Food-related Slang & Idioms - Basic English Phrases

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testing some new things so but I think we're ready to get started so looks good to meet I think all right so to repeat again today we're talking about food-related slang and idioms then today as always I made today's lesson into like three groups and so we're gonna talk about expressions you can use at home vocabulary words at home and we're gonna talk about things you can say at the restaurant when you visit a restaurant and then I'll talk about some general expressions as well so I hope there's enough time to cover everything we'll see but let's begin let's start then today with the expressions you can use at home expressions you can use at home so before I begin I want to mention not all of these expressions are slang or not all of these expressions are idioms some of these are just more casual words that you can use to talk about food or to talk about eating so I want to begin with this side let's start over here today today let's begin with words you can use when you are cooking so I want to start with these first two these two to whip up and to cook up to whip up and to cook up this one to whip up if you don't know this verb to whip it means like to do to make this motion for example if you're making eggs or if you're maybe making like a cream or something like that whipping is this motion so when you say I'm going to whip up something it means you're going to cook something quickly something that's kind of easy something that's fast that you can make quickly that's when we use this expression to whip up to whip up and you'll see a couple of example sentences a little bit later too okay then the second expression to cook up is similar to cook up is just like an even more casual way of saying cook like I'm going to cook dinner later to make this a little more casual even we might say I'm going to cook up I'm going to cook up something I'm going to cook up something so I'll share some examples in just a moment let's see ah is that example sentence okay to share now I know you guys are busy sorry oh yeah okay cool okay so let's look at an example sentence since we talked about these two let's look at some example sentences first let's look at this one for a whip up for whip up so something you're going to cook quickly so this one to whip up I'm going to go home and whip up some pasta so here there are two expressions two things happening go home is one whip up is the other I'm going to go home and whip up some pasta so that means cook quickly cook something prepare something quickly okay then the second example sentence let's look at how to use the expression cook up cook up is used very similarly we'll see in a minute I think that's it great ok so here's an example sentence with cook this is past tense so remember cook is a regular verb so we cooked up some stew last night so it sounds like very simple cooking very easy cooking nothing really complex are complicated ok good let's go on then to this next expression so here I have 2/5 second rule ok maybe some of you know this and this depends on the person so we have either two second rule or five second rule this means depending on the person it's the length of time that if we drop food on the ground it's still safe to eat so like if you're making something or if you're eating something but you drop them then you can say like oh two second rule or oh five second rule then it's like oh maybe I'll pick it up and it'll be safe to eat am I going to stand the whole lesson I can sit down is that better for you I okay um then I was gonna I'm gonna I'm planning to stay on the whole lesson because it's more comfortable or okay anyway uh do you second or the five-second rule refers to when you drop something on the ground and you need to decide oh my gosh is this safe to eat or not hi okay so two second rule-- five second rule some of you may think it's not okay to drop it at all so maybe this doesn't apply to you but I think a lot of people say to second rule-- five second rule probably no ten second rule as well I see your guys's messages about the video lagging I cannot control that the team is working hard to try to fix the lag issue sorry we appreciate your patience we're working on it right now there's someone for you're working right now I want to try to fix it thank you for your messages though okay but let's move on to the next point the next thing is to make something from scratch to make something from scratch scratch here this means zero to make something from nothing to have no like pre-prepared ingredients and to make something from that so if you like cooking at home if you're a home cook and you want to make things without using a boxed ingredient without using some kind of pre-prepared ingredient you can use this expression so to make pasta from scratch to make soup from scratch right here is where you use the name of the food that you're making to make something from scratch here so we'll see a couple examples yeah great awesome thank you control desk so we'll see an example sentence right here um let's see ah that's okay so sorry our first example sentence right here is this one so this is how to use this five second or two second rule I talked about so you dropped the expensive cheese five-second rule so we use this more like an exclamation like oh you dropped it two second rule or oh you dropped it five second like this kind of at the end of a statement something happened five-second rule and then if you pick it up in five seconds it's okay to eat then let's look at the second one here to make something from scratch to make something from scratch here's an example I made this cake from scratch I made this cake from scratch so here this means I did not use any pre-prepared ingredients I did not use any box I didn't use anything I put everything together myself okay great so this is sort of just a couple these are a couple things you can use at home if you like cooking at home these are some expressions you can use at home in your own kitchen all right good let's take a break then it is very hot in here today oh my goodness okay so today's topic is as you see food-related slang and idioms so as always we have free stuff a perfect thing for you to check out the free thing for this week it's hard to see this one this free PDF cheat sheet I'll hold it up here really quickly it's so bright it's hard to see this it's hard to see it but this has vocabulary