Foodrelated Slang Idioms Basic English Phrases
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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yeah that’s true it’s not considered
selling anymore if you down sell someone
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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
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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
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there and yes we are working on
improving our live stream too so thanks
so much for your patience as well anyway
we’ll finish there for today so I have a
good day have a good night enjoy the
rest of your week and I will see you
again next week
next time okay bye bye
you