Eating 50-year-old stew

6 Minute English

BBC

Language Learning, Education

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Would you eat a stew that's been in a pot for 50 years?

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0:00.0	6 Minute English from BBC LearningEnglish.com.
0:07.6	Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
0:11.9	I'm Phil.
0:12.6	And I'm Beth.
0:14.1	Most people have eaten some unusual food at least once in their life.
0:18.9	What's the most unusual thing you've ever eaten, Beth?
0:21.8	Oh, I ate camel in Australia and I really didn't like it, to be honest.
0:28.5	What about you?
0:29.7	I ate Cayman in northern Argentina and it was delicious.
0:33.2	Oh, okay, good.
0:35.1	Well, in this program, we'll be discussing some very unusual food, known as Forever Food.
0:41.8	Dishes like stews and soups, which can be kept going day after day, year after year.
0:48.2	We'll also be learning some useful new vocabulary, all of which you can download, along with a worksheet for this program,
0:55.1	at our website, BBClearningEnglish.com.
0:58.4	But let's get back to Forever Food and a Bangkok restaurant called Wataner Panic
1:04.4	that's famous for a soup which has been cooking for over 50 years.
1:09.9	Here's radio listener David Shirley,
1:12.4	who calls BBC World Service program the food chain
1:15.8	after tasting the soup himself.
1:18.2	No, I had never heard of a perpetual stew before,
1:23.3	but the first time I'd ever heard about it was when I was in Bangkok.
1:26.9	I found a stew that had been simmering for 50 years.
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