words and expressions on the back specifically for dining it's really hard to see it because of the lighting but this paper is white so it's alright that's hard to see but trust me there are some good expressions here for going to restaurants and for cooking so this is a perfect way to practice some of the things that we're talking about in today's lesson so please go download this you can find this in the link below the video if you're watching on YouTube and above the video if you're watching on Facebook lots of you asked on YouTube where is the link I can't find the link you need to check the description of the video on youtube for facebook if you're watching on the big video there look like minimize the video screen and you'll see the link above the small video on your Facebook page so if you can't find the link that's where to find it so please check this out you can see a lot of other things there too we have lots of other PDFs but today maybe the food and dining one is a nice one to practice today's points yes all right let's pick it back up again if you are just joining today's topic is food and food-related idioms things we can use at home things we can use in the kitchen Oscar says Alicia can we use from scratch to say from the beginning not necessarily we use from scratch to mean that we made something from nothing like so if you're making like like a birdhouse or if you have a project of some kind and you make it without any like there's no set box you can say I made it from scratch but I would say it's probably most commonly used for the kitchen for making things from the kitchen okay let's move along so let's go to the second part of today's lesson I mentioned today we're talking about food-related idioms food-related slang casual words group one was expressions you can use at home second part is things we're going to talk about at the restaurant so this will actually get into a little bit of slang this will be some slang so it's hard to see I'm going to read everything don't worry so let's take a look at some restaurant expressions first one the first word here is party party so when you visit a restaurant visit a restaurant when you visit a restaurant they will tell you like or they will ask you rather how many in your party party means group how many people in your group so your party and when they when they tell you like okay you're you're going to wait ten minutes or five minutes or something like that you sit at the restaurant and you wait when they call you they say your name plus the party number so for example you'll see here in just a second I used one of our team members names here Meg party of three so this you will hear this at a restaurant when you have been waiting for your table and they call you so if it's me I would they would say like Alicia party of five party of five means five people group of five people if it's my friend Meg they might say Meg party of three so party means number of people like the number of people in your group and then we follow it with of and the number in your group so this is quite common the restaurant staff might also ask you how many people in your party how many people in your party yes some of you might know party of five very famous very famous show party of five okay good let's see someone on Facebook asked a very complex question about tenses right today's lesson is about a different topic please send other questions to ask Alicia that's perfect for ask Alicia today this is the topic okay um let's move on to the second thing the second verb the second this is a slang expression especially if you work in the restaurant industry the expression is too short too short someone as a verb so I know you guys know short means like not tall too short someone however as a verb too short someone is usually used for drinks so when you order a drink at a bar for example a glass of wine or a cocktail and the bartender the waiter the waitress they don't pour enough into the drink so there's a there's a regular amount for the drink but the person making the drink doesn't pour enough it's like not enough we say short we use the verb short to describe that so I'll show you a very casual but quite common expression that you can use here let's take a look at this example sentence this expression is the bartender shorted me on that pour okay so what is this bartender is clear I think the person working at the bar then shorted me shorted me means didn't give me enough of the thing I ordered and then here on that poor so pouring means like making the drink so in this amount of drink that went into my glass there wasn't enough in other words so we used this expression to talk about that the bartender shorted me didn't give me enough when they made my drink this is a casual way to say that too short someone too short someone okay good then let's move on to another restaurant industry word if you work in kitchens maybe you know this word the expression is too stiff too stiff so again stiff is an adjective that we use to mean like tough or tense for example but too stiff as a verb too stiff means to leave a restaurant without paying or you leave a like a bar and you don't pay the bill so this is more an expression the restaurant staff might use but if I guess if you get in trouble you might hear this expression so too stiff so let's look at an example of how to use the word stiff as a verb let's take a look here thank you those kids stiffed us those kids stiffed us so here stiff is used as a regular verb so we use edy at the end those kids stiffed us means those kids left and they didn't pay us the restaurant staff so this is a sentence that staff at the restaurant would probably say those kids stiffed us as kids stiffed us they did not pay their bill okay um let's see a flower rode on YouTube says the chef shorted me on that serve actually we would not say that no on we would use we used pour as I talked about in that example sentence but the chef shorted me on that serve we probably wouldn't say that like you might just say I got shorted on this portion or some I feel like we tend to use short more for drink actually we don't get very specific with other uses of short you could just say ah I got shorted for example like it's not enough in other words okay ah good you the vanilla oil says I'm America I've never heard that sentence in my life or the words stiffed really okay yeah these are some restaurant industry whereas I think okay uh good those kids left without paying yes that's