Shadowing Practice: I Bought Every ABANDONED FOOD Product! - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Every day, shoppers pick up food products, push them around the store, and for whatever reason, change their minds.
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Cookies end up in the toy aisle, a box of pasta gets left next to the shampoos, and once you start noticing it, abandoned food is everywhere.
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So it got me thinking, if I collected all the groceries that everyone left behind, what kind of meals could accidentally come together?
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So today, I'm hunting down abandoned food products to see what I can cook with.
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And thanks to HopeScope for this amazing inspiration.
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Starting with Target, where you can find food, toys, and everything in between.
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Okay, let's grab a cart because you don't know how many goodies I'll be able to find here.
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And as I'm walking in, everything looks suspiciously organized.
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I think I found my first abandoned product.
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You wouldn't actually notice it at first because both things are orange, but I spy my little eyes.
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Some M&Ms on top of these Maruchan ramen.
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And already we found our first abandoned item.
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That was easier than I thought.
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Okay, I think we just found another item.
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Wait, why does this feel cold?
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And what is it doing in the women's section?
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Did mom decide that she needed a dress more than soup for her kids?
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But I think now would be a really good time to introduce the rules for this challenge.
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Rule number one, it can't be from the frozen or refrigerated aisle for safety reasons.
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Rule number two, the food package cannot be open.
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And rule number three, it can't be found in the aisle that it belongs to.
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So with that said, I'm gonna go put this back
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and let's see what other fun food products we can find on the way.
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And I'll put it back right here.
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Wait, this Target is crazy!
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This package is open and this package is open.
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Who does that?
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Maybe that should be another video that I do.
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Open packages at the grocery stores.
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But finding food in the food aisle is too easy.
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I am in the beauty section.
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Let's see if we can find any goodies here.
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I'm in the beauty aisle and I'm looking around to see...
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Oh, oh.
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What?
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What?
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Not only are there...
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...whites...
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...a mini purse at the bottom you have to actually be
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walking in order to see this there's a chobani greek yogurt here
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but the thing is it's empty and open like somebody literally drank this
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and hid it in here that's crazy what would you guys
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do about this crazy hi i found this bottle by the
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lip smackers i just want to give it to you thank you Thank you.
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Hmm.
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There's a lot of misplaced items around here, but I don't see any food items yet,
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other than that open one that we already saw.
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Okay, I just saw this end cap with a lot of abandoned items, like these bandages.
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I think somebody got hurt and couldn't decide which was the right bandage for them, but these are not food items, so I can't take them.
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I feel like these end caps are where people normally dump things, but I'm not seeing anything else yet, so we gotta keep going.
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I don't think anyone would dump food by cleaners, though.
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Oh my gosh, they have these mini rice cookers.
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They're so tiny and so cute.
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I love looking at gadgets.
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Okay, we're entering the food area, and here's all the...
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That was almost too easy.
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We have overnight oats shakes. Are these open?
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No, they look like they are still good.
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After the last bite, I don't know, you just have to check.
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We have overnight oat shake, where you just have to add water and refrigerate.
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I think both of these have to count.
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Okay, so since we are in the food items, I feel like things are gonna be scattered everywhere.
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I found another one!
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This is literally too easy now.
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We got some nuts.
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Okay, I think I'm finding some pretty decent things to make something with.
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Something I don't know what.
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I'm just gonna go down all the aisles.
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Ooh, Doritos in the cookie aisle.
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I feel like this isn't really a challenge because obviously food will get displaced around here, so why don't we make it interesting and go to the toy aisle.
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Oh, look, Joyride inside of Magic Spoon.
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But see the display right there?
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Does this technically count as abandoned or just misplaced?
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We have toys and makeup in the dog food aisle.
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Ooh.
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They're open.
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Why do they keep doing that here?
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and half-drunken Dr. Pepper.
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Can't take those.
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Do you guys spot it?
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I spy my little eyes.
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Ramen in the kitty litter box area along with a toilet wand.
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That doesn't belong there.
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Do I have to take both of these?
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Wow.
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Our cart's filling up quite nicely, guys, but I still have to go to the toy section.
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Oh, I found Oreos in the toy section section.
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This is probably the part where mom said no and there was probably some negotiations to be had around here.
