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Adding condiments to food.
This is English as a Second Language podcast episode 1027.
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In this episode, we're going to listen to a dialogue between Orlando and Janine about making your food taste better by adding condiments.
Let's get started.
Hand me that Worcestershire sauce.
Here.
You're not putting that on your burger, are you?
No.
I'm using it for my hot dog.
Wait.
You've put ketchup mustard, mayonnaise and barbecue sauce on your burger, and now you're going to put Worcestershire sauce on your hot dog.
Sure.
You've got to have Worcestershire sauce on your hot dog.
No, I don't.
I don't know anybody else who puts Worcestershire sauce on their hot dogs.
You're missing out.
I just need to add a little steak sauce horseradish, tartar sauce, and a dab of chili sauce.
And this hot dog is ready to eat.
That sounds disgusting.
Is there anything you won't put on your food?
On this food?
Maybe maple syrup.
What?!
!
You're the one missing out.
Hand me that syrup.
That is truly revolting.
To each his own.
Orlando begins this dialogue by saying to Janine, Hand me that Worcestershire sauce.
Worcestershire, W-O-R-C-E-S-T-E-R-S-H-I-R-E, sauce, S-A-U-C-E, is a special kind of liquid made from vinegar, sugar, salt, garlic... what are called anchovies, which are basically small fish.
And it is used often in cooking beef.
Notice that the pronunciation of this word is not...
Like the spelling.
You would think it would be pronounced something like Worchestershire sauce, but it isn't.
It is from the town of Worcester in England, and that's how it's pronounced.
So we say Worcestershire sauce.
Personally, I don't really like it, but Orlando does.
And so Janine says to Orlando, here, meaning here, take it.
She's giving him the bottle.
Janine says, you're not putting that on your burger, are you?
Burger B-U-R-G-E-R is the same as hamburger, a beef patty that is very popular in the US and other countries.
Orlando says, no, I'm using it for my hot dog.
A hot dog is basically a small sausage that is usually placed inside of a piece of bread called a bun B-U-N.
We have hot dog buns, bread that is made especially for eating hot dogs, and hamburger buns.
Janine says, wait, you've put ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, and barbecue sauce on your burger.
And now you're going to put Worcestershire sauce on your hot dog?
Janine mentions several different things that...
Orlando has put on his hamburger.
All of these things that we've been talking about, including Worcestershire sauce, are called in general condiments.
C-O-N-D-I-M-E-N-T-S.
These are things you put on your food to make it taste better, usually after it is cooked.
Some examples of condiments...
I mentioned here ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, and barbecue sauce.
Ketchup K-E-T-C-H-U-P is a thick red sauce made from tomatoes vinegar salt, sugar and a few other things.
That is usually used in the U.S. when you are eating French fries.
Some people, like me, love eating French fries, which are deep-fried pieces of potato with ketchup.
Many people, including me, also like to put ketchup on a hamburger to improve its taste.
Mustard, M-U-S-T-A-R-D, is a thick yellow or brown sauce that is made from mustard seeds as well as vinegar, salt, and a few other things.
Mayonnaise, M-A-Y-O-N-N-A-I-S-E, is a thick, white, creamy sauce made by mixing oil and the yellow part of an egg, what we call the egg yolk, Y-O-L-K, vinegar, lemon juice, and a few other things together, and it produces sauce. something wonderful called mayonnaise.
Finally, there is barbecue, B-A-R-B-E-C-U-E, sauce.
Barbecue sauce is a thick, dark brown liquid that is usually sweet and is used to cook certain kinds of meat in on what we call a barbecue, which is basically an open flame with a grill over it, a series of metal bars that you put the food on.
You can put barbecue sauce on chicken, on pork ribs, the piece of meat that comes from a pig...
Lots of different things can be used with barbecue sauce.
It's very popular in the U.S. for grilling food, outside especially.
Orlando says, sure, you've got to have Worcestershire sauce on your hot dog.
Now, I personally never eat this kind of sauce.
I think I mentioned, but Orlando wants it on his hot dog.
Janine disagrees with Orlando.
She says, no, I don't, meaning I don't have to have that sauce on my hot dog.
She continues, I don't know anybody else who puts Worcestershire sauce on their hot dogs.
Orlando says your missing out.
To miss M-I-S-S out is to not experience something, not to have an opportunity to do something or see something that is good or pleasurable.
I missed out on the baseball game last night.
I didn't have an opportunity to see it.
To miss out is to lose an opportunity to see or participate in something good.
