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Welcome to the A to Z English Podcast. My name is Jack, and I'm here with my co -host, Sochal.
And I'm going to let Sochal introduce today's topic.
All right, students.
Well, I was recently in Oklahoma on a trip.
I'm so sorry. Yes, I feel like, okay, there's a joke, joke a running joke that Ohio is the worst state in America and I don't know why no Florida Florida is so many worst states but like Florida has Miami Oklahoma has to be the worst state I'm sorry Oklahoma I'm so sorry Okies but it's true like it has to be the worst state because Texas has like some cool cities like Dallas and Houston and Austin and um Latino culture and Florida also has like Miami and Latino culture and a lot of Cubans and like there's and it's beautiful like has like so much beautiful nature um but oklahoma like come on i
can't i literally if if any oklahomans or people students who are from oklahoma are listening to this like like exchange students first of all i'm so sorry but second of all tell me something you like about oklahoma because i'm you know wondering anyway i like i like the shape of the state i like how it has like a like a pan handle a little like a literal pan handle yes that is cool about oklahoma anyway um i was at oklahoma and i stopped to eat at a diner and i was like you know what i bet our students may not be familiar with the concept of the difference between a diner like an american diner
and a restaurant and so i told jack like let's make an episode about this and so jack what What would you say is the difference between a diner and a restaurant?
Well, the biggest difference maybe when you walk in the door is at a diner, you just grab a seat.
In a restaurant, you wait to be sat by somebody.
You know what I mean?
It's more formal at a restaurant and a diner is more informal, you know, kind of like a, it's almost like a cafeteria.
They use that word here in Korea to describe like certain restaurants that are like, you know, because I would just call everything a restaurant.
And they would laugh when I called this place called Kimbab Heaven a restaurant because they're like, that's not a restaurant.
That's a cafeteria.
And I think what they meant is like it's a diner, you know, it's like it's cheap.
It's cheaper. It's a fast order, you know, like a short order, you know, so they make it quick.
and you kind of sit yourself you grab your seat that you want to sit at and you drink your coffee you know you get the limit the unlimited uh black you know black coffee um and um there is a waitress uh you know that will come and and take your order but they're not going to be as how can i say it uh fancy like professional professional or night yeah they're just gonna be like it's it's kind of a joke but like you know in a restaurant to be like are you ready to order you know in a diner they say you know what do you have in honey you know something like that yes that's literally exactly what it's
like jack is right on the money about this um that's exactly what it's like and they they call you like honey and sweetheart and diners like what kind of food do they serve jack uh diners you know i think you can get like Like it's a lot of like I'm trying to think of like like BLT, you know, bacon, lettuce, tomato sandwiches or you could probably get some pancakes, you know, flapjacks, some hash browns, some a couple, you know, fried eggs, a chicken sandwich, chicken salad sandwich, a piece of pie, you know, a cup of coffee.
Yeah, that's, you know, it's just like it's very American, Americano, you know.
Yeah. Americana. Yeah.
That's such a great way to phrase it.
You can get like soda, sweet tea or iced tea, black coffee.
You can get like sugar and creamer for your coffee, but you're not going to order a latte at a diner.
they're gonna laugh at you but you you don't need to because there's going to be these little cream packets you know like by your cups and you can just pour the the cream into the into your your america your black coffee and make a kind of a latte there's sugar on the table there's ketchup on the bottle of ketchup on the table probably probably uh yeah mustard i mean it's just it's It's very like down to earth.
It's earthy, you know, like, yeah, you can, you know, people walk in with like, you know, the farmers will walk in with their, you know, denim shirts and denim pants.
And, you know, they're, you know, they're not they don't look like, you know, they've ever worn a suit in their lives, you know, like kind of people.
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Do you want to get outside and play?
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You know, at a restaurant, it's just totally different.
It's just much more like kind of I don't want to say upscale because people will sometimes, you know, go to restaurants and they'll wear shorts and T -shirts these days because everyone dresses like garbage, which is a totally different episode.
We should talk about it.
Everyone dresses like crap now everywhere.
I think it's like a universal maybe Europe.
Yes. still dress nice uh in mexico people still wear like clothes out whereas like um whereas it like you're not gonna wear sweatpants out i think well we just wear pajamas now all 24 7 in america yeah yeah um but they're my good pajamas you know when i go out um yeah this is so true there's definitely another episode because we have so much to say about this yeah so i'll stop well no no you're fine you got to save it for the next episode because i'm excited to hear about this the way jack is describing diners right now is like giving me asmr jack do you know what asmr is yeah yeah like whispery
sounds it's just like it just really paints a picture like bob ross in the best way like yeah it's just so americana it's like if you are visiting america you have to go to a diner and just check it out i think that anyone visiting America will enjoy like the quintessential American cuisine and you can get like a patty melt or a burger or, you know, flapjacks.
And just picture like a big, uh, glass pane, you know, window, like, um, with all these booths with a formica tables, you know what I mean?
Like that's the, you know, yes, Jack is really selling this.
Like, that's exactly what it's like, but but I really hope, you know, to our listeners, if you go, you absolutely have to stop in an American diner.
It's just like such a quintessential American experience.
You know, I just assumed they existed everywhere, like in the world, you know, I was so kind of American centric, you know, thinking and then I haven't been to a diner in like 10 years or, you know, since the last time I went to America.
So I would love to go to a diner again.
I love them they're fantastic they have them in Korea but they're like really overpriced and they're terrible obviously it's just you gotta go to a real one it's not like a replica it doesn't work you have to go to a real diner for real and then a restaurant I guess is just very as Jack already had mentioned it's just so much more it doesn't necessarily have to be more formal in a way because as Jack said people can still dress casually or sometimes the menu can be more casual but it's just a different vibe like you can get it there's more variety of different foods thus the server is like is less
down to earth it's more formal usually you have a hostess up front who seats you a waitress there's like a bus boy that goes around collecting the plates it's more expensive and it's more more kind of uh whatever kind of restaurant you're going to a steak restaurant or are you going to a italian restaurant you know what i mean like it's just it'll be a type of food you know um diner food is a little more um varied i guess yeah more casual yeah it's more casual and you get like a subset of just very american staple foods yeah and again you're not going to order a latte or like a you can order a latte
but uh the the uh the guys in the next booth will will pick you up and throw you out the front door you know you don't belong here throw you through the glass pane window so anyway if you find yourself in the worst state in america oklahoma sorry oklahoma then you absolutely have to eat at a diner because you will enjoy it and be careful about the mosquitoes let's do a podcast just do a podcast episode about oklahoma next time but those mosquitoes are scary i've never seen mosquitoes that large in my entire life and i was horrified when one landed on me it was green i've never seen a mosquito
that big it was it was horrifying anyway students if you like this episode want to hear more episodes like this, make sure to leave us a comment down below.
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