Free English Class! Topic: Fruit and Fruit Idioms! 🍇🍌🍎🍊🍉 (Lesson Only)

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Learn English with Bob the Canadian


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Well, hello and welcome to this English lesson that isn't just
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about fruit. It's about fruit and some little phrases, some
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idioms that we have in English that have fruit in them. Um I
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think you'll probably know some of these but we'll see as the
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lesson goes along. This lesson was requested and I think a lot
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of people will appreciate it. I do have to say though most of
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the fruit I will talk about will be the fruit that's common
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here in Canada. There may be fruits on this list that that
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you don't recognize. I think you'll recognize most of them
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but there might be some that you think are missing but
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anyways, let's do a lesson about fruit. And let's learn
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some idioms about fruit along the way. So, the first fruit I
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picked is the apple. I think you all know what an apple is.
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I did wanna talk a little bit though about where we get
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apples. We buy our apples at the farmers market. Apples are
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grown on apple trees in an apple orchard. I'm not sure if
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you are familiar with the word orchard. An orchard is a large
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field, I guess, filled with apple trees. Apples are
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delicious. Jen eats an apple every day. I don't. I should
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probably eat more apples. Um but that does remind me of an
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idiom that I didn't put in this lesson and that's an apple a
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day keeps the doctor away. So there's this saying that if you
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eat an apple every day, you'll be healthy and you won't ever
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need to see a doctor. When you eat an apple, you eventually
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have an apple core. When you're done eating, So, after you've
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eaten all of the good parts of the apple, what's left is
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called an apple cord. We have a phrase in English, a bad apple
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or a rotten apple. I use the phrase bad apple quite often.
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Uh I'm not sure who this person is. This is just a picture from
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a free picture website but he looks like he's in trouble.
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When you have a person who is constantly getting in trouble
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in school, you might say they're a bad apple. Instead of
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studying, maybe they're doing things that are illegal during
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the school day or at night. Um and it doesn't need to be a
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student. You might have a cousin who's kind of a bad
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apple. No matter where they go, they get in trouble. So, bad
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apple is one idiom that we have with the word apple in it. And
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then there's the city of New York which is referred to as
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the Big Apple. I tried to figure out why it was called
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this but I didn't have enough time to do all my research. So,
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maybe somebody who's watching can figure out why New York
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City, the big city in the state of New York, why it's called
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the Big Apple. Um I have been to Big Apple once. I went there
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once with some friends a very very very long time ago. We
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visited Times Square and we did some other fun things in New
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York City in the Big Apple. We also have a a fruit called a
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cherry. Um I like cherry pie but I don't actually like
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cherries. Cherry pie is a dessert that you make. You're
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probably familiar with apple pie, cherry pie. Um we have a
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number of different kinds of pie in North America. I really
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like cherry pie. I think because cherry pie has a lot of
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sugar in it. That's probably why I like it. Hey, when you
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eat cherries, you have to spit out the pits. So, in the center
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of a cherry, there is a cherry pit. So, people will often eat
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cherries outside and then, they'll try to shoot the pit
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out of their mouth as far as they can. That's that's an
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interesting game to play. Sometimes, Jen and I and the
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kids will eat cherries outside and try to spit the pits far
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away. We have a phrase in English called to cherry pick.
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And it's a phrase you use in sports. When someone instead of
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playing defense they hang out by the goal or the net. It's
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something that happens quite a bit in hockey. It happens quite
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a bit in basketball. Less so in football or soccer because
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you're often offsides if you're too far ahead. But in hockey or
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basketball if you're cherry picking it means instead of
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trying to get the puck from the other team you're kind of
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waiting for some to give you the puck so you can score right
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by the net. You can sort of see it in this picture here. The
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red dot would represent someone who's cherry picking. The rest
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of his team or her team is trying really hard to get the
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ball but that person is just waiting for someone to pass it
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to them so they can get an easy basket. Pear. So, I don't
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actually like pears very much. I will eat them. I actually
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like pears from a can or from a jar. So, sometimes, we'll at
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the store, we'll buy a can of pears and I like those better
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probably because there's a lot of sugar in that too. Um but
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pears look kind of like an apple but with an extra piece
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on the top and they certainly taste different. Um we used to
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have a pear tree on the farm many many years ago but we no
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longer have one. I think eventually it I think it might
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have died. I should go look sometime. It's down the hill.
