Pratica di Shadowing: Learn English while I share my favourite British Food with you - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

Good morning!

Today is a little bit rainy, so I'm going to stay inside and share with you some of my favorite British foods.

And at the end of the video, I will tell you how British people really drink tea.

But first, I'd like a coffee.

Coffee machine.

I couldn't live without this.

So I'm going to make a coffee now.

I have the coffee pod.

And I need to put this inside my Nespresso machine.

Like so.

Pressing the button.

Nothing's happening.

Maybe it's not plugged in.

Okay, it is plugged in.

Oh, I forgot.

I have to press these two buttons and wait.

So while I'm waiting, I've got my mug.

I like this one because it has a big handle.

I can see you.

It's good for me because I have big hands, so I can grip this mug.

I like it.

Feels sturdy in my hands.

My second favorite mug.

I like this mug because it's colorful.

It has some abstract patterns on the mug.

My only problem with this mug compared to this mug, look at the difference in the handles.

The handle on this mug is much bigger.

Good for my hands.

The handle on this mug is a bit small, so I can only fit my finger inside.

Not as good.

Finally, this has to be one of my favorite mugs, because I love this character.

Baby Yoda.

This little guy is very cute, and yeah, I bought this recently.

It's not actually very practical

because the rim of the mug here it's hard to drink out of

but baby odors cute so I had to make the purchase.

I had to buy it.

Now let's make some coffee.

I need to fill this little tank up with water.

I just filled this plastic container,

now I'm attaching it to the coffee machine and which mug do I want?

I think I want the red one with a big handle, it's my favorite.

Put the mug on there, press my coffee button and this is This is where the magic happens.

So while the coffee's coming out, I'll take my milk.

This is oat milk.

I prefer oat milk now.

It's a little bit sweeter.

Pouring my oat milk in the mug.

This is the cap or the lid.

I'm screwing it on and, ah, my favorite moment of the day.

Cheers.

So I've been online and I bought lots of foods.

The foods are in this big green bag.

We call this a bag for life.

It's essentially a bag that you can use over and over again.

So it's reusable.

That's nice.

Save the environment.

Today I'm going to share with you all the foods that I have inside here.

So firstly, when I was a kid, I would eat something called cereal.

And I've got some Coco Pops here.

I need a bowl.

Can't drink cereal without a bowl.

So, I've got my bowl.

I need a spoon.

Okay, I have my bowl.

This bowl is a watermelon bowl.

You can see the black watermelon seeds inside.

and the edge is like a watermelon skin.

I have my spoon, my Cocoa Pops, as you can see I'm quite excited now.

Okay I'm opening the box of Cocoa Pops, taking out the plastic packet.

Now I pour my milk.

Oh yes, that's the good stuff right there.

Magic.

Okay, I've got my spoon and I'm ready to dig in.

So I'm eating cereal right now, my box of Coco Pops.

But in Britain, on the weekends, Brits tend to eat something called a full English,

an English breakfast, which you may have heard of.

An English breakfast is quite unhealthy.

It's got things like sausages, bacon, fried eggs, hash browns.

We've got, what else?

fried bread. So good.

I love the rain.

Right let's see what we have next.

I'll just put this away and my milk goes in fridge.

Alright, now one of my favorite snacks as a kid is the humble banana and here I have a bunch of bananas.

Let me take off the cling film.

Yep, taking off the cling film.

Getting rid of that.

Why do I love bananas so much?

Actually I've got a bit of a problem with fruit.

Now a lot of fruit for me is too difficult to get into.

It requires too much effort.

So my theory is that bananas are the best fruit because look at this minimal effort.

All right I've got my banana skin it's already packaged no plastic don't need anything simple peel it,

eat it, enjoy it.

This banana is ripe.

I had some green bananas before and they weren't ripe but this is definitely ripe.

Delicious.

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Let me put the bunch back in the fruit bowl.

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Oh, excuse me.

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Pardon me.

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I just burped and I pardoned myself.

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In England we're very polite.

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We often say, pardon me.

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Let's see what else we have in the back.

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All right, another thing that is very common for Brits to eat is baked beans.

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And I have the ring pull on the top here.

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I would open the tin of beans.

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What goes on our beans?

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Well, Well we like to have beans on toast.

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Toast is bread that you put in a toaster.

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Cheese.

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Specifically cheddar cheese.

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Now this is just about my favourite food in the world.

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Nice mature English cheddar cheese.

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And this is a block of cheddar cheese.

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And I love this stuff far too much.

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If I didn't exercise, I would be very fat.

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But I do exercise, so thankfully I'm not too fat.

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I eat cheese all the time.

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I'm a cheese fiend.

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Slightly addicted.

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Alright, let's put our beans away and our cheese back in the fridge.

