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  • Hi, everyone.

  • I have a potato.

  • This potato is a very special potato because it's kind of old, and...

  • Oh, it's looking at me.

  • Hey, potato.

  • This potato I have, it's probably very delicious if I cook it, but it's very old because it

  • has these things growing off of the potato.

  • Do you know what these things are called in English?

  • They're called "eyes".

  • They can't actually see you.

  • Or can they?

  • But in English we have many foods that we describe with parts of the body.

  • I'm going to tell you a joke that you're not going to think is funny until after the lesson.

  • Okay?

  • So the joke is: Why shouldn't you tell a secret on a vegetable farm?

  • Okay? One more time.

  • Why shouldn't you tell a secret on a vegetable farm?

  • The answer is: Because potatoes have eyes, corn has ears, and beanstalk.

  • Not funny?

  • It's funny. The reason is for this lesson.

  • So, today I'm going to tell you about: "Food That Has Body Parts".

  • Cool. Stick with me, you'll get it.

  • So this is the end to the joke, just to help you, the punchline:

  • Potatoes have eyes, corn has ears, and beanstalk.

  • Beanstalk.

  • So let's get with the corn bit.

  • When you buy a corn-they're uncountable-it comes in a wrapper, and we call this an "ear of corn".

  • I don't know why we call it an ear of corn, that's just the name of it.

  • So in the joke: Potatoes have eyes, and ear is how we count the corn.

  • So we know that in English a lot of words are uncountable, but we can count how they're grown.

  • So, for example, corn is uncountable, but we can count the ears of corn.

  • We could have 10 ears of corn, but when we eat it we just call it corn and it's uncountable.

  • The same thing with lettuce and cabbage.

  • Lettuce and cabbage are uncountable, but what...

  • The way that we count them is we call them a "head of lettuce" or a "head of cabbage".

  • You can see by my wonderful picture: a head of lettuce, so lettuce has a head;

  • potatoes have eyes; and corn we count as an ear, the stalk.

  • There's some crazy things going on in English.

  • We have a kind of pasta that's very, very thin, and we call it "angel hair".

  • Oh, isn't that lovely?

  • It's very, very thin.

  • Thin, thin, thin spaghetti.

  • We call: "angel hair pasta".

  • There is a very popular sandwich, I don't like them, but they're popular: "open-face",

  • that sounds kind of gross.

  • It's like my open-face sandwich.

  • An open-face sandwich just means that there's no bread on top.

  • So is it a sandwich?

  • So you get two pieces of bread and you put all the ingredients on top, and you don't

  • close it, so it's open-face sandwich.

  • All right, the next one, little...

  • Little heart there for you, is an artichoke heart.

  • So, an artichoke you might know, it's a vegetable-Supreme Court ruling, vegetable-it's green and kind

  • of looks like a flower, but in English we call it an artichoke heart.

  • It's very common in the Middle East and in the Mediterranean.

  • You guys probably eat a lot of artichokes.

  • Do you call them hearts in your country, too?

  • No. Just us.

  • Okay.

  • The next one is this part of your arm.

  • Do you know what this part of your arm is called?

  • It's called an elbow.

  • So, there's a kind of macaroni, like a pasta, that is an "elbow macaroni".

  • Interesting thing about Italian pasta is a lot of the pasta names are named after body parts,

  • but it doesn't work in English.

  • Like, "orecchiette" is ear.

  • Right?

  • Yes, am I right?

  • So interesting that Italian people would name pasta after body parts.

  • So, the elbow is a kind of macaroni.

  • If you guys are living in Canada or America, we have something called Kraft Dinner, and

  • that is an example of elbow macaroni.

  • It looks...

  • No, it doesn't even look like an elbow.

  • Elbow macaroni looks basically like a tube.

  • Hmm.

  • I get it.

  • It's a stretch.

  • It's not that specific, but I get it.

  • The next one, one of my favourites, and really funny, too, is "chicken fingers".

  • I think that if you've watched lessons before you know that I've told you that chickens

  • don't have fingers; they have legs and feet.

  • But we have a delicious food called chicken fingers.

  • We also have "finger foods".

  • It's like our fingers are hungry, and they're like:

  • "Please give me something to eat. I'm dying, here."

  • But finger foods are little snacks or appetizers that we simply eat with our fingers.

  • And then we have "finger sandwiches".

  • Hmm.

  • So it's not really a sandwich.

  • You're not actually eating a finger, again, unfortunately.

  • Finger sandwiches are just one sandwich that's cut into slices.

  • So, you guys know a normal, regular, everyday sandwich kind of looks like this, and we cut

  • it like this so it resembles fingers.

  • Cool.

  • Hmm.

  • Let's move on to a little bit more X-rated part of the finger foods, shall we?

  • We have a kind of oranges that are called "navel oranges".

  • Navel is the spot in your body, it's also called your-one of my favourite words-"bellybutton".

  • Mm-hmm.

  • So, a navel is where the umbilical cord was attached when you were a child.

  • So we have navel oranges.

  • If you look at the orange it looks like it has a bellybutton.

  • Then we have "nuts".

  • So, gentlemen, you guys have nuts; girls don't.

  • And we also have "meatballs" and "chocolate balls".

  • So, in English, the word for "testicles" is "nuts" or "balls", so we can say:

  • "chocolate balls" or "meatballs".

  • We also have a "wiener" or a "sausage".

  • Wiener and sausage is slang for the men's penis.

  • Mm-hmm.

  • So, if somebody says to you: "Do you like wieners?"

  • Yeah, if someone says that to Ronnie, Ronnie laughs because that's wieners, you mean hotdogs.

  • Right?

  • And last one: "buns".

  • You might know this word as "ass" or "bum", but "buns" are slang for our ass.

  • And buns are kind of a cool, little thing here.

  • If you get a hotdog or a hamburger, we don't call the bread just bread, we call it a bun.

  • So we have a hotdog bun or we have a hamburger bun.

  • This is a hamburger bun and this is...

  • Hmm, I guess it really doesn't resemble our ass, but a hotdog bun, it's going to look

  • like this and then we put the hotdog inside.

  • Again, a bun.

  • Yeah, my drawings are pretty...

  • Pretty good, thank you.

  • Artists, yes.

  • If you guys would like some original art drawn by me,

  • just contact www.engvid.com and give me some money, I'll draw you a personal picture of my buns.

  • It'll be great.

  • Poppy seed buns.

  • I hope...

  • I hope you've enjoyed eating some finger foods and some assorted body parts.

  • The next time you're on lunch duty, tell me what they are in your country.

  • Til later.

  • Bye-bye.

  • And the last one: "beanstalk".

  • So if you guys look at this one, this is two words that we've put together.

  • A "beanstalk", a beanstalk is the plant that which beans grow out of.

  • So if you're growing beans, they come up like this and they grow in little pods here.

  • But the stick or the thing they grow off of is called a stalk.

  • But if you say it really quickly or if you separate it, it sounds like "beans talk".

  • So now the joke is funny.

  • Okay? Now you can tell your friends.

  • And they're not going to laugh, but: Why shouldn't you tell a secret on a vegetable farm?

  • Because potatoes have eyes, corn has ears, and beanstalk.

Hi, everyone.

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