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Rory, are you eating in the middle of our recording?
What are you eating?
Oh, sorry. It's just that I got this chocolate from a friend and it's really good and I couldn't wait.
Stop it. Stop it? Just stop eating.
We are recording. Rory, come on.
Let's talk about chocolate then.
Chocolate Delicita is back on the podcast. Yum, yum, yum.
Do you like eating chocolate?
Doesn't everyone? I probably like it a bit too much, if I'm honest. My protein shakes are often chocolate -flavoured, and even some of the bars I eat have similar flavourings, so I think it's safe to say that I really enjoy it.
How often do you eat chocolate?
Depends on the type.
If we mean something like a milk chocolate bar, then maybe, I don't know, maybe like once a week.
But if it's something with a chocolate flavour, then that's a daily occurrence.
What's your favourite chocolate flavour?
I really like white chocolate, actually, though I'm told it's one of the worst for you due to all the additives in it.
I quite like mint chocolate chip as well, when I have ice cream.
That's a good combination, at least in my opinion.
Is it good to use chocolate as gifts to others?
Well, assuming you're not giving it to a diabetic, yes.
Then again, you do get sugar -free chocolate these days, so maybe that wouldn't be so bad.
It's easily accessible.
This is chocolate in general.
It's easily accessible.
And if you're in a rush, it should be okay, like, 99 % of the time.
Did you often eat chocolate when you were a kid?
Yeah, again, probably a bit too much since I used to be a large child.
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My protein shakes are often chocolate -flavored.
So Rory drinks these shakes, which are chocolate -flavored.
Or, for example, you can say, my porridge is chocolate -flavored.
My coffee is chocolate -flavored.
What do you have in the morning?
I don't know. My fruit is chocolate -flavored.
My fruit is chocolate flavored because my fruit is chocolate.
My water is chocolate flavored.
So if you add chocolate, something becomes chocolate flavored because it has this chocolate flavor taste, chocolate taste.
And I have some bars.
So we call this little thingies chocolate bars, like Snickers, Nuts, Twix, the other ones like chocolate bars with similar flavorings and what's the difference between a flavor and flavoring i well the flavor is what the actual thing tastes like but flavoring is something that's used to make something different taste like that previous stale it's like a cover almost that makes it look different or taste different in this case we can say like artificial flavorings when they add something to food or drink and we can say that i like chocolate flavor when the examiner asks you how often do you do
something you can say i often usually rarely hardly ever like almost never like once a week twice a week every day and you can say that it depends on the type because there are lots of chocolate types we can have a chocolate bar or a milk chocolate bar or we can have like a hot chocolate for example to drink and usually like once or twice a day or once or twice a week really you have like a chocolate bar once twice a week maybe i don't think it's a very common occurrence no um unless the protein bars that are flavored like chocolate count but many people would say that doesn't count that's a different
product and the question is like my favorite chocolate flavor is what white chocolate rory told us although i realized that's the color but i think we all know what white chocolate tastes like or i like mint chocolate chocolate chip yeah mint chocolate chip chip is like little little thingies, like little chips of chocolate.
And when I have ice cream, I usually ask for some mint chocolate chips.
It's a good combination.
If we talk about different chocolate flavors, for example, we can have spicy chocolate or lavender chocolate.
Lavender, is this...
What's lavender? What is lavender?
Is that a plant that's got a particular taste, as far as I know.
An educated native speaker.
Lavender. A plant that has grey -green leaves and it's like, when it blooms it's beautiful because of these purple flowers.
And it has this nice smell.
Delicious. And we can say that I enjoy lavender chocolate, dark chocolate, milk chocolate, vanilla chocolate, for example.
Rose chocolate. Like they put some, you know, like petals of roses in the chocolate coconut chocolate chocolate peanut also like different kinds of nuts peanut chocolate for example or hazelnut chocolate here just a good idea is for you to remember two words very specific words dear listener for example i love lavender chocolate and and hazelnut chocolate beautiful okay so just remember two specific words for types or like flavors of chocolate yeah then you can also say like oh i enjoy swiss chocolate from switzerland why is swiss chocolate so good or so famous even i should say because Because Swiss
chocolate is known for its smooth texture and creamy flavor.
Oh, fancy. Yeah. And this chocolate in Switzerland, they make it with a higher percentage of milk than other types of chocolate.
So they put more milk and that's why it's creamy.
It's, you know, smooth.
And it's less sweet than other types of chocolate.
