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Yes, I've got plenty of food for thought.
Food for thought.
We're going to be talking about food today.
Rory, you know, they have a saying that you are what you eat.
So can you actually say that if you are what you eat, you are fast, cheap and easy?
Well, I'm not fast, cheap and easy.
I'm expensive and high in protein, probably.
And slow.
And slow, yes.
Yes, are you a foodie, Rory?
No, I'm not a foodie.
I can eat just about anything, so it's not a big deal for me what I eat.
Is food important to you?
Yes.
If you don't eat, then you die.
It's not so important in terms of the quality because I can eat just about anything.
But it's definitely important just because eating, well, you need to eat to live, basically.
What kinds of food do you particularly like to eat?
I quite like to eat things which are moderately healthy.
I suppose if anything stands out in particular about my diet, it's probably the fact that a lot of things are high in protein, just because I'm lifting a lot of weights right now, and it helps you manage your appetite better.
What kinds of foods are most popular in your country?
I'm not really sure.
I think a lot of people like things which are high in fat and carbohydrates.
I think this is kind of like a leftover from when people had more active lifestyles.
But now, especially in western countries like Scotland, for example, people have more sedentary lifestyles, so they're not moving around as much and that's probably not so healthy.
But it is what they like to eat.
How different is food in your country today from when you were younger?
I think there seem to be two opinions regarding this.
I'm of the opinion that it's not actually changed that much.
I think people are still eating the same things, but it's the fact that they're not moving around as much that makes it so unhealthy.
But I think the other, more popular opinion is that people are eating more fast food, for example, more junk food, more processed food.
And that is contributing to very unhealthy diets.
So that's a big change that's been highlighted by that opinion.
Yeah, and in your country, do people have to finish all the foods on their plate?
You know, like even if you don't like it, you kind of feel you have to finish everything.
I don't think it's one of these things which is socially enforced, but I think a lot of people don't eat the right kind of food and therefore they're always hungry, so they just finish everything because they're so hungry and they don't know when to stop or how to regulate how hungry they are.
What about you?
Do you always finish everything?
I always finish what I eat, but then that's because what I eat is always quite tasty and I know I'm working towards like certain weight goals and things like this.
But if you don't like the food, will you finish it anyway?
Um, well, like I say, I can eat just about anything.
So there are very few foods that I can't eat.
No, can you eat a cockroach or some fried bug?
I've eaten bugs before.
Can you eat a butterfly?
I've eaten bugs before.
I've not eaten a butterfly before.
I don't think you'd get a lot out of eating a butterfly.
Yeah, but you can say I can eat anything.
So, like, can you eat a bird?
Yeah, I eat chicken.
Oh, yeah, chicken is a bird, right, Maria?
Yes, now I know.
Okay.
Rory, which foods do you dislike?
There's only two kinds of food that I really dislike and that is raisins and bananas.
I absolutely cannot stand either of them.
Are you joking?
No, I'm not.
I absolutely hate bananas, which is weird because I know a lot of people like bananas.
But the reason that I don't like raisins or bananas, to be honest with you, is because of the texture.
It's like the way they feel when I'm eating them.
I don't know what it is, but it's just something that makes it gives me the heave.
I don't like it at all.
So, avocados are fine, bananas are not fine.
Avocados are fine, bananas are not.
For me.
Okay, what about banana bread or banana ice cream, gelato?
That's just about okay for me, but I honestly really struggle with it still because it's just.
It's also the smell actually, now that I come to think about it.
It's just got this aroma that puts me off eating them.
I don't know what it is.
Rory, what foods do people in your country buy at the market?
You can buy just about anything at the market these days.
I suppose if you're lucky enough to live in a place that's got a farmer's market, then seasonal foods or seasonal produce, I should say.
So like strawberries in the summer, but then more hardy vegetables and fruits in the winter months, for example.
But you also get more exotic fruits at markets now, just because of things like refrigeration and improvements to food transportation.