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A lot of snacks that I'm finding everywhere.
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Oreos.
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What am I going to make with all of these?
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This is going to be an interesting challenge.
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Okay, we're walking out to the checkout and I just found this.
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Boo-boo-loo-boo.
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I don't even know what this is.
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Marshmallow and strawberry gummy with chocolate flavored coating.
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I feel like that could be interesting.
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I don't know what I would make with this but at least we'll give it a taste test.
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I'm walking up to the checkout and I already see something that shouldn't be there.
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Do you guys see it?
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I feel like the checkout area is also where everyone makes their final decision
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and puts things back randomly just like they did right here.
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Toys, food.
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Okay we have a pretty decent haul.
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This is a lot more than I thought we'd find, but let's head to our next door and see what we can find there.
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And now we're at Costco, where I actually wonder if people make more thoughtful decisions when they have to buy in bulk.
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All right, guys, thank you so much.
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Thank you.
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All right, we just walked into Costco.
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Surprisingly, not super busy, and I haven't seen anything misplaced yet.
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But we're only just getting started.
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I can't go to Costco without getting a sample though.
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This is good lasagna.
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This is too obvious.
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Lego set in between some towels.
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Definitely more negotiations between mom and child.
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Okay this didn't travel too far.
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It was just right across the aisle.
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But now we gotta look for more food.
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And I just ran into a viewer.
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This is Lauren and we really say hi.
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Everything has just been so well organized.
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I haven't found a single thing misplaced yet.
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Wait, we found strawberries in the cookie aisle,
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which isn't super far from where this lives and it's still cold so technically does this count?
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I'm gonna say yes.
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For being such a huge store, I'm actually surprised and shocked right now that there's There's nothing just lying around on top of these bagels.
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Hmm.
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Let's browse the non-food section.
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Okay, so I just spotted this bag of baby spinach next to all the dips.
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And technically, this is still misplaced in a refrigerated item.
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So I feel like this should count as abandoned.
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I think we'll grab this.
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And look what we have.
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Not one, but two boxes of sparkling water.
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in the toilet paper section, which kind of makes sense because the sodas are right across from it, but I don't see a home for these anywhere.
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So I guess I have to buy two of these.
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Maybe it got so heavy they just decided they needed to unload.
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I mean, technically these chips are in the wrong place, but we're still in the chips aisles, so So I don't think that counts.
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Honestly, everything is so well organized.
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I can't find anything at a place.
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There's people going around checking and organizing each aisle.
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Honestly, because there are organizers here, I don't think we're to find anything, but I know the jackpot is usually at the self-checkout,
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so let's see if we can find anything there.
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Okay, we are headed to the checkout line.
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I found an apple cider vinegar near the L-theanine that still supplements.
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Look what we have!
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It's still hot.
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Honestly, I was wondering if we would find the iconic rotisserie chicken anywhere
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and apparently someone decided they didn't want this for dinner.
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So, I said refrigerated, not hot.
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Am I gonna get sick?
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I don't know.
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Five items for $62.
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Hand and fleece.
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Follow the instructions.
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We didn't find too many items at Costco, but I think this is a good assortment.
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So as crazy as Target was, I was actually pretty surprised at how organized Costco is For the size of the warehouse,
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I'm surprised that I only found five things that were abandoned.
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But I have one more place to go.
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And now we're at Whole Foods where people spend their whole paycheck.
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And honestly, I'm not even sure what their spending habits are gonna be like.
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So let's find out if there's any abandoned foods.
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And I'm in the produce aisle and it's looking nearly perfect.
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Perfectly organized.
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Not a single grape out of place.
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It's literally perfectly organized here.
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There are workers everywhere in every aisle.
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So I think that's how they're able to maintain everything perfectly.
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I've walked through the produce section and then I walked through the meat section and I couldn't find anything.
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Now I'm just going up and down the aisles hoping to find something.
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My cart is empty.
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The aisles are still perfectly organized.
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It feels a little dystopian to me because even the end caps, which usually are a complete mess, are perfectly lined.
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Every single end cap.
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And she's probably the reason why.
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In every aisle, there's a worker organized.
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So I'm not really sure we're going to find anything here.
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We're in the beauty aisle.
