BBC Real Easy English 你喜欢吃辣的食物吗?

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Hello, I'm Neil.
And I'm Georgie.
Welcome to Real Easy English.
You can find a worksheet and transcript for this episode
on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.
Hi Georgie. How are you?
I'm very well, thank you, Neil.
Something that made me very happy yesterday was that my housemate made
me a delicious meal.
It was very spicy.
Well, we're talking about spicy food today.
Yes. Spicy food is food that makes your mouth hot,
and sometimes it can be painful.
Neil, I like spicy food.
What about you?
Yeah, I really like spicy food.
I think...
Well, it has a lot of flavour.
And it can make you actually feel good when you eat spicy food.
It can, kind of, lift your mood.
Yeah, I agree actually.
Spicy food really makes you feel alive.
The food that my housemate made for me yesterday was jerk chicken,
which she put on the barbecue and it really had a kick.
So, if something has a kick, it means that it's a little bit spicy.
So, we had some mayonnaise with it to, kind of, cool it down.
Yeah, good idea.
Sometimes when you eat really spicy food or hot food.
We say hot food and it doesn't mean the temperature always – it means spicy.
When you have spicy food or hot food,
it can make it feel like your mouth is on fire.
Very true.
Have you always liked spicy food or was it something you had to learn to love?
I think so.
I think I've always liked spicy food.
Yeah, I've always eaten lots of Indian curries,
or Mexican food, or Caribbean food, like your jerk chicken.
Yeah, I remember going on holiday with my family in Spain,
and they have a dish there made of peppers,
and some of them are very mild so they aren't very spicy,
but some of them really have a kick, and
you don't know which one is going to be really spicy, so it was quite...
it was almost like an exciting game.
So, I've always enjoyed spice.
OK. So, Georgie, you can eat spicier food now than when you were younger.
Yes. Now, Neil, what's the spiciest meal you've ever eaten?
Well, I was travelling in South East Asia,
and there was something on a menu,
in a restaurant or bar I was in, called the spicy sausage salad...
and they weren't lying!
It was so spicy, it felt almost like somebody had attacked my tongue.
Oh no! Was your mouth on fire?
My mouth... My whole head was on fire!
And it took a long time and lots of water before...
before I felt normal again.
Does water help?
I don't know. I needed to try something.
I think sometimes milk can help, but I don't know if there are...
if there's anything else that can help.
But sometimes you really need something to cool down.
Yeah. How about you, Georgie?
What's the hottest thing that you've ever eaten?
Well, it wasn't a meal, but I used to work in a restaurant.
And there was a chef there who had three bottles of hot sauce
with different levels of spice,
and we were all trying it – everyone that worked there –
and the spiciest one was so hot.
It was so spicy, it...
my mouth was completely on fire.
It was horrible.
I actually didn't enjoy that.
Everyone was sweating, crying.
I don't think anyone enjoyed the experience.
Time now to recap the vocabulary we've heard in this episode,
starting with 'spicy'.
If something is 'spicy', it makes your mouth feel hot
and that can be uncomfortable or even painful.
We can also describe food as 'hot'.
Now, 'hot' is not always about the temperature – it can also mean 'spicy'.
If food is spicy, we can say it 'has a kick'.
Now, Georgie said she had some Jamaican jerk chicken
and that had a kick – it was spicy.
If you eat something that's really spicy,
you could say, My mouth is on fire!
And it means it made your mouth feel very hot.
If your mouth is on fire, you might want to cool it down
with maybe a glass of water or a glass of milk.
That's it for this episode of Real Easy English,
but don't forget to go to our website where you can find a free worksheet
and you can test yourself on what you've learned.
That's at bbclearningenglish.com.
And we'll be back next week with another conversation in easy English.
Goodbye for now.
Goodbye!
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