How many meals a day do you have?
Right now I have three main ones.
So I have breakfast, lunch and dinner.
But when I'm alone, I probably only have two.
One of them is brunch and one of them is dinner.
It's not terribly exciting, unfortunately.
But I definitely get my three square meals a day just now.
Rory, they say that you should eat to live, not live to eat.
What about you?
Oh, it's a very philosophical question.
I live to eat, basically.
Well, I suppose since I'm on a bit of a health kick right now, I probably eat to live.
And I'm not getting very fat, so I don't live to eat.
We are so different.
What about junk food?
Oh, very rarely.
I don't eat junk food very often at all.
I can eat burgers, but usually it's like that would be at a restaurant.
And I don't know if that counts as junk food, etc.
Like high quality restaurant, for example.
Rory, thank you very much for your answers.
Rory, shall we go over the vocabulary you've just used?
Why not?
Yeah, so I've asked you about you being a foodie.
Who is a foodie?
A foodie, I'm thinking, is someone that's really into their food.
It's like a hobby for them to try different kinds of food.
I think it's also about cooking different kinds of food as well, which people find interesting.
Yeah, so you say, I'm a foodie.
Yeah, Rory is a foodie.
And there are two words, food and meal, right?
So, what's the difference?
Because these words are often mixed up together.
Now, food's like a general term for things you eat, but meals are usually referring to specific times or events.
So, for example, dinner is a meal, but dinner isn't a food.
You have steak.
That's the food that you eat for dinner.
Yeah, and we can say, for example, dinner is my favorite meal of the day.
Yes.
Or I have five meals a day, right?
And you mentioned brunch.
Actually, we don't have this in Russia.
I don't think in any other countries they have brunch.
What is brunch?
Brunch is just like a mixture of breakfast and lunch.
It's two words together to make a new word.
So it's like a meal that you would probably have roughly around about the same time between breakfast and lunch, those normal times.
So maybe like 11 o'clock in the morning.
You'd have brunch and you'd have different foods.
So foods that you would usually eat for lunch and foods that you would normally eat for breakfast, you have them together.
Oh, wow.
So that's a hell of a meal.
That's massive.
No, you don't have to have the same amount, but you can mix up the foods more if it's brunch.
Do you have any bananas there?
People can have bananas.
I don't.
I hate them.
What about... Are you okay watching other people eat bananas?
Yeah, that's okay.
It's not like I have a phobia of bananas or anything.
I just can't eat them myself.
I think they're disgusting.
Do you like yellow?
The color?
The color yellow?
It's okay.
Obviously, I prefer black because that's all I wear these days.
But no, I don't have a phobia of yellow.
It's not a psychological thing at all.
It's a taste thing.
Rory, you've been talking about food and you said that's something high in protein.
Yes.
So what products are high in protein?
Well, I suppose the things that come to mind most quickly are meat and fish.
So things which have lots of protein in them.
But you can also have protein in nuts, I think.
I think so, yeah.
But I don't know if they're particularly high in protein.
I think it's more meats that tend to be high in protein.
Yeah, we have protein, we have carbohydrates, or I can say carbs, right?
Yes, absolutely.
You only say carbs though, you don't really say proteins.
Yeah, proteins, carbohydrates, and the third one is fats.
Yes.
Yeah, we can also say fatty foods, right?
And food high in fat.
Yes.
Do I say food or foods?
You can say whatever you like to be honest with you.
They tend to be used interchangeably.
I suppose foods might be more formal but to be honest it's not such a significant difference.
So your appetite is just your state of being hungry.
So if you have a big appetite, then you can eat a lot of food, but if you don't have much of an appetite, then you only eat small amounts of food.
You can also manage your appetite, which is like controlling your hunger.
You can talk about both of these controlling your hunger and managing your appetite interchangeably.
They're about the same level, I think.
Yeah, also a good word would be diet, but it doesn't mean that you follow a certain diet.
It's just like my diet, everything that I eat, right?