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And at first, I thought it was a shampoo bottle.
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So I didn't think twice but look what we found here.
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It's a creamy sauce, Dandan inspired the bowl cut.
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Could be shampoo, but I found one item.
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Yeah.
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Okay, I walked through just about the entire store and I only found one item that was truly out of place.
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But there's one more section I mentioned to you guys earlier that at the checkout, people typically abandon their foods there.
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So I'm gonna ask a worker to see if there's any food that got left behind.
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Hi, do you have any abandoned foods that people put back here like they didn't want anymore after they came to checkout?
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We do have a cart over there.
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It's a go-back cart.
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You should be able to find some.
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Oh, okay, awesome.
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I'm going to go there.
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Thank you.
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Okay, so here is the abandoned carts where everything that gets left behind at checkout goes.
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Technically, it's already behind and secluded, so I can't really buy anything from there.
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But in case you're wondering, that's what happens to abandoned foods at Whole Foods.
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And here's our haul, or part of it anyways.
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I still have the Costco stuff to bring in.
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But let's see what we have to work with from Target.
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We have the mixed nuts.
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Spicy sweet chili Doritos.
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I'm still not entirely sure what this is.
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Those overnight oats.
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Peanut butter M&M's.
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Why did you have to grab two packets of ramen?
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Some Oreos. And bagels.
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I mean as individual snacks these would be great
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but to make a meal out of them I don't even know where to start.
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Luckily we also have some strawberries from Costco, rotisserie chicken, and this giant bag of spinach.
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Not to mention some sparkling water.
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I'm not going to carry the other one.
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And then Whole Foods.
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Some sauce.
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And surprisingly, I was only able to find one item.
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The question is, what can I create with these?
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It's like I'm on an episode of Chopped.
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I think I have a plan.
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How salty is this?
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Oh, it's salty.
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Okay, I'm gonna add some nuts to the food processor.
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Then, I think we should add these peanut butter M&M's to balance out the saltiness.
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And while we're at it, let's throw in some Oreos and see how this turns out
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Okay that took care of that so now I have a few more things left Let's cook up these noodles Okay,
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noodles are all cooked.
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I think I'm gonna go for a noodle salad type of dish, so while it's hot, let's add our spinach to wilt it a little bit.
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Then I'm gonna throw in some shredded rotisserie chicken and a little bit of the ramen seasoning,
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plus a little bit of our shampoo sauce.
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Okay, let's toss it up.
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Eeeeh, the noodles got all clumpy.
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Water is not a real ingredient, so I'm gonna add a splash just to mix things around a little bit.
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Wee!
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I also have this Yuzu Mandarin sparkling water and hopefully it'll help separate the noodles a little bit while infusing some flavors.
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I can confidently say I have never added sparkling water to my ramen before.
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Hey, but it did the job.
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No more clumping.
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We have one more left.
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This can be our crunchy topping.
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You guys are probably wondering what I was doing with the nuts.
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I made an M&M Oreo nut butter, and hopefully it tastes good, but it looks like.. like a nut butter.
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So let's spread it on our bagel.
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Then I usually like to top my bagels with some interesting things.
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So we're going to add some strawberry slices and I still have to find the use for these boo-boo luboos, which I've never had before.
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Let's give it a little taste test.
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Oh, it's just like a marshmallow candy stick.
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Mmm, so bad.
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You know what?
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We're gonna add some to our bagel.
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Oh, this is actually pretty good.
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The strawberry filling is like a strawberry jelly.
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I feel like this would be really good as s'mores too.
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pretty good fine but i still need real strawberries dessert for breakfast
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or breakfast for dessert but i think i was able to use everything
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that we found to create not one
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but a few meals we even have breakfast for tomorrow this
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one is just your average overnight oats nothing too exciting i just followed the directions
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and added water and milk to the line now we just have to let it set
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but let's try our breakfast item I used the bagels that we found next to the Tide Pod, the marshmallow candy, and strawberries from Costco.
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Along with our Oreo nut butter concoction.
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If this is good, I might just jar it up and sell it.
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You know, that's actually really good.
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It's very balanced.
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It's still like a hint salty from the mixed nuts, but then the M&Ms and the Oreos gave it that chocolatey flavor and sweetness.
