Junket
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Junket can refer to:
- an excursion for the purpose of pleasure at public or company expense (see Wiktionary link)
- Junket (dessert)Junket (dessert)Junket is a milk-based dessert, made with sweetened milk and rennet, the digestive enzyme which curdles milk. It might best be described as a custard or a very soft, sweetened cheese....
, a dessert made of flavoured, sweetened curds - Junket (company)Junket (company)Junket is a company that made prepackaged powdered dessert mixes and ingredients for making various curdled, milk-based foods, such as rennet custard, ice cream and rennet tablets. In 1874, Christian Hansen founded Hansen's Laboratorium in Denmark to make rennet extract for the cheesemaking...
, a brand name of rennet tablets and dessert mixes - A movie junket, where entertainment journalists are invited to see and interview the stars of the movie before its release
- A casino junket, where gamblers are flown to an area where legalized gamblingGamblingGambling is the wagering of money or something of material value on an event with an uncertain outcome with the primary intent of winning additional money and/or material goods...
is available and booked into a hotel-casino, both at the junket company's expense, in exchange for a cut of the gamblers' turnover from the casinoCasinoIn modern English, a casino is a facility which houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities. Casinos are most commonly built near or combined with hotels, restaurants, retail shopping, cruise ships or other tourist attractions...