pasty and the mushrooms have softened.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2023
Her hair is lusterless, the flesh of her face pasty.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
These are pasties, crescent-shaped hand pies that originated as a lunch food for miners in Cornwall, England, and have become a mainstay in Grass Valley, 60 miles northeast of Sacramento.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
She’s interested in adding regular savories such as pasties and sausage rolls, and maybe bringing new treats such as trifles or Eton Messes to her roster.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
However, the cost of ingredients for Gregg's pasties and pies has been going up, along with its energy bills and staff wages.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2023
Cloake enjoys hers alongside summer berries and even adds a spoonful to her Cornish pasties, for "a touch of luxury."
From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2022
Then I’d collect the smashed pottery and the smashed meat pasties and grind them into all my perfect stitchery.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
Beyond Meat starts off a bit mushier and pastier, but once it starts cooking, it breaks up and browns just fine.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2020
In the comics, he has at times been reconfigured as a heroic vigilante, not unlike Batman with distinctly pastier colouring, a thirst for bad-guy blood, and actual chiropteran superpowers.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2018
Viewers also have watched the various stages of transformation from human victim to full-fledged bloodsucker, with characters getting pastier, hungrier and scarier by the moment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2014
Every day the flabby cheeks grew pastier and the pouches under the eyebrows heavier.
From The Last Shot by Frederick Palmer
Years ago, in my earliest and pastiest days as a would-be writer, I once read a new story aloud to S. and Boo Boo.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
