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egg roll

n.
A usually deep-fried cylindrical casing of thin egg dough, filled with minced vegetables and often bits of seafood or meat.
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egg roll

n
(Cookery) a Chinese-American dish consisting of egg dough filled with a minced mixture of pork, bamboo shoots, onions, etc, and browned in deep fat
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egg′ roll`


n.
a thin casing of egg dough rolled around a mixture of minced meat or shrimp, bamboo shoots, bean sprouts, etc., and fried in deep fat.
[1940–45]
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Noun1.egg roll - minced vegetables and meat wrapped in a pancake and friedegg roll - minced vegetables and meat wrapped in a pancake and fried
dish - a particular item of prepared food; "she prepared a special dish for dinner"
Cathay, China, Communist China, mainland China, People's Republic of China, PRC, Red China - a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world
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She believes retailers could take the familiar eggroll to a "more Vietnamese place" by combining, for example, glass noodles with pickled shredded carrots and including a savory dipping sauce such as a Nuoc Cham sauce.
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After a long day of juggling responsibilities and unexpected problems, those menus allow you to shift your brain into autopilot with the most difficult decision being whether to go for that extra eggroll or order of garlic knots.
The popularity of inexpensive Chinese food among Jewish Americans is legendary, and cleverly satirized several years later in Roth's "Defender of the Faith" when a telltale eggroll blows the cover of a Jewish soldier whose leave was granted to attend a Passover seder.
That's why the show is a metaphor for so many things." Among his favorite dishes: the Working Class-a-dilla, which he created for a show in Green Bay, Wise; the LGBT(Q) Torta, a sandwich with lettuce, guacamole, beans, tomato and optional queso; and the one we selected for this issue, the Lumpia Campesina, a multiethnic version of a Filipino eggroll.