Welcome to another episode of Amigo Gringo, today I'm in Madison Square Park,
a place with a lot of squirrels,
because I'm going to teach you something very interesting - how to make a squirrel sit on your lap.
-So, the secret is... -Amigo Gringo!
-Wow, I can't believe it! -My God! I can't believe it!
-How are you? -It's Teacher Allie! I thought you lived in Porto Alegre !
What are you doing here?
I do live there but I'm visiting New York!
And how are you liking the city?
Loving it. But there are just some really strange things, so I'm happy I saw you.
I need your help.
I was going to explain something pretty boring, but I think I'd rather see what you're thinking and how I can help.
I'll show you - but these are things to eat.
Perfect, I'm actually hungry.
This thing here, what is this?
-Where did you get it? -I found it in a pharmacy.
-Can you believe it? -Slim Jim! It's an American classic!
First, how is this found in a pharmacy, and what is it?
It's a "Thiago Magro" [literal translation], Slim Jim.
But what is it, sausage?
It's basically dried meat, I'd sort of call it jerky.
Let's look at the ingredients. It's not exactly known as the healthiest snack in the United States.
Look, it has beef, pork, and look at this, mechanically separated chicken.
-What the heck? -I like my chicken mechanically separated.
I don't know what it is. Let's taste it. You go first.
-Oh God. -It's not bad.
It takes like a sausage.
Exactly.
You could put it in a "feijoada," an American "feijoada."
It doesn't say that it's spicy but it is.
It's spicy for Brazilians, "spicy" here is something stronger.
What else do you have?
I brought something else I found, very weird.
It's meat? Dried meat?
It's something else in the same category. We like meat here, like you do in Brazil, and this is jerky.
The word comes from the same root as "charque". It's a dried meat.
It's another variety of dried meat. Except that this comes in all kinds of flavors.
This one is Teriyaki, it's a Japanese flavor, a quote-unquote Japanese flavor.
I don't think they sell Jack Links Meat Snacks. Let's open it.
Lucky we're not vegetarians because you've chosen a lot of meat.
-Look at this! -Yummy!
-It looks a bit like a tongue, right? -Oh my.
It's like I'm sticking my tongue out.
My God. This is weird. It's like plastic, and it's sweet, and it's meat.
Look, here in New York we have food that's a bit more sophisticated, but this is something you might bring on a
road trip for six hours and you need a little protein.
You know, I didn't think it was so bad. What about you?
It has an interesting taste.
Of all the plastic I've had, it's some of the best.
And this here, I thought it was quite weird.
-These are pretzels. -Pretzels. But with salted caramel?
Ten, fifteen, twenty years ago, we didn't have so much variety.
But now they will put any flavor on pretzels. It's an effort to sell more pretzels.
You have normal pretzels, then you get some company that adds chives. Then you get Buffalo wing pretzels.
And then they start putting sweet stuff on it, now there are caramel pretzels.
If you want to try one of these pretzels, it's better to go to a pretzel store, like Auntie Anne's.
And there the pretzels are hot, and the caramel is inside the pretzel.
-Delicious. -Let's try them.
Pretzel with caramel flavor.
It has a really slight caramel flavor.
I prefer a normal pretzel. If I want some caramel, I'll get a caramel thing.
What happens is that when people eat snacks, everyone loves salt, so they add salt.
But everyone likes sweets, so they add sugar. Everyone loves fat, the add fat.
Normally, American snacks are not the healthiest.
Let's see what else you've got.
OK, let's go. This thing here.
Ah, ok, some snacks are actually healthy. This is "flavored green pea crisps," which would be
what, peas, with the thing the peas come in, how do you say that.
That's the pod.
Crunchy flavored pea pods.
In this case, it's Caesar salad flavor.
And it's baked.
They say it's baked so you know it's not fried,
N ow in theory, it's got 50% less fat, it's a good source of fiber, low salt compared with potato chips.
Now, 50% of the fat of potato chips, is still a lot of fat.
Cheers.
I was expecting something more natural-tasting. They're fooling you.
So, this is a little more "healthy" - I'll give it a 3 of 10.
-What do you think? -I give it a one.
I thought it was horrible.
How much other stuff do you have there? Because I've got something important to teach these guys.
I like it. You don't have this in Brazil, sunflower seeds?
I think we do but where I live it's not very common.
It's very common for baseball players to eat this, because you spend a lot of time sitting, waiting for your turn,
and before, they chewed tobacco, you know, I don't know how to say it in Portuguese.
They take it and "escupe" it.
Ah they spit it out.
That's the tradition but it's not very healthy anymore - it wasn't then either.
They eat sunflower seeds to pass the time, because you shell it in your mouth.
It's a little complicated if you don't know how to do it.
So, that's what it is.
You can't eat the shell. It's very weird.
I ate the seed and now you...
Wow, how did you do that?
-I'm really polite, right? -Yeah, super polite.
But it's much better than spitting saliva with tobacco.
-Much better. -So that was an improvement for baseball.
It's also good for someone on a diet because it's very slow to eat.
You have to remove the shell - after half an hour, you've consumed 50 calories.
But do you like it?
I like it.
But, hmm, Iike it. It's not my favorite snack.
No, it's not. 4 of 10.
And now I've got sweets.
I like sweets.
I found this strange thing, it's kind of molenga (mushy).
I don't know what molenga means, but I'm sure it's molenga.
Here you have a Hostess product. It's the brand that provides the most sugar and fat for our young people.
A public service from Hostess. But Hostess has some products that are a lot more famous.
The most famous product is the Twinkie.
This is like a version of a Twinkie. A Twinkie is a snack cake with cream inside.
"Cream?" It's not cream, it's sugar that looks like cream.
These are "Zingers."
It's cake with raspberry frosting - I swear there is no raspberry in this - and inside there's cream that's not cream.
Let's take a quick look at the ingredients.
Let's see if we find raspberry here, and cream.
Water, sugar, flour, corn syrup, which is sugar, coconut, shortening, and some chemicals.
So, it has neither raspberries nor cream, ok? I won't recommend it but I do admit I like it.
I do too...well, really I like salty snacks better.
-Do you like it? -No!
-Does it taste like raspberry? -No.
There is something red on top.
I'm going to finish this one and we'll give the rest to some kid.
Wow, it's really artificial.
Side note: kids, don't accept food from people you don't know on the streets of New York.
Yes. Try it.
-It's totally disgusting.
I didn't try that thing.
What's inside is a Twinkie, which is the least healthy thing in the world, and on top they've added artificial raspberry.
But the coconut is real.
Wait, I have to try this "cream" in the middle, I didn't have it before.
It's still terrible.
-Anything else in there? -No.
Then it's time for New Yorkese class.
NEW YORKESE CLASS
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OK, and now your New Yorkese class.
Today's word is "zinger."
which is the name of this snack cake, but it also has another meaning, do you know what it is?
A zinger is like a joke, often then you're insulting someone. Let me give you an example:
This is not true, I'm going to insult her, but it's not true.
Translate that into Portuguese.
You're not stupid, you just have bad luck when you're thinking.
That's a zinger.
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