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Chicken with a portion of potatoes, tinned (5)

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I believe the answer is:

capon

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'chicken' is the definition.
(capon is a kind of chicken)

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(Other definitions for capon that I've seen before include "for lunch, perhaps" , "Castrated fowl, for eating" , "Male chicken for eating" , "one fattened specially" , "Castrated rooster fattened for eating" .)

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