And a nice phrase would be to have a balanced diet.
Yes, absolutely.
So you can have a balanced diet or a diet that is high in protein or high in carbohydrates, this kind of thing.
Diet just refers to the totality of all the food that you eat.
When you talked about people in Scotland, you said that nowadays they have a sedentary lifestyle.
Sedentary, that's a very nice word.
It's a band 9 word.
Bad night word, yes.
And you can use it in the essay, actually.
You can, and you should, if you're writing about food or diet.
So, sedentary lifestyle, when people are not moving around very often, or indeed, very much at all.
So, for example, compared to the past when people had to walk to their work, walk back, move around a lot at work, now we're not moving around so much.
We sit at desks and work on computers, so this is more relaxed, less active, more sedentary lifestyle.
Sedentary lifestyle like sitting down, right?
Becoming a couch potato.
I would say people have sedentary lifestyles or lead a sedentary lifestyle.
When we talk about food, we can say fast food.
What's another synonym for fast food?
Junk food.
Junk food, yeah.
Also, processed food.
What is processed food?
Well, the really really simple answer is processed food is just some kind of food that's been through more than one process.
So in this case, ready-made food, like ready-made lasagna, for example, that's not just food that's being gathered from the field and maybe cleaned up a bit.
That's actually had like salt and sugar, different ingredients. things added to it.
Yeah, it's been processed, right?
So it's not quite fresh.
So processed food... I don't eat many processed foods because I'm good to myself.
Well done, Rory.
That's why I don't know many examples.
I'm proud of you.
Yay.
But I'm not so proud of your dislike of bananas, to be honest.
Well, get over it.
No, my life will never be the same again.
He doesn't like bananas.
Right, we can also say homemade food.
Yeah, so processed food is stuff that's usually put through a factory and has things added to it.
But homemade food is when you buy the original ingredients and make it in your home.
Yep, yep.
About bananas, you said that they make me heave.
What?
Heave?
Yeah, I think in Scotland you say it gives me the heave or gives me the bulk, but it's more common to hear someone say that it makes me heave, which means it makes me feel sick.
It's more accurate in terms of describing exactly how you feel when you feel sick because of certain kinds of food, like the feeling in your stomach, for example.
Yeah, it's basically like heave, puke, vomit.
I'm sorry, but this is what it is.
It is.
You can say something makes my stomach heave.
Makes my stomach turn.
That's a good one.
Turn.
Right.
Like, what makes your stomach turn?
Like, basically, what foods do you hate?
Right.
So, Rory hates bananas.
So, bananas.
And raisins.
And raisins, right?
So they make his stomach heave or turn.
But if I say it makes my stomach heave, will people understand me?
Like Americans, British, Australians, Canadians?
I think so.
I think the expression is kept nicely intact by that.
It's not the most accurate use but it certainly conveys the meaning quite successfully.
Yeah, Rory, you mentioned another one.
The smell puts me off.
Right?
For example, the smell of fish puts me off.
Puts me off?
What?
On the shelf?
When you're put off, it just means that you don't want to do something.
So a bad smell can put you off eating food or...
Maybe if you have a horrible manager or work for a company that doesn't pay you, then that would put you off working for them.
Just a random example that comes to mind.
Yes.
Yeah.
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Rory, you know, they have a saying that you are what you eat.
So can you actually say that if you are what you eat, you are fast, cheap and easy?
Well, I'm not fast, cheap and easy.
I'm expensive and high in protein, probably.
And slow.
And slow, yes.
Yes, are you a foodie, Rory?
No, I'm not a foodie.
I can eat just about anything.
So it's not a big deal for me what I eat.
Is food important to you?
Yes.
If you don't eat, then you die.
It's not so important in terms of the quality because I can eat just about anything.
But it's definitely important just because eating, well, you need to eat to live, basically.
What kinds of food do you particularly like to eat?
I quite like to eat things which are moderately healthy.
