Improve Your English: English in Everyday Life

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ketchup? Um, and I remember when I went to college 
and, uh, started tasting all these other foods, I was like, 
“Oh my gosh, I’ve been missing out all this time! Th
is 
is terrifi c!” Um, so yeah, anything that isn’t bland, I’m a 
fan of.
4. NOODLES AND SAUSAGES
WOMAN:
I-I like to eat a lot, so I-I have a broad range of 
what I like to eat. I, uh, I’m-I’m very fond of Taiwanese 
food, the food that I grew up with. I like, um, dumplings, 
I like spring rolls—the Taiwanese kind, not the fried 
American kind. I like lots of noodles, any noodle dishes 
that we have. Um, but ever since I was sixteen and went 
to France for the fi rst time and stayed with a host family 
there, I’m a big fan of French food and Alsatian food in 
particular, so the Germanic heavy potatoes and sausage 
thing—I love sausages and potatoes, sauerkraut. I could 
eat that all day. Um, but pretty much I’ll eat anything you 
throw at me. I-I-I really enjoy eating. It’s one of the things 
that I, um, I love to do.

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INTERVIEWER:
Do you cook those things as well?
WOMAN:
With limited success. It’s always better if some-
body else cooks it.
5. CAMEROONIAN CUISINE
MAN:
I actually have a very simple, uh, approach to food. 
I know what I like and I don’t try to deviate a lot from it. 
I like, once it has rice in it, I’m happy, you know, so, I love 
rice so you’ll see me eating Chinese or rice cooked from 
the house or if I have to eat fast food, I eat 
McDonald’s
, 
you know. A lot people consider it fast food and so that’s 
good, but I-I like McDonald’s so I eat McDonald’s and, 
uh, I know I have a high metabolic rate so I’m not too 
worried about, uh, eating from McDonald’s.