Episode 0215

Hello everyone and welcome to English Pod. My name is Marco.

We love talking about food and this time we are gonna pick up some food at the deli.

But what's a deli?

A deli is a special store where a person can buy meats.

Okay.

Meat and cheese. And in this case we're talking about special meats. It's not just like pork or beef, which you could also buy at the butcher.

It is cured meats, cold meats.

So let's take a look at today's vocabulary preview to find out more about this special kind of meat.

Vocabulary preview.

Alright, so at the deli you usually pick up cold cuts. Cold cuts.

So basically the way that I used to remember cold cuts as a child was that cold cuts are what you put on a sandwich.

Uh-huh.

So sliced turkey, sliced chicken, ham, salami.

Okay, like pepperoni would be a cold cut, right?

That's right. So cold cuts are meats that you serve cold normally.

They're usually cured, they're not like raw pork or raw beef. You put them on a sandwich.

So cured meats would be like that they're smoked, they're not cooked.

No, they're not cooked, you're right. They're smoked or they're cured with a kind of chemical or brine. That means that they're preserved, they can last for a long time.

Alright, very good. So that's what we're getting at the deli. Usually at the deli you can pick up meats, cheeses and pickles and all that good stuff.

Alright, so why don't we jump into our dialogue and listen to it for the first time.

Honey, we're all out of wine and cheese. Do you mind running to the deli and picking up a few things?

Can it wait? I'm watching the game right now.

Your friends and family are coming over tonight and we still need to get a lot of things.

Fine. What do you need?

Okay, pick up some cured meats to go with the wine. Maybe a pound of Polish sausages, ham, liverwurst, salami, and any other cold cuts that are on sale. I think I saw a promotion for pastrami.

Also, get some coleslaw and a jar of olives.

Whoa, wait a minute, isn't that a bit too much? I mean, how much is all this going to cost?

Never mind that. Get some dips as well. Get a jar of spinach and blue cheese dips and also some tzatziki.

If they have bean dip, get that as well.

Last but not least, get some pickles.

Alright, we're back. So now we're gonna go into language takeaway where we're gonna take a look at six keywords.

Language takeaway.

Alright, so the first key word that we have, we actually talked about it already, but just to make sure that you got it. Those are cured meats.

Cured meats.

Well, to cure something is to preserve it in this case.

So be careful because to cure has a couple of different meanings, but when we're talking about food, something that is cured is preserved.

For example, pickles are cured in salty water, brine.

Oh, is that what it's called? Brine? Salty water.

Yeah.

But pickles are like if you don't put them in brine, they they don't taste all soury and nasty, right?

No, that's because they're cucumbers. So a cucumber becomes a pickle after it's been cured.

Ah.

So we could talk about pork, but when pork is cured, it becomes ham.

Okay. Awesome.

Okay, so cured meats are meats that have been preserved through some kind of process like using salt or drying them.

Okay, awesome.

And one of these cured meats, uh I think maybe is a liverwurst.

Okay, and that means sausage, right?

That's right, sausage. So Bratwurst, Liverwurst. And in this case, Liverwurst, I'm sure you can guess what part of the pig that comes from.

Liver?

Awesome.

Yeah, no, Liverwurst is a kind of sausage that's made up of this part of the animal.

Okay.

Actually, I've never I don't know if I've had Liverwurst. What does it look like? Is it white? Is it red? Is it

I think it's like dark, light, purplish-whitish.

I don't know. I've had bloodwurst. That's good.

Okay. And uh well, apart from picking up meats and cheeses at the deli, you can also pick up coleslaw.

Alright, coleslaw is an American classic. I'm sure you could get this other places as well, though. It's basically a cold salad that's made up of cabbage and carrots, and maybe onions, but generally the sauce is white. It's like a mayonnaise and vinegar sauce.

So it's very stringy, lots of thin long pieces and the sauce is white.

Okay. Yeah, I think this is a very American thing. I'm not really sure if I've seen coleslaw in many other places.

But I personally don't like it. Again, because of the whole vinegar thing. I'm not a big fan of the bitter stuff.

Oh, really? Oh, wow. Okay.

So coleslaw. Moving on, we have an interesting sauce. It's Greek, I believe.

That is correct.

Well, I don't speak Greek, but this is how we say it in America, Tzatziki, Tzatziki.

Tzatziki.

