Hi, my name is Evie and this is a video in slow English to help you practice your listening comprehension.
This is classic.
Today we are going to eat british food that includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Now I know that British food has a bad reputation.
Lots of people think that British food is not very good.
I completely disagree.
I actually really enjoy British food.
So today I wanted to show you a few different British dishes, or different British food really.
So right now I
We are in the car and the plan is we are going to drive to a cafe and we're going to have a full English breakfast.
A full English breakfast is also known in the UK as a fry up.
Mostly because a fry up or a full English is made up of foods that are fried, not like deep fried, like a lot of American food, but fried in a pan.
We are going to drive to the cafe and I will show you the full English.
I will try my best to film but I think the cafe is going to be very busy.
And I'm a bit shy.
I'm a bit shy about filming in public.
So I will try my best, okay?
I will try my best.
And yeah, I will see you at the cafe.
Of what?
Of a guy doing this latte art, which is different.
Honestly, cinnamon feels so fucking different to me.
That looks so good.
Thank you.
It's very busy in the cafe.
I'm not sure if you can actually hear me.
But we have ordered a full English breakfast, a vegetarian full English breakfast.
I can show you what that actually looks like, basically.
A full English, traditionally, is made with meat.
So it's sausage meat, which is made of pork, so pig.
Pork, sausages and bacon.
However, I am a vegetarian, so I have a veggie full English, a vegetarian full English, and normally that is served with a vegetarian sausage and halloumi.
So I'm really excited because I actually love a full English.
I think it's really good and it has a bad reputation, which is unfair.
In particular.
I think people don't like baked beans or are kind of confused by what baked beans actually are.
So baked beans are navy beans, a white bean, and it's served in like a tomato sauce.
So when you see baked beans, I know it looks like water, but it's just a tomato sauce with with beans.
A fry up also has normally toast and a fried egg and fried mushrooms and fried not fried grilled tomatoes.
It has grilled tomatoes as well.
So we have a fry-up which is also known as a full English.
So a full English is a fry-up.
Basically you eat it by just getting a little bit on your fork.
So I will take like a small bit of the sausage or the beans and the mushrooms and It's honestly really good.
We normally only have a full English if we are eating out, if we are eating out in a cafe or getting brunch.
Brunch is like a meal halfway kind of combined of breakfast and lunch.
It's brunch.
And that's normally the only time that we actually will have a full English.
It also is something that people like to have when they are hungover.
So if people go out drinking the next morning, they like to have a full English as recovery food.
They like to eat a full English to recover from it. their hangover.
I do not have a hangover today but I just wanted to show you a full English.
It's the... it's the next day.
Yesterday my British food plans were disrupted, So I ended up eating something different for lunch and for dinner.
So we are going to continue the day of British food from today.
We're going to get a Cornish pasty and I will show you what that is in a moment.
So we're going to order the pasties and go and pick them up.
We have picked up lunch.
So our lunch today is a Cornish pasty.
I am from Cornwall, which is an area in the UK down in the south, and a pasty is our national.
It's like our national dish here in Cornwall and we are very famous for them.
So I have two pasties here.
One is a traditional pasty which is steak, and because I am vegetarian, I have a cheese pasty.
It looks like, it looks like this.
So that is a pasty.
It's cheese because it has a C on it.
And a pasty is basically like a handheld pie.
It's a pie that you can hold in your hands.
So Inside of here is onion turnip, which some people call swede turnip potato, and I have cheese, but traditionally you have steak.
This area of the UK, in Cornwall, was traditionally a mining region, so we had lots of miners working in the mines and when they wanted to eat their lunch, on their hands would be all of these dangerous minerals, and they couldn't wash their hands in the mine.
So the point of a pasty you can eat it without getting any of the dangerous chemicals on your food.
This here is where you are traditionally supposed to hold the pasty and you eat the bit here in the middle.
You eat this section.
Nowadays nobody eats a pasty like this.
Instead, we have it in the bag like this. and this is traditional from Cornwall.
If you visit the UK.
If you visit the UK, my recommendation is do not have a pasty unless you are in Cornwall.
They do make pasties in other cities.
So if you are in London you will see pasties for sale, but they are not very good.
If you want to have a proper pasty you have to have one in Cornwall.
So this is the meat pasty.
So you can see the steak.
Mine is just vegetables and cheese, but it's still really good.
We have just finished the pasties and I think I need to walk it off.
Like we say that we need to walk something off when you've eaten food that is really filling, food that makes you feel very full.
So you need to go for a walk. to feel better.
So we're going to go walk off the pasties and I will see you in a little bit.
Excuse me.
It's now time for dinner.
It's the last meal of the day.
We have come down to the seaside to have fish and chips.
Obviously, fish and chips is the classic British food and actually we like to eat British food in the car or outside.
Today it's quite cold.
You can maybe tell it's quite cold, so We're going to eat the fish and chips in the car.
But if you go to the UK in a summer day, the tradition, the proper thing to do, the right thing to do, is eat outside.
We're very lucky.
It's an incredibly gorgeous evening.
I mean, look at the sunset.
I'm hungry.
We're in the car.
This is our view.
It's beautiful, gorgeous sunset again.
Obviously, as a vegetarian, i don't eat fish.
Um, i don't eat fish, but if i was a pescatarian, i would eat fish.
So i have a different order when it comes to fish and chips.
But if you want to see the classic, this is classic fish and chips with cod.
So cod is a white fish.
And I have, I have just chips and batter bits.
So this is batter.
This is batter with no fish.
We also both have sides, so we have tomato ketchup and these little pots.
Here are respectively Curry sauce and mushy peas.
These are the forks, little wooden forks.
With fish and chips you usually, well not usually but most people get a side.
I get mushy peas which honestly I'm scared to show you because you're going to think it looks shit.
But I love it.
I love it.
So these are peas mashed up.
Okay.
These are mushy peas.
I swear, I swear, I swear.
They're really good.
Javier, who is with me, he prefers curry sauce.
Curry sauce honestly probably looks worse.
It's basically like a slightly spicy turmeric flavoured Sauce.
I swear, I swear it's really good.
And people will like dip their chips in this.
They will dip their chips in it.
And it's nice.
Curry sauce, mushy peas and ketchup, and this is how we are going to eat our fish and chips.
Let me just do this.
Oh, that looks so.
The mushy peas are horrible, but they're really good.
Maybe if i mix them is that better.
They're really salty and they're covered in vinegar.
So they taste amazing.
And the batter is really nice as well.
And I'm having it with a can of Pepsi.
I love Pepsi.
We, we are going to eat and I will see you.
I will see you later.
It was really, really tasty.
I love fish and chips, but it is junk food, okay?
Before you comment, like, why have you eaten no vegetables today?
No protein.
I know.
This is like British junk food.
It's food that is bad for you.
But again, it's like a treat, okay?
It's something you have to... Yeah, because it's nice.
You have it because it's nice, not because it's good for you.
I'm here with the lighthouse in front of me and I think it's probably time to go to bed.
Anyway, I hope that you enjoyed this video.
I have lots of other videos on my channel where I vlog in slow English.
So I hope to see you in another one.
Thank you so much for watching and I will see you next time.
Bye!
