Today, Mitch and Isi discuss all things fruit; the horrors of hairy fruits and mushy apples, Mitch's preference for a cold and crunchy banana, watermelon life-hacks, surviving on coconuts, the versatilities of apples and question; what the hell a lemon posset is and if Halle Berry is actually a fruit?

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Mitch:

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Isi:

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Mitch:

[0:12 ] Easy English!

Intro

Mitch:

[0:34 ] (Hello!) Hiya, welcome to the new episode of the Easy English Podcast. That is so formal.

Isi:

[0:39 ] I don't like to look at you while we record it. I have to laugh.

Mitch:

[0:44 ] We're so far away again.

Isi:

[0:46 ] Hello, down there, in the hallway.

Mitch:

[0:49 ] Yeah, it feels like we're in a hallway.

Isi:

[0:51 ] I will just directly say it. Mitch, We had The Big Veg Show (The Veg Cast. ) The Veg Cast. I hope people enjoyed it because I said it already, what comes this week. And it's The Big, Big Fruit Show.

Mitch:

[1:05 ] The Fruit Show, The Veg Cast and The Fruit Show.

Isi:

[1:07 ] Yeah, we couldn't do it both last time, so we need to talk about fruits.

Mitch:

[1:11 ] It wouldn't have been fair, though, to have thrown fruits on the ends of veg, because fruits don't... shouldn't be disrespected like that.

Isi:

[1:17 ] But fruits have a better life. Most of them are very sugary, so people usually like them more than veg. I would say.

Mitch:

[1:25 ] But we're savoury people. No, that sounds like... (We are savoury people.) That's actually a compliment. Because you can be a very unsavoury.

Isi:

[1:33 ] Will you make us a drink? Because I wanna ask our listeners for something, in between.

Mitch:

[1:37 ] Okay, feels like you're booting me out of the room, to say something private.

Isi:

[1:41 ] No, I just want a drink.

Mitch:

[1:42 ] If you'd like to listen to this podcast, without Mitch, give us a thumbs up.

Isi:

[1:46 ] What I wanted to ask, today is a little bit of a favour. You might know that, in podcast apps, where you listen to us. Um, there are several of podcast apps. It does help, if you give us a review of our podcast, on some apps you can leave a comment about our podcast. And this interaction, if you give like, a response to our podcast, will help others to find our podcast. So, if you could just today, if you like our podcast, take a second out of your day and see in your app where you can leave us

a review, a comment, a rating That will be fantastic. It's weird to ask for things, but I think it would be really, really, really nice if you could help us with this. Anyway, and also, if you have questions for our podcast or for us, write us an email to podcast@english.video or on easyenglish.fm. You can also leave us an audio message. We have a section called 'Unhelpful Advice' and we are still waiting for your problems and issues to solve. Okay, now Mitch is back and we can go on with fruits. (Is margarita a fruit?)

Topic of the Week

Isi:

[3:09 ] I have a few questions first, and then I would guide you through the world of fruits. Um, what is... (Come with me.) What is your favourite fruit?

Mitch:

[3:14 ] Off the top of my head, I'm thinking strawberries, but it probably isn't. But strawberries are just like, a solid fruit.

Isi:

[3:21 ] So I wanted to say peach, I really like a really good peach, but peach can be really shit as well.

Mitch:

[3:32 ] I know what yours is and it's my like, curveball, because when you... when you think of fruits, you think of sweetness. But I think, actually, if we were to really go into it, what fruit we eat the most, especially you, It would be a sour fruit.

Isi:

[3:48 ] Lemon. Yeah, lemon is probably my favourite fruit because I eat it most.

Mitch:

[3:53 ] It's my favourite pudding. Anything with lemon?

Isi:

[3:54 ] I love citrus fruits. Anyway, I love lime, love oranges... favourite pudding.

Mitch:

[3:59 ] Yeah. Anything with a lemon on it. (Lemon cake.) Lemon drizzle, for shizzle, ma nizzle, Lemon cheesecake.

Isi:

[4:05 ] Lemon posset. (Lemon posset.) Posset. Posset. Such a thing I've learned in England. Um, with watching 'Come Dine With Me'. Everybody does a lemon posset. It sounds so posh.

I don't even know really what it is. It's a lemon cream or something. A lemon posset And they're always like; "for dessert, I have a lemon posset". And then you hear the other people talking in the off later in the car, and they're like; "a lemon posset, everybody's doing a lemon lemon posset and hers was not particularly good".

Mitch:

[4:38 ] I don't know what it is either. We should make one, just to sound fancy.

Isi:

[4:42 ] Lemon posset.