what stiffed means that's what stiffed means okay good good then let's move along to the last one for the restaurant list and you might hear this in other service situations the expression is to upsell to upsell so two we have here two kind of parts to this verb up and sell so up and sell something for money this means to suggest a higher priced item to suggest a higher priced item so if you're debating like there's a cheap glass of wine and a more expensive glass of wine the waiter or waitress might upsell you try to convince you like push you to buy the more expensive item that's called upselling to upsell someone okay so we'll look at one example here yeah great okay so to upsell someone right here is the waitress tried to upsell me on my wine choice so to upsell someone the waitress tried to upsell me so upsell we don't have down sell interestingly enough we don't use down sell I suppose I think upsell is something we don't we use to mean I was pushed to buy something at a higher price but down sell know so interesting word so these are some expressions you might hear more at restaurants yeah okay good good good good we're about really have ten minutes left yeah that's true it's not considered selling anymore if you down sell someone oh right let's go on to another break then so if you missed it before today as always we have free stuff I was thinking this it's hard to see from here but it's also hard to see up here this dining like a champ cheat sheet pdf it is free from the website from English class 101.com this has of course some food related vocabulary words and images you can check the pictures here and the vocabulary words also there are some great expressions for like complimenting food or criticizing food I know it's hard you can't see this very clearly but you can look at it on the screen right now there are some other ones available too so you can check out other topics as well but for the dining one you can find some vocabulary words for making requests at the restaurant finding foods that you like at restaurants and also an important one maybe is talking about your allergies how to talk about allergies Adriel star on youtube what is the opposite of up cell there's not an opposite of up so we talked about that there's no down so we don't use down so so we don't really say that okay let's move along then let's move along yeah it's just normal selling just normal selling up cell Jamila says upsell or up space sell no space up sell no space Fair up sell one word - up sells on alright let's move along then let's move along to the third topic today again if you are just joining us today's topic is food-related slang idioms and some casual expressions for food and dining topic one food-related expressions at home topic two was restaurant related expressions let's move along to some general words you can use for eating eating and other things okay first one maybe you have seen this on the internet this I've put it in put it in parenthesis here this is on nom nom n om nom okay so this is an expression it mimics the sound of eating omnomnom is like a very casual way to make a sound similar to like an excited enthusiastic eating sound so we'll sometimes we say omnomnom all together but in a lot of cases we just use nom so if you'd see like on Instagram for example someone posts a picture of like delicious looking food you might see in the comments someone writes nom like it means like delicious or that looks great I want to eat that nom is what that is so that means like casually it looks delicious or I'm imagining eating that enthusiastically so no I'm good one om nom nom you can use to this sounds extremely casual a kind of childish so don't use this at work this is very casual situations only okay let's go along oh I have yeah good example sentence thank you so here if you are watching a couple weeks ago oMG oh my god that chicken you posted on Instagram nom so here it's in caps all capital letters that chicken you post it on Instagram nom like it looks really really good I'm talking about something that you shared on Instagram last week this is how you might use it very very casual okay let's go on to the next one of maybe a very important one there are two words here it's hard to see I know so I'll read it here I've begun with I'm it's hard to see sorry I'm so I'm uh okay I'll get to that a second I'm full I'm full or I'm stuffed I'm full or I'm stuffed so these two expressions I'm full I'm stuffed mean I cannot fit anything else in my stomach my stomach has no more space in it yeah so I'm so full I'm so stuffed so full is kind of I would say a slightly more polite way to express it stuffed is like I can't move it's like it's really really full I can't I can't do anything else anymore mm-hmm all right so yeah I feel like a turkey says producer I feel like a turkey like you're stuffed like a turkey you're so full you can't fit anything else in so these are expressions you can use when you're eating something okay oh right the next expression then is booze I'm sorry I forgot my fork um example sentence I got a message oh man that was so good I'm stuffed I'm stuffed so here's how we use it it's usually like a good thing to be stuffed like we use it in a positive way yeah Hart hi Harley oh my god that turkey was so good I'm full yeah exactly exactly yes it means your stomach is full usually at full of food we don't use it so much for drinks actually but for food all right let's go on to the next one important perhaps the word is booze booze this is a slang word which means alcohol booze means alcohol it sounds very like rough kind of casual booze so we use it in casual situations only you might know this expression B why o be very hard to see BYOB BYOB is common on party invitations party invitations sometimes say BYOB which means bring your own booze bring your own booze to the party or bring your own beer perhaps but this means please bring your own alcohol to the party if you see this on a party invitation it means you should prepare your own drinks so booze means alcohol example this one can you pick up some booze on your way home can you pick up some booze on your way home so meaning can you get some alcohol can you get some alcohol to drink it is a request okay extreme English just for food or can it be for a drink which which one do you mean if you're talking about full or stuffed full of stuffed is typically for food actually we don't use this so much for drinks though drinks can be involved good Crale