Definition of "flash-frozen" [flash-frozen]

• Preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value; -- used of foods. (adjective)

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• "The stage version is set in Philadelphia circa 1977, thus allowing Alan Menken and Glenn Slater "The Little Mermaid", who wrote the music and lyrics, to stuff "Sister Act" full of ersatz disco-style numbers that are as close to the real thing as flash-frozen veggie burgers are to freshly ground chuck."
• "Loyal viewers of one of his many public-television series, "Cooking With Julia and Jacques," will remember that he never failed to get a rise out of the rather doctrinaire Julia Child by saying that the best individually flash-frozen peas and berries are sometimes superior to fresh but mediocre local produce."
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