Swiss chocolate. network's busy taxes and fees extra seem in mobile .com and you can say that i like swiss chocolate because it has a delicate and velvety texture dear listener okay so now you are a chocolate connoisseur you're like an expert on chocolate even if you hate chocolate dear listener just use the words if we ever decide to stop doing this maria's got a career ahead of her in Chocolate connoisseuring Or chopseteering Yeah you can also say that I like Truffles Like chocolate Balls And I like chocolate fondue Roy do you say fondue?
I say fondue but Some people will say fondue And I think that will be fine too Because as far as I'm aware That's a French word So the French pronunciation will also work here Fondue a cheese fondue or a chocolate fondue when we have hot chocolate and you put different i don't know fruits and stuff in there belgian chocolate swiss chocolate yeah belgian waffles you know yum yum yum with chocolate and you can have them by themselves or in combination so that just means together like mint and chocolate together you can give chocolate to different people as a gift. So, don't say present people with chocolate.
No, no, no. Give chocolate as gifts to others or just give chocolate for people's birthdays.
And if a person is diabetic, so he's a diabetic, he has a person who has diabetes.
So, a disease disease in which the body can't control the level of sugar.
We have sugar -free chocolates or sugar -free chocolate.
Well, we have chocolate without sugar.
We have dark chocolate, for example.
Yeah, it's complicated, you know.
Vegan chocolate, soy -free chocolate.
I don't know, do they have chocolate in this chocolate?
You can say that if I'm in a rush and I need to give a present i might pick chocolate but i don't usually give any chocolates to people or i might give handmade chocolate swiss chocolate or a box of expensive truffles truffles are these like chocolate balls chocolate balls okay you've made your point yum yum yum stop it get some help i was hoping you would only say it the one time but now you've discovered you can get away with it on this episode.
When I was a child, I ate chocolate probably a bit too much. So I ate a lot of chocolate.
We use used to. I used to eat a lot of chocolate.
I used to eat chocolate every day.
And we know that Rory was a large child.
So Rory was fat as a child.
He was really big. so he ate a lot of chocolate and I ate chocolate which was packed with sugar so lots of sugar lots of chocolate yam yam yam well it might be yummy but it's bad for you well yeah especially chocolate with sugar but these days you can get some sugar -free chocolate chocolate without chocolate I don't know like what What can't we get these days?
And to wrap it up, we have a chocolate joke.
Rory, are you ready for a chocolate joke?
Do I have a choice but to be ready?
No, no, no, you don't.
You just say, it's a rhetorical question.
You say, yeah, of course, Maria, shoot.
And Rory, the joke has a question.
So I read out the question, you keep silent.
So you don't have to answer it, okay?
I love it. Yeah, instructions.
Introductions and dear listener, also kind of like, you think about the question and then you listen for the answer.
So, Rory, do you answer the question in the joke, yes or no?
No, I don't answer the question in the joke.
Rory, do you laugh at the end of the joke?
If it's funny, yes.
Right. Okay. So, when we talk about sweets products, we call them sweets or candies.
Candies. So a candy is something sweet.
So the joke is, what kind of candy is never on time?
What kind of candy is never on time?
Chocolate. Stop it.
Get some help. Did you get it, dear listener?
Chocolate. So late to be late.
and choco chocolate has this late at the very end but we say like chocolate or chocolate so what kind of candy is never on time so what kind of candy is always late and we say chocolate Rory did you laugh I didn't hear your laughter I laughed internally thank you very much for listening bye RACE THE RUTTERS, RAISE THE SAILS, RAISE THE SAILS!
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Do you like eating chocolate?
Doesn't everyone? I probably like it a bit too much if I'm honest. My protein shakes are often chocolate flavored and even some of the bars I eat have similar flavorings.
so I think it's safe to say that I really enjoy it.
How often do you eat chocolate?
Depends on the type.
If we mean something like a milk chocolate bar, then maybe...
Oh, I don't know, maybe like once a week?
But if it's something with a chocolate flavor, then that's a daily occurrence.
What's your favorite chocolate flavor?
I really like white chocolate actually, though I'm told it's one of the worst for you due to all the additives in it.
I quite like mint chocolate chip as well when I have ice cream That's a good combination at least in my opinion Is it good to use chocolate as gifts to others?
Well, assuming you're not giving it to a diabetic, yes Then again, you do get sugar -free chocolate these days so maybe that wouldn't be so bad It's easily accessible This is chocolate in general is easily accessible And if you're in a rush, it should be okay like 99 % of the time Did you often eat chocolate when you were a kid?
Uh, yeah, again, probably a bit too much since I used to be a large child.
But it was so nice, um, probably because it was packed with sugar.
