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Food Customs: Survey

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Food Customs: Survey

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4. Intermediate

Max wants to find out from you, what is normal in your country!

Will you get food, when you visit someone's home?

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In your culture, do you always offer someone food, when they visit your home?

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Will you be offended if guests refuse your offer for food/drinks?

to be offended

to offer food

to make for for someone and give them the option of having it or not

to refuse food

to say you don't want the food that was offered to you

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When you go out to dinner, who pays?

"splitting the bill"

you divide the bill by the number of people who ate, and each pay that

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In your culture, is it ok to put salt or pepper on food that someone has made for you?

seasoning the food

to add spices, or condiments to add to the flavour of the food

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When you toast, is it important to look someone in the eyes?

eye contact

looking someone directly in the eyes, with them looking back

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Is it important to say something before you start eating?

Last week, I went to an African restaurant, and we were eating with our hands. Some of my friends really didn't like this.

cutlery

chopsticks

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How does your culture eat?

In some cultures it is polite to eat everything on the plate, in others it is rude.

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What is more polite in your culture?

generosity vs enjoyment

generosity

showing a readiness to give more of something, especially money, than is strictly necessary or expected

"If you eat everything you are questioning their generosity"

"If you leave something, it looks like you didn't enjoy it."

sharing food

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In your culture, do you share food?

In France, bread is eaten with every meal. In some Asian cultures, rice is eaten with every meal.

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Are any of the following eaten with every meal in your culture?

Bread is eaten with every meal in the north of Italy.

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Will you get food, when you visit someone's home?

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Will you get food, when you visit someone's home?

to be offended

to offer food

to refuse food

"splitting the bill"

seasoning the food

eye contact

Last week, I went to an African restaurant, and we were eating with our hands. Some of my friends really didn't like this.

cutlery

chopsticks

In some cultures it is polite to eat everything on the plate, in others it is rude.

generosity vs enjoyment

generosity

"If you eat everything you are questioning their generosity"

"If you leave something, it looks like you didn't enjoy it."

sharing food

In France, bread is eaten with every meal. In some Asian cultures, rice is eaten with every meal.

Bread is eaten with every meal in the north of Italy.

Tortilla

Will you get food, when you visit someone's home?

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