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I actually really like that.
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But let's see what our main course is like.
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This reminds me of a college struggle meal, and I think it could work.
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I'm glad that we were able to find some meat.
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This dish could have gone without the meat, and this spinach really makes it a salad.
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Mmm, that's really good.
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Noolani had a good eye and spotted this by the soap.
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And to be honest, I feel like the chicken bouillon powder with this drink could have made the sauce too, but this took it to the next level.
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I'm actually really impressed with all of the abandoned products that we found to make this.
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Sometimes you just gotta use your imagination.
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One man's trash is another woman's treasure.
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I hope you guys like this video.
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Now go watch me test Facebook Marketplaces food.
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Bye!
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “I Bought Every ABANDONED FOOD Product!”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: aisle, item, abandoned. This video has 277 sentences and 2701 words to shadow. The speech runs for 18:14. The speaker talks at a steady 148 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. Only 79% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| aisle noun | /aɪ̯l/ | A wing of a building, notably in a church separated from the nave proper by piers. |
| abandon verb | /əˈbæn.dən/ | To give up or relinquish control of, to surrender or to give oneself over, or to yield to one's emotions. |
| organize verb | /ˈɔɹɡənaɪz/ | To arrange in working order. |
| checkout noun | /ˈt͡ʃɛkˌaʊt/ | The process of checking out of a hotel, or the latest time to vacate a room in one. |
| strawberry noun | /ˈstɹɔˌbɛɹi/ | The sweet, usually red, edible accessory fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria. |
| misplace verb | /mɪsˈpleɪs/ | To put something somewhere and then forget its location; to mislay. |
| noodle noun | /ˈnu.dəl/ | A string or flat strip of pasta or other dough, usually cooked (at least initially) by boiling, and served in soup or in a dry form mixed with a sauce and… |
| ramen noun | /ˈɹɑːmən/ | Soup noodles of wheat, with various ingredients (Japanese-Chinese style). |
| cart noun | /kɑɹt/ | A small, open, wheeled vehicle, drawn or pushed by a person or animal, often with two wheels on one axle, more often used for transporting goods than… |
| technically adverb | /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/ | Based on precise facts, which, however, may be contrary to common belief or casual terminology. |
| refrigerate verb | /ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒəɹeɪt/ | To keep (something) cool by containing within a refrigerator. |
| spinach noun | /ˈspɪnɪt͡ʃ/ | A particular edible plant, Spinacia oleracea, or its leaves. |
| sparkling adjective | /ˈspɑɹkl̩ɪŋ/ | Of an object, reflecting light as if giving off tiny sparks or flashes of light. |
| shampoo noun | /ʃæmˈpuː/ | A traditional Indian and Persian body massage given after pouring warm water over the body and rubbing it with extracts from herbs. |
| overnight adverb | /əʊvə(ɹ)ˈnaɪt/ | During or throughout the night, especially during the evening or night just past. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| walk through verb | To explain (something) to (someone), step by step. | |
| leave behind verb | To abandon. | |
| come together verb | /ˈkʌm tʊˈɡɛðɚ/ | To assemble; to congregate; to combine. |
| fill up verb | To make (something) completely full. | |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. | |
| go around verb | To move or spread from person to person. | |
| go back verb | To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. | |
| go down verb | To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Do you guys spot it?
- Do I have to take both of these?
- Do you guys see it?
- Am I gonna get sick?
- The question is, what can I create with these?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | haven't seen · has just been · haven't found |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | can't be found · be scattered · is still misplaced |
| Advice with “should” should + verb — saying what is a good idea | should be · shouldn't be · should count |
| Past continuous was/were + -ing — an action in progress at a moment in the past | was wondering · was doing |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 101 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shampoo /ʃæmˈpuː/, marshmallow /ˈmɑɹʃˌmɛl.oʊ/, negotiation /nɪˌɡəʊ.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/, dish /dɪʃ/, shake /ˈʃeɪk/
- Long words — get the stress right: technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/, refrigerate /ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒəɹeɪt/, rotisserie /ɹəʊˈtɪ.sə.ɹi/, negotiation /nɪˌɡəʊ.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/, surprisingly /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like aisle, abandon, organize.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.