Name: Expand Your English Vocabulary: 10 Adjectives for Describing Food
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I want to teach you a lesson that I think is important.

When I was teaching in school on a regular basis, I would find that a lot of students would say food tastes good, tastes excellent, it's delicious, it's yummy.

I never actually heard people talk about the texture of the food, and if you're confused by what I mean, I'll give you an example.

This cloth, okay, it's got a certain texture.

Texture means the way that it feels, which is different than the shirt that I'm wearing has a different... as my skin.

And with foods, we can describe foods to people by the texture.

Funny enough, we can't really explain to each other what food tastes like, or what have you, even what the texture is, but these words will give an idea for what someone can expect from something.

And sometimes we can be surprised by the texture of a food, thinking it's one way, and it's actually another.

But my job today is to help give you vocabulary so you can describe your favourite foods in a way that's mmm-mmm-mmm delicious to other people.

The word gooey sounds disgusting, doesn't it?

Well, gooey, wet and sticky, but in a good way.

Some things are gooey and you're like, ugh, ugh, ugh, like plaster or paint.

But when we talk about cheese, for instance, on a hot pizza, you can imagine the cheese and the melting cheese sliding down, you're like, ugh.

It has to be gooey and hot to be delicious.

So when somebody says the pizza is ooey gooey good, or the cheese is gooey, they mean there's lots of it, and it's falling, and it's sticky, and it's gooey in a good way.

So greasy is when you can either taste the oil, remember, foods can be put in water and boiled or we can fry them, we usually fry them in oil, or you can put them on a barbecue and grill them.

Well, when we talk about greasy foods, we're saying usually in a way that there's too much oil.

You can either taste the oil or, if you ever watch The Simpsons and they do the food taste test, they take paper, they slap food on and take it off.

If there's a greasy mark, they're like, it's fattening.

Remember that pizza I talked about is gooey?

And sometimes when you pick up the pizza, you see little grease parts.

If you say it's greasy, I would say that's too much oil, right?

So French fries can be greasy, a chicken, fried chicken, like a Kentucky fried chicken or there's the other ones, Popeye's chicken can be greasy, that means there's too much oil on the food, right?

This is a carrot, and you know when you hit a carrot, you go, oh, I think I broke my teeth.

When you hit a good carrot, you bite into it, you hear a crunch sound, right?

But it's... and it's loud, so it's crunchy and it's loud, right?

And when you chew it, you can hear it breaking down because it's a hard food, so we say something can be crunchy.

Now, let me go from crunchy to... where's number four, here?

It's going to seem similar because you're like, well, crumbly.

Well, when something's crumbly, I'm going to give you two examples.

I only put a cookie there, but anybody who's had a cookie, you're going to go, I know, you bite the cookie, and there's cookie bits everywhere.

And those of you who like a good Greek salad, you know the feta cheese, you take the feta cheese and you break it and it falls into smaller parts, and you put it over the salad, that's crumbly.

I actually like this Cuban cheese, I forget what it's called, it's S something.

It's very salty, and when you break it in half like that, it breaks into pieces.

Very crumbly cheese, you bite into these salty little...

I'm supposed to be describing, not going through my fantasies.

When you break a cookie, it falls into pieces.

The Swiss chocolate is some of the most delicious, creamy chocolate.

You put it in your mouth, you bite it, you don't even bite it.

You put it in your mouth, you suck on it a bit, mmm, you suck, and it just falls in your mouth.

It's creamy, it's like a milky kind of smooth, soft, thick, creamy.

You can get milkshakes like that, creamy milkshakes.

You drink the milkshake, and it's cool, but it's soft, we almost say velvety.

So when you say something's creamy, like a good coffee or a...

I don't know what a coffee drinker, but you put the milk and the coffee together, you know, when people drink that one.

I think it's like a latte or something, and they're like, it's creamy, ooo.

That's because it's smooth and soft, and usually thick and tasty.

Even though it's solid, it's when you put it in your mouth and you suck on chocolate, it comes like this nice, creamy, fluid kind of food.

One of our Prime Ministers said this on television and it became a meme, because he was saying something, and he went, it's moist.

And everybody was creeped out, like, ah, don't say that word ever again.

Do you remember we talked about the chocolate bar up here?

Well, when we have a chocolate cake, it's different.

Because it's like a bread, but when you put it in your mouth, it's not like bread which is dry, it's kind of a little bit wet.

That's why we like cake, and cake and bread are not the same.

Bread tends to be a bit drier, while cake, which is almost the same thing, is slightly wet and it's soft.

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