I suppose if anything stands out in particular about my diet, it's probably the fact that a lot of things are high in protein, just because I'm lifting a lot of weights right now, and it helps you manage your appetite better.
What kinds of foods are most popular in your country?
I'm not really sure.
I think a lot of people like things which are high in fat and carbohydrates.
I think this is kind of like a leftover from when people had more active lifestyles.
But now especially in Western countries like Scotland, for example, people have more sedentary lifestyles.
So they're not moving around as much.
And that's probably not so healthy.
But it is what they like to eat.
How different is food in your country today from when you were younger?
I think there seem to be two opinions regarding this.
I am of the opinion that it's not actually changed that much.
I think people are still eating the same things, but it's the fact that they're not moving around as much that makes it so unhealthy.
But I think the other, more popular opinion is that people are eating more fast food, for example, more junk food, more processed food.
And that is contributing to very unhealthy diets.
So that's a big change that's been highlighted by that opinion.
Yeah, and in your country, do people have to finish all the foods on their plate?
You know, like even if you don't like it, you kind of feel you have to finish everything.
I don't think it's one of these things which is socially enforced, but I think a lot of people don't eat the right kind of food and therefore they're always hungry, so they just finish everything because they're so hungry and they don't know when to stop or how to regulate how hungry they are.
What about you?
Do you always finish everything?
I always finish what I eat, but then that's because what I eat is always quite tasty.
And I know I'm working towards like certain weight goals and things like this.
But if you don't like the food, will you finish it anyway?
Well, like I say, I can eat just about anything.
So there are very few foods that I can't eat.
No, can you eat a cockroach or some fried bug?
I've eaten bugs before.
Can you eat a butterfly?
I've eaten bugs before.
I've not eaten a butterfly before.
I don't think you'd get a lot out of eating a butterfly.
Yeah, but you can say I can eat anything.
So, like, can you eat a bird?
Yeah, I eat chicken.
Oh, yeah, chicken is a bird, right, Maria?
Yes, now I know.
Okay.
Rory, which foods do you dislike?
There's only two kinds of food that I really dislike, and that is raisins and bananas.
I absolutely cannot stand either of them.
Are you joking?
No, I'm not.
I absolutely hate bananas, which is weird because I know a lot of people like bananas.
But the reason that I don't like raisins or bananas, to be honest with you, is because of the texture.
It's like the way they feel when I'm eating them.
I don't know what it is, but it's just something that makes it gives me the heave.
I don't like it at all.
So, avocados are fine, bananas are not fine?
Avocados are fine, bananas are not.
For me.
Okay, what about banana bread or banana ice cream, gelato?
That's just about okay for me, but I honestly really struggle with it still because it's just.
It's also the smell actually, now that I come to think about it.
It's just got this aroma that puts me off eating them.
I don't know what it is.
Rory, what foods do people in your country buy at the market?
You can buy just about anything at the market these days.
I suppose if you're lucky enough to live in a place that's got a farmers market, then seasonal foods or seasonal produce, I should say so, like strawberries in the summer but then more hardy vegetables and fruits in the winter months, for example.
But you also get more exotic fruits at markets now just because of things like refrigeration and improvements to food transportation.
How many meals a day do you have?
Right now I have three main ones.
So I have breakfast, lunch and dinner.
But when I'm alone, I probably only have two.
One of them is brunch and one of them is dinner.
It's not terribly exciting, unfortunately.
But I definitely get my three square meals a day just now.
Rory, they say that you should eat to live, not live to eat.
What about you?
Oh, it's a very philosophical question.
I live to eat, basically.
Well, I suppose since I'm on a bit of a health kick right now, I probably eat to live.
And I'm not getting very fat, so I don't live to eat.
We are so different.
What about junk food?
Oh, very rarely.
I don't eat junk food very often at all.
I can eat burgers, but usually it's like that would be at a restaurant.
And I don't know if that counts as junk food, etc.
Like high quality restaurant, for example.
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