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What do we have next?

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I think we should move on to snacks.

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and there's no better snack than crisps.

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We say crisps in the UK and these are fried potato with spices on.

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So one of my favorites is Pringles.

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I absolutely love Pringles.

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I used to go camping with my family

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and we would always take a tube of Pringles like this one except bigger

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and me and my brother used to fight over the Pringles.

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Another very British crisp is this brand here Tyrrells.

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Hand-cooked English crisps.

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The flavor is sea salt and cider vinegar which is a fancy term for salt and vinegar.

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A very common flavor.

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So I'm gonna open this packet.

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opening the packet of crisps and we say sharing is caring so there you go Cheers!

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Excellent!

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These are one of my favourite snacks.

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I actually prefer savoury food.

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Savory food is anything that's not sweet.

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So it could be crisps, cheese, pasta.

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Okay, I'm gonna put these back in the cupboard.

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Okay, so on the topic of snacks, we're gonna move to the sweet snacks.

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I have ordered some chocolate.

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First, we have probably my favourite chocolate bar ever.

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a Kinder Bueno.

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And the reason why I love Kinder Bueno's so much is because they're really delicate.

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There is a wafer, a very light wafer, and a kind of hazelnut cream inside.

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It's really light.

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It's not too rich.

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So for me, it's a very nice sweet snack.

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Not too sickly.

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when something is sickly it's extremely sweet that it makes you feel sick.

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The final chocolate bar that I want to show you is the Cadbury dairy milk.

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This is a classic British people love the dairy milk it's probably the number one chocolate bar.

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Cadbury is a British company and I grew up eating this chocolate bar all the time

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and this is the fruit and nut version.

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I like the fruit and nuts inside because it gives a nice texture.

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There's a bit of crunch from the nuts and a bit of extra sweetness from the fruits.

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Let's put these away.

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Potatoes, potatoes.

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Where are you potatoes?

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I swore I bought potatoes.

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Ah.

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Potatoes.

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These potatoes are in a plastic bag.

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So, I'm going to peel these potatoes.

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And for that, I need a peeler.

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I'm peeling the potatoes.

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You may ask, Jay, why are you peeling those potatoes?

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well my friend I'm peeling these potatoes because I'm going to make fish

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and chips for my dinner later

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or my tea as we say in the north of England chips are a huge part of British culture

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and they are usually sold in chippies.

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A chippy is a fish and chip shop.

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We use the term chippy.

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The main thing that chippies sell is fish and chips.

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The fish is usually battered and then it is deep fried in hot oil.

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The same is true for the chips, the potatoes.

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Usually in the chippy, the potatoes are cut into chunky chips,

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big chunky chips, which they then deep fry in the hot oil too.

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Second potato, done.

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Fish and chips was popularized in the 19th century by the working class of Britain.

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They would eat fish and chips because it was a meal that filled their bellies.

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It was very filling and very hearty.

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Nowadays fish and chips is eaten usually by the seaside.

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The seaside is the beach.

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I have very nostalgic memories of eating fish and chips by the beach.

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When I think of those memories I feel warm and happy.

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Nostalgic.

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One thing to watch out for Or if you do ever go to Britain, watch out for the seagulls,

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because the seagulls often steal, pinch your fish and chips.

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Watch out for those pesky seagulls.

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Alright, I've peeled my potatoes, now it's time for the most British thing of all.

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Drumroll please.

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Tea!

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Us Brits love a cuppa.

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We drink about 100 million cups of tea per day,

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which averages out at 2.7 cups per person.

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Madness.

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This is Yorkshire tea and it's the nation's favourite brew.

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I am a big fan of it.

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I love it.

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Probably because I'm Yorkshire.

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I'm biased.

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Here on the box it says let's have a proper brew.

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A brew is another name for a cuppa and a cuppa is a cup of tea.

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So why don't we make a cuppa right now and I will show you how us Brits like to enjoy it.

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First I need the kettle.

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We pop the tea bag in the mug, pour over the boiling water from the kettle.

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Now we wait and let it brew for two minutes.

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Two minutes up!

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Alright, let's add a splash of milk.

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Whoops, I spilt some milk.

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Uh oh.

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Now, I will take out my tea bag.

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I'll do this over the sink.

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Excuse me, be back in a second.

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Alright, I'm back.

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A cup of tea.

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Okay, now here's the secret.

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A cuppa is not a cuppa without one secret ingredient.

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The biscuits.

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To British people, biscuits and tea are more than just a snack.

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They are holy.

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They are sacred.

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They are a religion.

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Brits cannot live without biscuits and tea.

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Well, there's only one thing left to say.

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Cheers.

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Thank you and have a lovely day.

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Bye-bye.

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