later on Facebook careful not bronze but booze B Oh oze not bronze booze booze no are there okay onward next one next one maybe you've seen this one on the Internet this is the key part here this word is munchies munchies the spelling is M u n CH IES munchies and I have here in parentheses I've got I have got I've got munchies so munchies munchies alone this word can refer it means like snacks let's get munchies I want some munchies it means snacks so to munch is a verb too much this part here up to the H to munch is like a casual verb that we use to mean to snack like to eat like two things so munchies are snacks so this is like the plural form you can imagine munchies is snacks if you say though I've got munchies or I've got the munchies also it means I want to eat snacks I don't want to eat like a big meal I just want to eat a bunch of snacks so this happens to me a lot so let's look at an example sentence them with munchies please good perfect thank you so I've got as I said I've got the people will sometimes use this farme this I've got the munchies because the munchies is like a very commonly like a very common feeling I think to want to eat just some snacks so I've got munchies or I've got the munchies let's go to this store like let's go to the store to get some snacks so munchies is a great word to know munchies yes to munch something okay good let's move along this is another important one actually I talked about this in an episode of ask Alicia - this is a set phrase here this is important the store so this is a set phrase when this is an American English point - I think the store when we talk about going to the supermarket to go shopping for food to get drinks for everyday items we don't usually say I'm going to the supermarket I'm going to the grocery store well maybe we do but in many I would say arguably in most situations we say the store the store when we say the store it means supermarket like I'm going to the store do you need anything from the store that's our example sentence here do you need anything from the store always with the article the so the store means the store in your neighborhood where all of the everyday items are where everything you need for your kitchen or for your life those small everyday things that's the store so we always say I'm going to the store do you need anything from the store that's the expression we use I would not use supermarket Supermarket is not wrong but if you want to sound more natural use the store this is an American English point like I said if you prefer British English I believe British English uses shop more than store so an interesting point there okay good let's go on to last one oh gosh I guess I should make this the last one I had other things do but out of time alright for a last maybe point for hamburger fans hamburger cheeseburger burger sandwich fans the expression here key expression is fixings fixings specifically all the fixings fixings means toppings toppings so if you like hamburgers or cheeseburgers or sandwiches whatever toppings are like cheese lettuce tomato bacon avocado lots of sauce for example fixings means toppings if you say all the fixings it means you want all the toppings all the toppings on your sandwich all the toppings on your burger so fixings means toppings this is a slang expression example then a burger with all the fixings sounds good you might also hear a burger with all the fixings like the G sound is dropped a burger with all the fixin's sounds good so fixings means toppings it's a good one sounds delicious I'm getting hungry okay so this is a burger expression or a sandwich expression we do not use this for like pizza toppings that we just say toppings actually so sandwiches and burgers use fixings with that one for sure alright yeah and then another one BYOB has another bonus word one more I'll end today just because it's a quick point it's depending on the part of the USA you visit or depending on other things oh that's quite small there are three words we use for carbonated drinks they are soda soda is 1 SOT a soda there's also pop P o P and finally there is Coke or Cola as well I think soda pop and Coke there are a lot of words oh thank you perfect thank you thank you there are a lot of words that we use to talk about carbonated drinks carbonated drinks means drinks that have bubbles in them bubbles lots of little bubbles so fizzy drinks yeah fizzy drinks ah fizzy that's a good word too I'll add that here fizzy fi z z y fi z zy means lots of bubbles in drinks fizzy is an adjective so fizzy drinks we use soda pop or coke to talk about those it depends on where you are in the u.s. different people use different words like on the west coast where I was growing up we used pop actually we used pop maybe like California we used soda as well too a little bit I think coke and cola might be used more in like the south and on the East Coast perhaps I'm not sure actually maybe someone will get mad at me but I don't know but I tended to use like pop or soda now I think I use soda like soda water or soda to drink but you will hear all of these actually to talk about fizzy drinks fizzy drinks good so a little point to end on for today all right so those are maybe a nice list of vocabulary words that you could probably use today or tomorrow in your studies when you're eating or visiting a restaurant or just thinking about food in general so I hope that you can use this stuff right away that's good stuff to know I think all right Washington you're late I saw it Oh No okay but we have to finish up there for today we're out of time oh no no so thanks very much as always for joining us we'll be back next week of course at the same time same channel next week will be June 13th Wednesday June 13th at 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time our topic will be English proverbs English proverbs so I'm going to choose a few kind of common and hopefully useful proverbs and we'll talk a little bit about them when to use them and what they mean so please join us next week for English proverbs 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time that is New York City time Wednesday night 10 p.m. please google your local time if you don't know what time that is please check that up um everything else ever had did I say everything I need to say I don't know oh yeah check out make sure to download this week's free pdf this dining dining cheat sheet it has lots of really 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