Pratica di Shadowing: Boomers vs Gen Z: Trying Childhood Dishes - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

I wouldn't give it to a child.

I think it would ruin their taste buds for life.

I'd struggle to give it to my cat.

I'm Andy Norman.

I am a boomer.

Priscata Meadleith.

I'm half Spanish, half Irish.

My name's Valerie Crossley.

I'm 77 years old.

I am most definitely a boomer.

My name is Fred.

I'm Gen Z.

And today we're trying childhood dishes.

Rationing was still on when I was born.

Well, it was always pretty basic, pretty much the same every week.

Have you been on the show before?

I have, yes, and thank you for inviting me back.

This is my third time.

I'm also slightly terrified to be back because Andy is in the competition and is a force to be reckoned with.

Wowie, look at that.

I'm hoping that the proof will be in the eating.

It doesn't look too bad.

It's bangers and mash, but it's a very glamorous version of, because we never had this.

We'd have had sausages with sauce on it.

I mean, our mums didn't have time, you know, to make an onion gravy.

I've made an onion gravy and there's also red wine in the gravy which is awfully chic.

I got up at five this morning to do this and the spuds, it's not all remash.

I left the skins on the spuds because that's the most nutritious part of the potato.

Ooh.

I can tell you straight away what this is.

Good old bangers and mash.

We've got some mash, we've got like an onion gravy and then we've got two sausages.

It looks good.

The mashed potato looks very homemade.

It was.

It's got to be pork sausages really, because back in the day, they didn't have the fancy mancy ones like chicken sausages and turkey sausages.

These are fancy mancy and they're chicken.

I can't get it out of the bowl.

Come on Fred, get it in your mouth.

That's it.

It's not the first time, is it?

Are they corn sausages?

I would never, darling.

It's chicken.

I think it's got some butter in there.

Yes.

I think the onion could be cooked a wee bit more.

Yeah, I think you're right actually, Briscoe.

Yeah.

It certainly is a dish that we had all the time when we were growing up, but that's very nice and he's done that beautifully.

Oh.

You can't smell this on camera, but this smells phenomenal.

Oh, Fred, I take back everything I said about you.

My only little thing.

The sausages in my mind, and this is a me problem, they are not meat, they are veggie.

We could be having another canned chilli incident where I accuse someone of using store-bought chilli.

That's chilli from a can.

Bullshit!

Is it chilli from a can?

It's not!

I don't know now if this is meat or not.

I don't think it is.

I'm really embarrassed if it is meat.

I feel like I would have put a bit of milk or some sort of liquid into the mash so it was a bit creamier.

Yeah, I like the rougher texture you see.

Okay, I'll go 7.5.

A 7 out of 10.

It's really warming my cockles and making me feel happy.

Yeah, it's an eight for me.

Maybe an eight and a half, because it honestly smells so good.

Was it veggie?

No.

So this is chicken nuggets with spaghetti.

And I've made the spaghetti with just a bit of salt.

And I've just put quite a lot of butter in it and quite a lot of mozzarella cheese.

I think they're gonna like it, because it's nothing crazy.

Everybody's had plain spaghetti and chicken nuggets before.

My God, here we go.

All the way from Ireland via Spain.

Woof.

Oh la la.

It looks like a chef.

A mustache, doesn't it?

With a beard.

That's beautiful.

I have to say visually, this is not an appealing dish.

There's no colour to it at all.

This might be the definition of a childhood meal.

This is as beige as...

This is so easy on the stomach.

The stomach might not even know it's in there.

Mmm.

This makes a very pleasant taste.

And these gorgeous little things that look like little fishes.

Mmm.

Bland.

OK, she doesn't seem thrilled about it.

That just tastes like my youth.

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And Prisca, correct me if I'm wrong.

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Is there any ketchup or anything maybe that you used to have with this?

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I actually never liked ketchup because it tasted too industrial and fake for me.

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Now this looks like a chicken nugget.

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I wouldn't eat a chicken nugget if it slapped me in the face.

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That is pretty disgusting.

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Disgusting!

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I wouldn't give it to a child.

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I think it would ruin their taste buds for life.

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What?

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I'm sorry, but this seems a bit extreme.

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And I wouldn't serve it with a pasta, I'm sorry, but I'd struggle to give it to my cat.

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That's a bit extreme in my opinion.

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This is really good.

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The cheesy spaghetti!

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Irish grandma was popping off, you know what I'm saying?

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This is exactly what a childhood meal, I think, is.

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What can I say?

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What more do you want?

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Plain and simple, that's what I'd like to say.

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I'd give it eight.

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Eight?

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Okay.

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Can't believe I'm doing this, but Prisca, I'm going to give you a 10.

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Because I think you've smashed this brief out of the park.

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Oh my God, I'm flattered.

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Well, I hate to do this.

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I don't know who's prepared this.

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And I really don't want to offend anyone.

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So let's go for three.

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I'm a bit shocked.

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The point is most of you aren't subscribed.

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So please, please go ahead and subscribe.

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This is an absolute classic from when I was growing up.

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And this is a mashed potato, a sausage and some garden peas.

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And then to garnish it, we have chambrere.

