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Food they bake badly at Birkenhead? (5)

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I believe the answer is:

kebab

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'food' is the definition.
(kebab is a kind of food)

'bake badly at birkenhead?' is the wordplay.
'badly' is an anagram indicator (letters in the wrong order).
'at' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'birkenhead?' becomes 'b' (head letter of 'birken').
'bake' is an anagram of 'keba'.
'keba'+'b'='KEBAB'

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(Other definitions for kebab that I've seen before include "Food grilled on a skewer" , "Post-pub snack?" , "Cubes of meat on a skewer" , "Shish dish" , "Pieces of meat, vegetables etc cooked on skewer" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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