Mitch:

[4:43 ] Last night we had a lemon posset. Wasn't it just absolutely delightful, lemon posset.

Isi:

[4:47 ] I'll look it up now.

Mitch:

[4:48 ] I'm always very disappointed by nectarines.

Isi:

[4:53 ] Yeah! (Yeah.) Good nectarines are good.

Mitch:

[4:55 ] Yeah, but that's the... that's my I've never had a fully ripe one. I think ever.

Isi:

[5:01 ] I just looked up my least favourite fruit, and it's not in my list. So, we we have to do the list together. Um, a gooseberry

Mitch:

[5:10 ] You don't like gooseberries?

Isi:

[5:11 ] No, they're hairy. They're a weird mix of sweet and sour. And you know what they are... mushy.

Mitch:

[5:18 ] Er... mushy.

Isi:

[5:20 ] Don't like mushy foods at all. Mushy apples; urgh! Mushy bananas; urgh!

Mitch:

[5:26 ] Yeah. Oh, yeah! That That's my pet peeve. I love bananas, but they have to be kind of, not quite ripe.

Isi:

[5:37 ] No, yours are the least ripe I've ever seen.

Mitch:

[5:40 ] And in the fridge. Cold and crunchy. And probably my least favourite fruit is like a warm, mushy banana. Urgh! Urgh! Oh, I feel sick. Yours is gooseberry, because they're a bit hairy.

Isi:

[5:57 ] Yeah, gooseberry and my favourite. I don't know if my favourite would be lemon, but it has to be, because that's what I eat most.

Mitch:

[6:02 ] Uh, when you say a hairy fruit is a bit gross, isn't it? Like, have you ever eaten a kiwi? And you've forgotten to take off a little bit of the skin? And you're like, Ugh, what is that? And it's a bit of a hairy skin.

Isi:

[6:11 ] Actually, I recently learned that a lot of people eat it with the skin. You can eat the skin. You just eat it like that.

Mitch:

[6:16 ] That's disgusting.

Isi:

[6:17 ] OK, my favourites are strawberry, peach, mango, lemon.

Mitch:

[6:21 ] Yeah. Oh, I have one as well. Sorry. Do we have time for this last one? (No, we do.) I really want to use it more, but I don't know how to use it. And maybe, if anyone has a good recipe or a good way to like, cook it or prepare it. I really, really like rhubarb.

Isi:

[6:38 ] I love rhubarb. (I love the taste of rhubarb.) Rhubarb season is at the same time as strawberry.

Mitch:

[6:44 ] Oh, really? (I think so.) But I don't really know how to do it, but maybe someone who's listening can send us either a voice message to easyenglish.fm or write to us at podcast@easyenglish.video.

Isi:

[6:57 ] Yeah. Um... how do you? Yeah, how do you eat rhubarb in England? I've only seen it in cakes in... in Germany, I can just say we cook it, with a hell lot of sugar. (Where? In the oven or in a pan?) in a in a pot. (In a pot?) Yeah, you cook it and it kind of gets like this soupy, slimy mass. Sounds disgusting. It's quite good. And you can eat it with strawberries or with like, a vanilla sauce or something like this. Let's go now, through the berries. Strawberry, we already talked about. (Good berry.) Blueberry.

Mitch:

[7:28 ] I really like blueberries.

Isi:

[7:32 ] You like it more than me. We eat it basically every day. I still eat them. They're nice.

Mitch:

[7:36 ] Blueberry muffin.

Isi:

[7:38 ] Yeah, but you know what I don't like? And you often do it. Blueberry smoothies.

Mitch:

[7:43 ] Oh, I love the blueberry smoothy.

Isi:

[7:44 ] Too much blueberry. Then it is overbearing, isn't it? I like blueberries, I like them... I actually like both parts of them. Some are like, really big and not so sour, but really like, fresh. And then there're the little ones, that are super sour, both are good.

Mitch:

[7:58 ] Blueberries are... is a not safe for work fruit because, the skin always manages to sort of, somehow wrap itself around your teeth.

Isi:

[8:05 ] Mm, Yeah. And what is very English and maybe you can say how it's used here, is blackcurrant.

Mitch:

[8:15 ] Just someone saying blackcurrant makes you think of being like three years old with a glass of blackcurrant squash. I'm sure many other kids from the who grew up in the nineties, might think of that.

Isi:

[8:25 ] Which are the ones that we often see on our walks. Just recently, we saw a lot of them. They look like raspberries, but black.

Mitch:

[8:32 ] Oh, isn't that a gooseberry (No.) Blackberry? Yeah. Must be.

Isi:

[8:36 ] Like you don't know what a gooseberry is. Google Gooseberry now, so that you understand my.

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