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I asked the crew if they could not reheat my dish because I cooked it this morning.

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And my theory is the gravy is going to warm it up enough.

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So I need to stop talking because every minute I waste, my dish is getting colder and my points are dropping.

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Okay, come on Val.

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Bangers a mash.

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Ooh, okay.

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So similar to, there's gravy and everything.

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Oh yeah.

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Oh look at that.

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Oh my God, and the gravy as well.

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Is this your jug or did the person, did the chef bring it?

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I wouldn't mind nicking that.

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I'm gonna pour some of the gravy on to the mash.

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Oh, just, mm!

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Plain old bangers and mash, look at that.

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Mm, blimey, the spuds are good.

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Better than mine, you see, because I tried to be posh.

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This looks normal, I have to say.

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Mash looks normal.

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I would say it Milo, on the fact that that is a proper pork sausage.

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Yeah, it's fine.

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This is great news for the second place goal of mine.

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This mash is definitely creamier than the other one.

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I prefer the consistency of it.

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I don't know if he must have made it himself or if he bought a powder.

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The other ones seem to be more homemade, but maybe because they weren't mashed.

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I peeled those potatoes.

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All the peas are lovely.

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Butter.

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Bloody lovely.

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See, I'm so pretentious.

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This is much better than mine.

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You're not, Andy, you're a diamond.

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It's freezing cold, by the way.

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Why is that?

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Did he now?

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I'm going to have to mark him down because of that.

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No!

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I actually wouldn't change anything.

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Maybe I would replace the peas with something else.

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Beans.

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I nearly did beans.

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Do you compare it to the other bags of the mash dish?

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Oh, much nicer.

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I'm sorry, but much nicer because it actually tastes like proper sausage.

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Do you hear that, Andy?

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Yeah, definitely a boomer dish because, you know, we grew up with bangers because they were cheap.

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If that was served up hot from the frying pan and out of the oven, that's definitely got to be a 9 out of 10.

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I would give this a solid 8.5.

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I'd like to give it 10 out of 10.

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It was a mistake to serve it cold.

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I will give it 9 out of 10 because it's bloody lovely.

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It's unpretentious.

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Come on!

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That's absolutely made my day.

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Now this is a real favourite of everybody who grew up who's a boomer will know that liver and bacon featured firmly on the recipe menu every week.

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So we have on the plate here some liver and bacon, lamb's liver, just a bit of mashed potato, plain old mashed potato, good old Brussels.

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And this little delight here is a heart, a lamb's heart that used to be stuffed and roasted.

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I certainly don't think that the Gen Z people would be enamored to eat a heart.

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I don't think they like offal very much.

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I feel like Val's put a heart and soul into this.

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Okay, this looks like a well-balanced meal.

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Oh, wow.

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Oh, no.

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That is major.

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But it's liver and bacon, which is classic.

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What is it?

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It smells phenomenal.

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I don't think many children would actually like Brussels sprouts.

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We weren't given the choice.

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I want to say it's lamb.

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This looks like more lamb, but it looks different to this lamb.

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This almost looks like bread.

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Do you know what?

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We've got to taste it.

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Appearance wise, I would give that 10 out of 10 straight away.

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Oh, thank you.

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I hope you like it.

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The bacon is perfectly cooked.

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Look at that liver.

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This is really good cooking, folks.

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It's so sweet.

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That's definitely lamb again.

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Or it looks like lamb.

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Maybe I'm just booting out.

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wow it'll amy in there i don't exactly know the name of it and i think it's lamb with more lamb and i mean like different cuts but i don't know what or where so what is what is it

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i thought you knew because when you sat down yeah just put a heart and soul into this Oh my god.

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Is this...

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Is it heart?

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Let's cut a piece off and try it.

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Mmm.

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It's lamb.

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What part of the lamb is this?

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Where is a stuffed lamb's heart?

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A stuffed lamb's heart?

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Okay.

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Not sure how I feel about eating lamb's heart, but if I'm honest, it was tasty.

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That is delicious.

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It's like soft is the only way I can describe it.

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Like really tender, really flavorful.

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I'm actually not going to touch the heart.

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You must.

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If it was the ball, I'd eat them.

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Okay, I'm gonna try this.

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Well, that's only bacon, sweetheart.

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Everyone eats bacon.

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I have yet to try the liver, which I'm quite nervous about.

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I don't think this would be a popular childhood meal.

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It's liver and bacon wouldn't be served in schools.

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Okay, I'll give it a go.

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Maybe if I didn't know that it was liver, I wouldn't be so hesitant to eat it.

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It's genuinely really made me smile.

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I didn't think I'd like it as much as I do.

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I'm going to give it a nine.

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One!

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Wonderful gravy.

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I've got to give this full marks.

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Aw.

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Thank you.

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A six.

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Low score.

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Understandably.

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I think I've done too well.

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No.

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No.

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Why not?

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That liver and bacon was fantastic.

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Really?

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You liked it?

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Yeah.

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Did you not like it?

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Aren't you supposed to say yabba dabba dish?

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Yabba dabba doo!

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Good for him.

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Yes, yeah.

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Oh good, I'm so good.

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