Okay, Tzatziki is a food that comes from Greece, like you said. You know, in America, we have a lot of different foods, and Europe too, wherever. People come from all over the place, and in America we've adopted a number of foods.

One of these foods is Tzatziki. It's a white yogurt dip.

So usually in Tzatziki there is some onions, some cucumber, some pepper, but it's a really good thick creamy yogurt dip that you use with bread or chips.

Okay. And that's actually our next word. Uh you mentioned it's a dip. So you're using that as a noun and that's our next word, dip.

Dip. So basically a dip is a kind of food that you eat with other foods.

Okay. So it's like a sauce.

Exactly, it's a sauce for finger foods.

So basically a dip is a food you eat with other foods, so you can have chips and dip, that would be potato chips with dip.

And sometimes you have tomato dip or cheese dip. In this case we have Tzatziki, or blue cheese dip.

Blue cheese dip. Okay.

But actually it's also a verb, right? To dip. So when you take your potato chip and you dip it in the dip, you can say that.

Yes, dip it in the dip.

Okay. So you dip your potato chip in the dip.

Yes. Very good.

So those are all the words that we have for you today on language takeaway. Why don't we go back, listen to the dialogue again and we'll be back in a bit with fluency builder.

Honey, we're all out of wine and cheese. Do you mind running to the deli and picking up a few things?

Can it wait? I'm watching the game right now.

Your friends and family are coming over tonight and we still need to get a lot of things.

Fine. What do you need?

Okay, pick up some cured meats to go with the wine. Maybe a pound of Polish sausages, ham, liverwurst, salami, and any other cold cuts that are on sale. I think I saw a promotion for pastrami.

Also, get some coleslaw and a jar of olives.

Whoa, wait a minute, isn't that a bit too much? I mean, how much is all this going to cost?

Never mind that. Get some dips as well. Get a jar of spinach and blue cheese dips and also some tzatziki.

If they have bean dip, get that as well.

Last but not least, get some pickles.

Alright, we're back and uh now let's take a look at three key phrases on fluency builder.

Fluency builder.

Alright, this first one is a very, very common phrase. We use this a lot in English when we're maybe running late or we need something very quickly. We say, hey, can you run to the store and get this, or do you mind running to the deli? So the verb here is to run to.

Run to.

Run to. Run to the deli. Now, does this mean that you're actually going to like walk very fast to the deli, you're gonna run?

No, this is not literal. This is not, okay, I'm going to go to the deli and I'm going to get some food. No, this is going quickly.

Okay.

So, I could say, Marco, I have no time, can you run to the store and get me some milk please?

Okay, so that means just go really quickly in your car, your motorcycle, anyway, anyway you can.

Or walking, yeah, exactly.

Good. So that's run to the store, run to the deli. In this case, we saw it in the sentence, do you mind running to the deli? So do you mind going quickly?

This is going quickly. Do you mind running to the deli? This is a thing that we can do.

Okay. And so she was telling him what to get and he's like, whoa, this is going to be really expensive. And she answered with this phrase, never mind that.

Never mind that.

Okay, this is a phrase that we use when we want to say, don't worry about it.

That doesn't matter.

No problem.

It's not important.

So, never mind, you could say by itself, never mind. Forget about it. But never mind that is like saying, this argument is over, it's not a problem.

Okay.

So never mind that. As I was saying, let's go to the store.

Okay. Good. So it's not important, it's not relevant, don't worry about it.

Okay. Very good. And the last phrase that we have for you is a very interesting phrase when the girl said, you know what, very funny, but get a move on. People will be here any minute. Get a move on.

Get a move on. So as we often say here at English Pod, this is a kind of phrase we have to look at as a chunk, as a unit, as one piece.

You could say get, get me this, or I move, I moved my house. But get a move on means hurry up.

Hurry up.

Start leaving now. Go. Go to the store. Be quick about it.

So this is a command, get a move on.

Okay, so take it as a phrase, just like you know the phrase, hurry up, or go quickly. Uh remember the phrase, get a move on as a way of saying, come on, quickly, go. Go, go, quickly.

That's right. Or as I always say, when I'm with friends and we're, you know, going slowly somewhere, I say, hey, guys, let's get a move on.

Let's get a move on. They're gonna close.

Let's get going, let's go here.

Okay, very good. So, get a move on. Let's get a move on and why don't we go back and listen to the dialogue for one last time.

