How to Order and Describe Food in English! 🍩🦞🥤

Bob the Canadian

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Well, hey, welcome to this English lesson about food.

I'm here with Brent. Hi, Brent. Hello.

Brent's taking me around Maine

today, around Lewiston, Maine.

And he's going to treat me.. Well, I don't know.

Are you buying the food?

I'll probably buy most of it.

He might be treating me to food.

Or I'll buy some of it as well.

And then as I taste it, I'll try

to think of all the English words and

phrases I would use to describe that food.

So I'm looking forward to it. Me too.

The only thing I'm worried about is that Bob

is going to like the food so much.

You're not going to want to leave?

Yeah, I might end up staying here, but we'll see.

You never know it might be yummy, maybe not.

Okay, so we're here at the Holy Donut.

Brent has just gone in to make sure it's

okay for us to come in with our cameras.

Hopefully they say yes.

If not, maybe we'll have to be a little bit

sneaky about it, but I'm sure they'll say yes to

a Canadian visiting coming to buy their donuts.

I'm sure they'll be fine with it. We'll see.

Chocolate sea salt. Yeah.

And then what's your best blueberry?

Oh, personally, in my opinion, the blueberry lemon.

Oh, blueberry with lemon.

What does that look like? Where is that?

That is this one right here.

Oh, yeah, that looks good. Yeah, we'll do that.

Not the cannoli.

The cannoli is also absolutely delicious, but

I actually really like the lemon. Let's do four. Okay.

We're gonna do the blueberry cannoli.

Yeah, let's do that. Awesome.

Because Brent's paying. Yeah.

All right, so we have a sea

salt, a lemon, a blueberry holy cannoli.

And there was one other one.

What was that one?

Maple bacon and blueberry lemon. Maple bacon.

That's the one that I'm missing here. All right.

Anything to drink today?

Then the total is going to be $17.55. Okay. I can pay.

You want me to pay? I got it.

There's a chocolate.

Then my screen's just going to ask you

if you'd like to leave a tip and

then I'll ask if you want to receipt.

So we're not going to eat all of them.

We're going to try parts of each of them.

I got a knife. I had a knife. Yes.

Okay, so I think half's too much. Yeah, it is. So let's.

Let's try chocolate.

Let's try a quarter maybe.

I'm just gonna grab.

I'm gonna eat before you're eating. Do it.

This is probably my favorite donut that they sell here.

That is a deep, rich chocolate flavor.

Yeah, you were right.

I do like them.

Do you taste the potato in them? I don't, actually.

It tastes like if I bought this at

home, it would be an expensive donut.

It tastes very, very good.

And it's kind of a traditional donut.

It's made the old fashioned way.

It's probably deep fried in oil.

It's very soft.

I think almost a little warm still.

So I don't know how long ago

this was baked, but my favorite.

I like salt, so.

Do you like salt as well? I do. Two thumbs up.

But I have to try the other ones yet.

I feel bad, but I'm already rating this one

as my favorite without trying the other ones.

So I can't imagine how many calories

are in the middle of this doughnut.

When we cut it, though.

We gotta get a little bit of the cream. This is. Yes.

Luckily, they have a washroom here.

As you would say in Canada, you can wash up afterwards.

Once again, I'm gonna dive right in.

Do you know that? I'm gonna dive in.

That means I'm gonna go and take a piece right away.

Good phrasal verb. Uh oh.

I got a little bit of it.

And I don't know about you,

but I hate eating on camera.

I like the chocolate better.

The whipped cream tastes very fresh.

Like, it feels like it's authentic whipped cream.

Sometimes in Canada and the United States, you

have things that are kind of fake.

That tastes like real whipped cream.

Real blueberries, definitely. Oh, that is. That is good.

I'm gonna take another one.

Yeah, it's growing on me.

That's a good phrase, too.

Means I'm starting to...

I'm starting to like it more and more.

I'm not sure about this one.

A doughnut with bacon seems a little strange to me.

Usually donuts are very sweet, and this is going

to add a salty, savory element to the donut.

Is it maple bacon?

Now, bacon and maple go well together.

I'm gonna smell it first. Oh, yeah.

You can smell the maple.

You can definitely smell the bacon.

I'm gonna use the English phrase, that's a no for me.

When you say something is a no for you, it

means you don't like it, like, I like it enough

that I'll finish my piece, but I wouldn't buy this.

It's a great donut.

They've done a great job.

I just personally.

Is it too sweet, or is it the combination of flavors?

It's the bacon with the sugar.

That's unfortunate. I like that one. Okay.

What's this last one?

I believe it's the blueberry lemon. Blueberry lemon.

So two flavors together, and I'm sure it's the same.

In Canada, we say blueberry pairs well with lemon.

You will see that in cakes and stuff.

Yeah, I don't think I've ever had this one.

You can actually see the blueberry inside this one.

So has a nice blue look.

