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hello welcome to easy english today i

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want to find out the people of

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brighton's favorite food

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let's go so can you tell me what your

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favorite meal is my favourite meal would

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be chili con carne in

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enchiladas lots of sour cream and cheese

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on the top

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do you want to go first do you have your

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favorite food in mind

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yeah well i've eaten minty lamb sausages

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oh wow that's really specific what is

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your favorite food

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my favorite food is chinese okay chinese

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food

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and when you say chinese food do you are

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you making your chinese food or is it

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more from a takeaway um either oh really

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yeah i like

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well my parents cook i don't i can cook

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but not great but

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yeah either or i don't mind and is there

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like a specific thing that you would

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order from the takeaway menu or that

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your parents would cook for you

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oh nice always varied yeah yeah you

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don't have like anything like do you

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like the

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satay duck wraps or the spicy beef or

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something

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yeah i like sweet chilli beef the sweet

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chili crispy beef

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um oh else sweet and sour chicken

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yeah the chicken balls no i don't like

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chicken balls okay i don't like chicken

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balls but

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as a dish yeah like the curry sort of oh

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yeah yeah

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yeah that's good like hong kong style

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okay my favorite meal is along

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a similar theme and i would probably go

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with burrito bowl

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mainly because i like all foods and it's

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quite hard to narrow it down

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so you can put as many different types

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as you possibly can

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into one bowl and lots of flavors what's

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your favorite food

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um i would say i'm quite a fan of like

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mexican cuisine

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so fajitas enchiladas

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that sort of yeah the salsa yeah guac

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and dip

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guacamole there we go i like uh greek

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food

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yeah tapas you get lots of different

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types you can

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you know pick and choose and how about

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you what's what's your favorite dish

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well i like to keep a healthy diet so

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fruit and vegetables and

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i like cheese flatbread

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um type sandwiches um

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i haven't got anything specific really i

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just like to

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follow a healthy diet as much as i can

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like a platter style thing for you

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though i like

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like buffet style food because i don't

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like

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big meals either so i like to just

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choose

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the amount i would like not too much and

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sort of assemble your

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thing into one yeah nice so hold on you

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said

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cheese fruit and some sort of fruit on

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it maybe

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yeah blueberries strawberries yeah on

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like a cracker or something yeah

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like with the riveter or cracker yeah

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lasagna

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yeah my favorite go time okay and why is

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that

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um i i don't know actually i like any

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pasta though i like spaghetti bolognese

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is that the same thing

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but in like a different form it's like

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my favorite

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okay and um so you you like

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like italian food yeah i guess right

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pastas and pizzas

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oh yeah okay and why is that have you

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been to italy

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um i've actually only ever been to italy

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once i went to sicily which was the

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small island

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but apart from that i've just always

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been a pastor lover

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a question

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have you or do you plan to go to china

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i would you would i've got no plans yeah

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but i would specifically just so you can

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get the real authentic food

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yeah i'd love to what is it about minty

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yeah i

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have ham a home handmade for the butcher

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local butchers in eastbourne ah so it's

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local

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is this something that you get quite

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regularly then yes

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yes what is it about that you like taste

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really nice really nice so there's a

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running running theme of mexico here

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so my question is have you been to

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mexico we haven't been to mexico

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it is somewhere we'd both like to go to

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and we're working on it

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other members of the family yeah you'd

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really like to it's like a thing

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together

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yeah yeah all sorts of mexican food um

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just for the color the flavor

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um

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yeah i was going to ask what is the if

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you have to describe the main difference

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between mexican food and english food

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what

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would you say the contrast is color

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color yeah color and and varied flavors

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because

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as you said english food is quite often

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thought to be bland and the old roast

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beef or fish and chips but

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it's just the full-on color and and

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variation in flavor in one meal

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bit beige in it and a bit

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greasy and heavy i think i think when

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you've eaten something

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healthfully you know or something

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healthy with sort of bean based and

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avocado you feel you feel a bit cleaner

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after you don't feel heavy

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so a question for both of you but we'll

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start with you first what um

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what would you say the main differences

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between mexican food and english food

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what what what's the big contrast the

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spice

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slightly splat it's not i don't like it

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really spicy but

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yeah i feel like a bit of a kick a bit

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of a kick to it

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okay um and what about greek food would

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you say the main differences between

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greek food and english typical kind of

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british foods

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it's um just uh you know

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i don't know really english food you get

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a bigger portion

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whereas abroad like obviously you have

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like the tapas

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yeah yeah and just it's quite fresh

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isn't it greek fruits

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and how would you have both of your

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styles of food would you make it

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yourself

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or is it that you'd order in or go to

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restaurant to have or um

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either make it myself or a restaurant

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yeah i'd probably go to a restaurant

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yeah yeah and

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when you have your lasagna are you

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making it or are you ordering no way

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i'm never making it no no it's even like

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homemade or i would order it if i was

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out i would always order like a pasta

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lasagna

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okay apart from that i'm not very good

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at making it

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and when is the last time you had

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chinese food

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oh um

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about a week ago oh yeah yeah that was

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made for you or you made or was ordered

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yeah made for me okay and when's the

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next time you'll have it

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tonight whenever whenever

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you see what i'll go home to how often

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do you have this meal

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once every three weeks maybe you just

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like the little dishes the little dishes

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yeah

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okay and why is that is it this is the

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choice like having lots of different

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choices the little finger and you can

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share it with the table like with the

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table

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yeah yeah there's like a social element

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yeah definitely

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a nice glass of wine oh absolutely uh

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when did you last have your your

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different cuisines

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uh oh i did cook fajitas last week

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at home not quite the same as having it

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in a restaurant but yeah actually yeah

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about a month ago

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i um yeah also had mexican food at home

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yeah i went to a friend's house she

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cooked

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fajitas yeah chips and dip and yeah yeah

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when was the first time if you can

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remember when you first had these

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sausages

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uh probably when my mum was alive

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uh probably i don't know

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10 years ago at least oh wow really and

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do you have them how often

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i've only started having them again

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recently because we've got new butchers

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just down here it's a local butcher's

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opened up in lockdown oh wow this is a

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normal thing you can get in most

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butchers you think

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yeah i think yeah a lot of decent

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reputable butchers will do do

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them but this one is a good one it's all

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locally sourced meat from the local

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farms and stuff

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so it's nice did a burrito bowl or

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something

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yeah uh is this something that you would

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make or you'd order in

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we would make the first time we probably

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had it was in new york actually and you

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could just go and choose from various

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dishes and add it all into one bowl and

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it was like a it was like a street food

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so that kind of

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fresh street food type vibe yeah and

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where you live now

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is uh would you say there's a lot of

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mexican food available to you

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not at all no we live in chashis

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on the edge of rural cheshire so it's

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very much traditional british food but

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if we went into manchester we might find

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it easier but there's it's not

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it's not very cool i mean manchester us

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is cool but it's not

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it's you know the the food types aren't

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as varied as perhaps some other cities

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in the country

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and when was the last time you had

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lasagna um

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probably like last week sometimes

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been going after dennis since

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restaurants have been open

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and that's your go-to yeah eva spaghetti

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bolognese

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lasagna or carbonara wow my three top

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favorites

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and do you have plans to go to italy in

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the future well

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i was meant to be going to italy so it's

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been canceled about three times

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but meant to be going to naples uh in

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october this year

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oh really it's meant to be nice every

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night

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so you can finally live the dream yeah i

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want the pizza over there though i've

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had pizza as much for getting it today

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but i will be having my lasagna

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thanks for watching this week's episode

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let me know in the comments below your

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favorite food

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and we'll see you next week bye

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you