Orlando is telling Janine that she is missing out on the great taste of putting this sauce on hot dogs.
He continues I just need to add a little steak sauce, horseradish tartar sauce and a dab of chili sauce, And this hot dog is ready to eat.
Orlando gives us another list of condiments that are common with some Americans.
The first one is steak sauce.
Steak sauce is a dark brown sauce made from tomatoes vinegar, I think, raisins and a few other things that is sometimes used on steak.
Now, many people think that steak sauce ruins the taste of steak.
Other people think that it helps the taste of steak, especially if the steak is somewhat overcooked.
I think
I don't personally use steak sauce on my steak, but if you go to some restaurants in the US, they will give you steak sauce with your steak if you want it.
Horseradish H-O-R-S-E-R-A-D-I-S-H is a thick, somewhat spicy, white colored sauce or it's not exactly white, but it's close to white.
It's made from vinegar and part of a plant called horseradish.
There's a horseradish plant, which I believe is a kind of cabbage.
Horseradish sauce is very popular on hot dogs in the US.
Again, I don't like it very much, so I don't Put anything on my hot dogs, like horseradish.
Tartar, T-A-R, T-A-R sauce, is a thick, creamy white sauce that is often used with fried seafood.
Things like fried fish.
It's made from mayonnaise, lemon juice...
I believe there's some pickles in there as well as other ingredients.
Tartar sauce is very common when eating fried fish.
Chili sauce is the last thing that Orlando mentions.
Chili C-H-I-L-I sauce is a hot sauce usually made from spicy peppers, as well as vinegar, salt and a few other things.
It's usually red.
If you like your food spicy, and I don't, then you could put a dab of chili sauce on it.
A dab, D-A-B, of something is a little bit.
It's a small amount of something.
Janine, however, says to Orlando, that sounds disgusting.
When we say something is disgusting, D-I-S-G-U-S-T-I-N-G, we mean it is very unappealing.
It's something that would make you sick.
It's something that we might also describe as being gross, G-R-O-S-S.
It's a very negative way to describe food in particular.
Janine says Orlando says.
He says Maple M-A-P-L-E is a kind of tree which is very popular in Canada.
In fact, one of the symbols of Canada, our neighbor to the north, is a maple leaf from the maple tree.
From a maple tree, you get something called maple syrup S-Y-R-U-P, which is a thick, sweet brown liquid that is made from maple trees, technically from what is called the sap S-A-P of a maple tree, which is the liquid inside of the tree.
Maple syrup is often used on breakfast dishes such as pancakes, French toast and other kinds of breakfast foods.
It's very sweet.
Orlando says he wouldn't put maple syrup on his hot dog or hamburger.
Janine is surprised by this.
She says, what?
You're the one missing out, meaning now you are the one who is missing out a good opportunity to taste something good.
She says, hand me that syrup.
So Janine, after complaining about all the things that Orlando is putting on his food, is now going to put maple syrup on her hamburger or hot dog.
Now that really is very unusual.
And Orlando says describes how the average American would probably react to that combination of beef and maple syrup by saying that is truly revolting.
Revolting R-E-V-O-L-T-I-N-G means the same here as disgusting, something that is very gross, especially again referring to food.
Janine then ends with a common expression, to each his own.
To each his own means everybody likes something different.
Each person has his or her own tastes.
And what you may like, I may hate.
This is true with my wife and me.
If she likes something, I usually hate it when it comes to food.
Now let's listen to the dialogue, this time at a normal speed.
Hand me that Worcestershire sauce.
Here.
You're not putting that on your burger, are you?
No.
I'm using it for my hot dog.
Wait.
You've put ketchup mustard, mayonnaise and barbecue sauce on your burger, and now you're going to put Worcestershire sauce on your hot dog.
Sure.
You've got to have Worcestershire sauce on your hot dog.
No, I don't.
I don't know anybody else who puts Worcestershire sauce on their hot dogs.
You're missing out.
I just need to add a little steak sauce, horseradish tartar sauce and a dab of chili sauce, and this hot dog is ready to eat.
That sounds disgusting.
Is there anything you won't put on your food?
On this food?
Maybe maple syrup.
What?
You're the one missing out.
Hand me that syrup.
That is truly revolting.
To each his own.
If you're not listening to the dialogues by our scriptwriter, Dr Lucy Say, you're definitely missing out on a wonderful opportunity to improve your English.
From Los Angeles, California, I'm Jeff McQuillan.
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