The hint of lemon is quite strong.

I wouldn't actually use the phrase hint of lemon.

It's quite lemony.

So more lemony than blueberry, I think. Yeah.

Okay, I'm gonna rank them. Okay.

Chocolate sea salt number one for me.

Blueberry cannoli number two.

Blueberry lemon number three, but a distant third, like, it's

one, two, and then there's a big gap for Bob.

And then blueberry lemon.

And then the bacon one is...

I guess it's number four by default,

but would not be buying it again.

What about you?

I think we line up.

No, no, we don't line up exactly.

So we don't exactly agree.

But chocolate sea salt number one.

Number one, blueberry, probably number three.

Oh, the maple bacon's probably my second. Okay.

This will be fourth, but not distant.

Like, I kind of like them all. Yeah.

Okay, well, thanks for the donuts. Of course.

We're done here at the donut shop,

and we're gonna hit the road.

And what's next?

What are we eating next?

I think we might have a lobster roll.

We might have a lobster roll.

So that might be next.

So we're at our next location.

We're gonna look at the lighthouse that you might

be able to just see in the distance there.

We'll get a bit closer.

And then up there, there's a little food truck or a

little food place where we're gonna get a lobster roll.

Should be yummy.

So I know this is a food video, but

this is a pretty cool shot of this lighthouse.

I'll have to do a little bit of

research about it later, but here we are.

You can see what I think is the Atlantic Ocean.

It could just be a large bay.

I have to check a map.

But we're here on the eastern seaboard.

We would call it making a food

video where I'm not actually eating anything.

We'll get back to that in just a sec. Okay.

I'm just taking a selfie for Jen.

I decided if I was on a trip without

her, I should at least send her some pictures.

Almost dropped my phone because of

the suntan lotion on my hands.

Okay, so we're here at this little trailer.

I called it a food truck, but it's a trailer,

and we're gonna get a lobster roll, which is apparently

a pretty common thing to get when you're in Maine.

I think Brent's gonna pay for them again. We'll see.

What can I get for you?

I say we go with a couple lobster rolls.

And since we're in Maine, we gotta do the Maine lobster.

Two Maine lobster rolls.

Yeah, we got two sizes.

We have a four and a half ounce and a six.

How hungry are you?

The smaller one for me. Okay. Smaller one for me.

We're kind of on a tour of food,

so we don't want to eat too much.

So it says for the Maine one, just mayo and chives? Yes.

Does it come with any butter?

Uh, we can put butter on anything. Please do. All right.

I'll get that receipt printed for you. Thank you.

Thank you. And I'll get you those drinks.

I'll be right back. Thanks.

You guys had Moxie before. I've had it before, but he's from Canada. No.

So we're gonna.

We're gonna see if I like it. Yeah.

Let us know where you fall on the great debate here.

Do you like it? I love it. You do? Really?

You'll be number 49. We'll just call the number when it's ready.

Okay. Thank you.

Had this for about 20 years, and

it's not as bad as I thought.

No, this is really good.

So I'm trying Moxie, by the way, so I. Sorry.

I stopped recording.

So you didn't see me open the

can and hear the nice ka-chsssh sound.

I'll make the sound for you, ka-chsssh.

It's very sweet.

It's like a traditional soda.

I was expecting something that was a little...

a little different, but it says

on here distinctively different.

But it really tastes like just a regular sweet.

Almost like a root beer, I was gonna say.

Yeah, it has a hint of, like, root beer.

So I don't know.

Is that sassafras or something like that? It's good.

I would drink it again.

There you go! Enjoy! Thank you.

Okay, so this is a lobster roll.

It looks kind of like a fancy, fancy bun with

lots of lobster in it, and then some potato chips.

Potato chips are good.

They're a bit salty.

I noticed there's a fork.

There's also lemon.

I'm gonna assume, like, traditional seafood.

I should put some lemon on this.

And then is the fork for, like, newbies. I think.

I think it can get pretty messy.

So I think I just... I gotta take... just take a bite.

My first bite. Mmm! That is very fresh seafood.

Like, where I live, far from

the ocean, we don't get fresh... This is,

this is very good. You can tell.

I didn't know you could tell that easily.

And I'm not the biggest lobster fan, but, I

mean, they didn't say skimp on the lobster meat.

That means they didn't hold back. They didn't...

They gave us a lot of lobster in this.

So I'm gonna try it just with a fork here.

It's also very buttery.

There's, like, butter on my hands from eating it.

And it's very messy.

Sorry for talking with my mouth full, but it's

very hard to eat without it falling apart.

It's the best thing I've eaten today so far.

Better than the doughnuts? Better than the chocolate

sea salt doughnut.

So there's a couple words I would use to describe this.

I demolished it.

That means, like, this is Brent's.

This is mine. It's gone.

Or I destroyed it.

That's kind of a newer word we use sometimes.

