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honestly i don't think i've ever been

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that horrified to see someone eat

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something but to each their own

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i've tried it once and for the last time

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it's coming back as a delicacy just as

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insects are coming as a delicacy you

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know we have to get used to eating

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insects soon haven't we is that right i

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think not everybody likes it but i like

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it what a waste of time i don't like it

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that was it though yeah that's it is it

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for me won't make that mistake again i

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won't be eating marmite

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hello welcome to easy english so today

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i'm asking the question what is the

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worst english or british food before we

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here we go

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what is the weirdest worst food you've

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had well this is a while back but i went

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to a cornish pub with a few pet mates

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and i saw this one guy have stargazer

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pie it's like a cheesy mash dish river

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fish head sticking out the top for me i

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think it's got to be chips and gravy

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i know it's a northern thing but i don't

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understand that i've got friends that

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eat it down here

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something i can't really fathom really

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but you know each their own what is the

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worst british food

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i think it's a marmite

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right okay

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i don't like marmite no i i don't see

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that and as for uh vegemite what the

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australians eat i mean that's just a

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total different scenario i think it's

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brussels sprouts

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i love everything but brussels sprouts

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really yeah what's the most disgusting

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english meal okay

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while i've not had it

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i do recall

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a dish made of eels

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it's a traditional one and

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and another one of tribe which is cow's

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stomach

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yeah and um the lining of the cow's

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stomach it's weird because

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it's a fish head it's not the thing you

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would think of as food but

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honestly massive being quite nice

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because the guy looked quite happy to

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have it

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did he even eat the head

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um no he thought we ate the meats around

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i don't think he was brave enough but he

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did seem pretty satisfied afterwards

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i said do you think that like submerged

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under the pie there was the rest of the

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body probably yes

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okay and um what was it about that sort

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of turns you off you just like the it

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was the head the hands

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that's not a thing you think of when you

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think of food it's

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a fish's head

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doesn't know about this can you sort of

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describe the sort of phenomenon of the

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north-south

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chips and gravy thing so yeah i think

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you've got scotland great midlands and

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yourself i think it's more like a

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midlands like a wolverhampton birmingham

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thing um

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i think it's more of a brand it's

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definitely a brummy thing um no i think

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yeah definitely northern yeah i've got

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like i said i've got friends that have

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had it or still eats it now and i've

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tried it once and i just don't get it

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even with kfc's chips and gravies it's

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not what is what is gravy as well

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explain gravy

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for roast dinner

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that's what it should be that's what

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should stay really but yeah yeah so for

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me i'm over chips and mayonnaise can you

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just somebody like what what is what

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because maybe people don't even know

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what gravy is

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could you sort of describe gravy like a

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stock yeah i'd say like a beef stock

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yeah but thinner than a thinner than

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like yeah no probably a bit thicker

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actually than you'd put in a casserole

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it's like something between a soup

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yeah do you know what marmite is

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it's a yeast oh you know okay yeah yeast

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vitamin b how do you have marmite

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how would you eat it

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i actually eat it on a cracker and a

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cracker yeah and but you don't like

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marmite

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i do like oh you do lemonade yeah i

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think it's very hopefully you don't like

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it no why not well

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the taste it's like some kind of fish

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could you describe to people who don't

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know what like what marmite even is

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well marmite is a yeast extract um

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sort of spread that you would put on

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toast or maybe my daughter actually

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likes it with cheese spread and marmite

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in a white

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sandwich white hovis bread sandwich

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which uh

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with all the salt in that bread can't be

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very good for you it's very specific yes

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and

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laughing cow as well not dairy lay

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because it spreads better

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so my entry into the worst english food

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is actually a dessert

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which is um precariously named spotted

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dick which sounds a bit like a medical

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condition

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now spotted dick is disgusting for

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two reasons in my head so a key

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ingredient to spotted dick is called

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suet which i believe is

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like a white

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paste made from the fat of cows and

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sheep

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which is particularly disgusting when

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you think about it and so the second is

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whilst most cakes you consider to be

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made in the oven um spotted dick is

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actually steamed the the steam would

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come through and cook it into a harder

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form

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um and whilst this steaming isn't

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particularly disgusting you always

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consider it being quite healthy um the

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site of seeing um this puddings like

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sweating under a glass jar is

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uh really gross

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also the look of it actually that's the

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third one it's just this mound of

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dough with cow fat in it so the end

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result is you get this um

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spotted look which is through adding

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dried fruit which is usually something

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like kind of current or raisin

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which

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explains the spotted part

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i don't really know where the dick comes

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from though

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brits are not known for being very

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polite okay so let's say you come over

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to my house and i cut your big roast

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dinner

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are you is am i just gonna get out of

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like two plates just so brussels sprouts

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left on them

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i would probably still eat the brussels

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sprouts just to be polite yeah really

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yeah i'll live i'll eat a few and even a

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few then i'll then you'll probably see

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that i've tried and i'd say i'm full up

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yeah

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yeah yeah and so let's say you were not

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vegetarian

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would you try eel

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soup or eel pie

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about it

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i just thought of it you know eels

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no no no just the sword of it oh i hope

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it is dead

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yeah it's one of those things that would

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make you want to yeah yeah

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so then what do you have on your ships

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and um just chips i'm sorry just

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mayonnaise in a bit of ketchup

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like a prawn dressing really i've always

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had that and i think that's enough to go

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and chips really personally i know it's

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each the right people are listening to

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this thinking well everyone's got their

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own preference but that's definitely not

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one of mine so

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yeah leave it for the roast yeah leave

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yeah and uh when was the last time you

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had marmot me oh

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that would be

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good five or six years ago when i

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thought come on let's try it again and

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then realize actually no what a waste of

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time i don't like it that was it then

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yeah that's it is it for me won't make

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that mistake again i won't be eating

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marmite

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especially not with cheese spread or

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peanut butter yeah i get you of that

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that's fair enough

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i think i tried it a few times yeah and

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everybody's saying you either like it or

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hate it i tried second time like maybe a

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few years ago to see how it is i didn't

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like it okay and when was this time you

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had marmite

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i had them recently maybe

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two months ago oh really yeah

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on that cracker it's like a cracker for

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dinner for lunch for it was like a snack

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what about haggis i've never thought i

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could eat haggis that's a good shower

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i've never even seen this

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well it looks like it's in a bag and it

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looks like all

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different kinds of meat thrown in there

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or god knows what else you know

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but again but that's a delicacy isn't it

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poor people food is back in fashion

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and nourishing because even

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awful now

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what is awful

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awful

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liver

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kidneys

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of the animals you know the inners of

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the animal

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that's in fashion now as well as a

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delicacy thanks for watching this week's

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episode let us know in the comments

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below your opinion on the worst food we

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have to offer and we'll see you next

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week bye

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