Honey, we're all out of wine and cheese. Do you mind running to the deli and picking up a few things?

Can it wait? I'm watching the game right now.

Your friends and family are coming over tonight and we still need to get a lot of things.

Fine. What do you need?

Okay, pick up some cured meats to go with the wine. Maybe a pound of Polish sausages, ham, liverwurst, salami, and any other cold cuts that are on sale. I think I saw a promotion for pastrami.

Also, get some coleslaw and a jar of olives.

Whoa, wait a minute, isn't that a bit too much? I mean, how much is all this going to cost?

Never mind that. Get some dips as well. Get a jar of spinach and blue cheese dips and also some tzatziki.

If they have bean dip, get that as well.

Last but not least, get some pickles.

Alright, we're back. So now Catherine, I understand you're a big fan of uh pickles and olives and all that stuff.

Oh, really?

Pickled, have you ever had a pickled tomato?

I hate pickled tomatoes.

I hate, I actually uh there are a couple of things that I don't really like. For example, coleslaw, you mentioned that it has cabbage in it, and uh many people may know this vegetable as this purple lettuce, right? It looks like a lettuce but it's purple.

That's right.

I hate it. I don't like it. And I actually hate olives and pickles. I can't really eat them.

Sounds like you don't like bitter things, like vinegar.

Uh, yeah, yeah, no. Not a big fan, not a big fan of anything that's bitter.

I've never really understood how people have like a a a whole pickle and they take it out of the jar and they just bite into it. It's like, that's nasty.

Well, the adjective to describe a pickle's flavor is sour. It's very sour. And in America at delis you can buy full sours or half sours.

Oh, really?

So some pickles are less sour than others. We call it a half sour. My favorite pickles are full sours.

Oh, really?

Is this a, the whole pickle thing, is this very American? Cause you always have pickles in burgers, for example, right? You go to McDonald's, you have pickles in burgers. Is this very American or is this coming from another place?

It comes from Europe. A lot of German food involves pickles, pickled vegetables. Um the Koreans also, Korean food has a lot of pickled vegetables like kimchi, which is pickled cabbage.

Ah, that's right.

And so um in Chinese culture as well, a lot of pickled food. So I think this is something that's very common all over the world.

You can have pickled fish, pickled meat, yeah. Anything, you can pickle anything.

I don't know if we pickle things in Latin America. This is why it seems very strange to me.

But uh this is a really interesting topic. Why don't you let us know what your favorite cured meats are? I know there are a lot of different types. And if you like pickles or not, maybe some people out there will support me and say they don't like pickles.

Alright, and if you have delis in your home country, let us know. I've always been curious about this. Do you have delis or do you just have a butcher shop? What's the difference?

Awesome. So we'll see everyone there, englishpod.com, until next time.

Bye, everyone.

The English part audio review.

Listen to the meaning, then say the vocabulary word.

Lack

Out of

To choose and buy.

Pick up

Something done to make people aware of a product.

Promotion

Don't take what you just said into consideration.

Never mind

In addition to all the foregoing.

Last but not least

A shop selling ready to eat food products.

Deli

A shop selling ready to eat food products.

Deli

Lack

Out of

Something done to make people aware of a product.

Promotion

Don't take what you just said into consideration.

Never mind

In addition to all the foregoing.

Last but not least

To choose and buy.

Pick up

Now say the word and hear it in a sentence.

Out of

The pharmacy is all out of aspirin.

Out of

We are all out of milk.

Out of

The store is all out of beer.

Pick up

I'll pick up the kids after school.

Pick up

First, I need to go pick up some bread from the bakery.

Pick up

Could you pick up the clothes from the dry cleaners as well?

Promotion

My favorite clothing is having a promotion today on all their pants.

Promotion

The grocery store is having a promotion on all the leftover Valentine's Day candy.

Promotion

The car dealership put on a promotion for their newest car last month.

Never mind

The apartment has no furniture? Never mind, I will look for another place.

Never mind

Never mind, I'm not going if she's not going.

Never mind

Never mind, that breaking into abandoned buildings is illegal. It's fun.

Last but not least

Last but not least, as our maid, I need you to cook dinner three times a week.

Last but not least

Last but not least, can you take a look at the brakes as well?

Last but not least

Last but not least, we have Gillian who played the part of Goose.