Like, I just destroyed it, but that was yummy.

I don't think I'm gonna eat the chips.

I'm not a big fan of chips,

but that was really, really good.

Delicious, scrumptious.

I can't think of any other words.

So I said I wasn't gonna eat my potato chips,

but I didn't want to let them go to waste.

When you let something go to waste, it means

you don't eat it and you throw it away.

And I just couldn't let them go to waste.

They are yummy.

I was just feeling kind of full.

When you eat a lot of food, especially

the lobster roll, you can feel full.

But, yeah, I can't let these go

to waste, so I'm gonna eat them.

Okay, so we're on our way to get a whoopie pie. Yeah.

Whoopie pie. Place called Wicked Whoopie.

And I think whoopie pies are,

like, very famous in Maine.

Have you ever had a whoopie pie?

I think you brought me one last year. Okay.

It was really good.

But I'm looking forward to, like, is this

gonna be, like, fresh made or it's gonna

be similar to what I had last year? No, it'll be...

it'll be a lot fresher than last year. Okay.

Well, hopefully it's good.

Is that it? That's it. Wicked Whoopie.

Okay, here we go.

In Maine, when we say something is really

good, we might say it's wicked good.

Oh, so that's why it says wicked whoopies. Wicked good.

I see. Very cool.

So there's a lot of flavors.

I see a lot of chocolate flavors over there.

That's probably where I'm gonna go. Okay.

So I just noticed they have mint.

So it looks like chocolate,

and then the inside probably has, like, a mint flavor.

I might go for that, because I

do like mint chocolate chip ice cream.

And then when I saw this, I said, hold the phone.

In English, when you say hold the phone,

it means stop whatever you're thinking about, because

I might be changing my mind, so. Hmm. Mint.

And, Brent, these are on me.

In English, when you say something's on

you, it means you're paying for it.

So Brent bought other stuff today, so this one's on me.

Would you like a bag for these?

No, we're gonna eat them right away. Alrighty.

Can we eat them at one of those tables over there?

Of course you can. $8.23.

I might need to punch my code in.

No, you are all set. Thank you.

Pumpkin, Gingerbread? Do you sell much of that?

Yeah, we do. In the summer? Yeah.

I'm not a gingerbread fan, but you would be surprised

the people that come in specifically for the fall. Okay.

Yeah. Can I get a receipt? You bet.

Do you have a lot of Canadians that come in here? Yes.

Okay, good. I'm not the only...

I'm not the only one.

Thank you very much. Enjoy!

Okay, let's find a table right in the corner here?

It's time for the grand opening. Sorry,

grand opening is usually when a store

opens, not when you open something.

Here's the opening.

But you definitely went with the classic.

Oh, it's very minty.

I did go mint, but it's the classic look. Yes, it is.

You could be mistaken.

I thought it was vanilla in the middle.

So you might not have to brush your teeth tonight. Okay.

Because of the mint.

Because you think it's kind of like toothpaste.

Oh, it's Minty. Definitely.

So I thought the outside would be

a little bit more like a brownie.

Like a little more dense.

It's actually a lot cakier.

Light and fluffy.

The center is...

I think there's a lot of icing sugar in there.

It tastes a little bit like the icing on a cake.

Like a cake that you would eat for your birthday. So.

So how many of these do you

think you could eat in a sitting?

Three, four? Half? Yeah.

Once we stop the camera, I don't think I can eat

more than half, and I will eat the rest tonight.

Very, very good.

How's yours? It's great.

I love chocolate, so the more chocolate, the better.

Chocolate cake, chocolate filling my stuff.

You can't go wrong.

That's a good phrase for you.

You can't go wrong means you made a good

decision, or that's a good decision to make.

So I would get it

again. We should ask, like, what would...

What would you get?

Yeah, what would you get? Go with the mint.

Peanut butter. Double chocolate.

Peanut butter is a good one.

I know I'll have to try that next time. In two

years when I'm back, because next year, hopefully Brent's in Canada.

Anyways, good choice. Thanks.

I said thanks, but I paid for it.

So I ate the whole thing.

I wasn't planning the whole...

to eat the whole thing, but it really hit the spot.

In English, when you say something

hits the spot, it means you...

you ate something or drank something that was,

like, exactly what you needed in that moment.

So this hit the spot. It was the mint.

I really liked the mint.

So we should check back in in 20 minutes and

see how you're feeling because... I'll probably be sleeping

on the couch at Brent's house because I think

I'm gonna have a bit of a sugar overload.

But, yeah, that definitely hit the spot.

Well, hey, thanks for watching this little English lesson

where I ate some food, and hopefully I described

it in enough ways that you were able to

learn some English words and phrases.

I know it wasn't a traditional English lesson, but

it certainly was fun to have you along as

Brent and I toured a little bit of Maine

and tried some of the food and one drink.

So, anyways, thanks for watching.

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