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And we have a phrase in English to go pear shaped. This is when
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something goes wrong. Um when I was starting before the live
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stream mode said I hope the lesson doesn't go pear shaped
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today. So if this lesson went pear shaped that would mean
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that I forgot how to explain things or people were having
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trouble connecting or the connection was bad. That would
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be something going pear shaped. I put this up because sometimes
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you go on a nice trip in the winter in Canada. And then the
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trip kinda goes pear shaped because you run into a lot of
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snow and maybe you get stuck somewhere. So, when you say
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that something goes pear shaped in English, it means that it
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doesn't, it goes wrong. It doesn't go the way you are
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hoping for it to go. And now my favorite fruit. Some of you I
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think mentioned this already in the chat. Bananas are my
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favorite fruit. At this point in the lesson, I will thank
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everyone who lives in a country that grows bananas. I really
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like bananas. I eat. I would say I eat one every day but
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it's probably more like I eat 25 to 30 bananas a month. I eat
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about five or six bananas a week. I try to eat one every
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day but sometimes we run out of bananas. In our stores, the
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bananas are yellow but sometimes the bananas are green
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and then when you buy green bananas you have to wait a
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couple of days for them to turn yellow before they are ripe
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enough to eat when you eat a banana you peel the banana and
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then you eat what's on the inside. Um I do really really
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like bananas. And they are one of the cheapest fruits to buy
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in Canada. Which seems strange to me because they all come in
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on a boat from really far away. Um I think I'm not sure where
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the bananas are from that I'm eating right now but they're
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usually from somewhere in Central America usually. And
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then we have the phrase to go bananas. So, this phrase has a
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couple of meanings. It means to be really excited. If I walked
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into my classroom and started throwing candy, my students
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would go bananas. That means that they would be really
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excited. They would jump out of their desks and try to grab the
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candy that's on the floor. They would be really excited. It can
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also mean though to get angry. Like you could say, oh, he was
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in a car accident and then he just went bananas like he was
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yelling, he was screaming. It's probably more often used as
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something to to describe people who are excited in a positive
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way but it can be used the other way as well. And then top
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banana. Second banana. I think I taught this phrase on my
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other channel. So when you work somewhere you could say your
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boss is the top banana. Um I would probably say top dog but
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some people say top banana. And then maybe the boss there's
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someone just under the boss. We would call that person the
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second banana. So some people like being second banana. Some
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people like being the top banana. I like just being a
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worker. I don't wanna be. I don't want to have too much
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responsibility. I And then we have grapes. We actually grow
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grapes close to our farm. There's an area where grapes
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can grow. The climate on our farm isn't warm enough but when
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you're close to the great lakes there's a micro climate where
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people can grow grapes. But grapes are yummy to eat. Grapes
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are of course used to make grape juice and grape and wine.
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Uh there are a lot of wineries actually close to where I live
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as well. Because they can grow grapes when you have an area
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where you can grow grapes, you naturally have wineries, places
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where wine is made and grapes grow in a vineyard by the way.
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Um I forgot to mention that with some of the other fruits
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but that's okay. Grapes grow in a vineyard and they grow on a
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vine. So the phrase sour grapes refers to anyone who you know
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they're just annoyed and upset about something and usually it
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reminds me of sports fans when their team loses. They can
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really be sour grapes. They can really be annoyed and they
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blame it on the referee and they find all kinds of reasons
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or excuses why their team should have won. So they're
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sour grapes. It means to be upset about something but maybe
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not Have a good reason to be upset. So, definitely this
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reminds me of sporting events. An orange. So, this is what's
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known as citrus fruit. Oranges, grapefruits, lemons,
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tangerines, all of those are considered citrus fruit. Um our
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oranges in Canada, when you buy an orange, it is almost always
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from Florida. Almost all of the oranges in Canada come from
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Florida. Um it's very nice to live close to the United
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States. It's nice to live close to a country that produces all
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different kinds of citrus fruit. So, I'm sure there are
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big trucks that regularly drive from Florida to Canada and
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bring oranges here. Probably, I probably drink more orange
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juice. Yeah I I prefer orange juice over eating an orange. I
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actually like orange juice quite a bit. Uh an orange is
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again something you need to peel to eat. You don't eat the
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you don't eat the orange peel. Um but you do eat the inside.
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And sometimes the orange is seedless. And sometimes it has
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seeds in it. So depends on what kind of orange you buy. I like
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the seedless kind. And we have a phrase in English comparing
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apples to oranges. When you compare apples to oranges. It
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means you're talking about two things that really can't be
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compared. If you were to talk about the economy in Canada, or
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yeah, how would I describe this? Let me think of a good
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way to describe this. I think it's like, if you talk about
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how farming is done in Canada versus farming in let's say,
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Japan, it's like comparing apples to oranges. It's done
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differently, okay? There might be some similarities but
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sometimes you, that might have been a bad example but
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sometimes you can't things and it's like comparing apples to
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oranges. The peach, there are a lot of peaches growing around
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here. Peaches are very, very yummy. Peaches are quite juicy
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when you eat a peach. You often get peach juice on your face
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when you're eating it, especially if it's really,
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really ripe but this is one of my favorite summer fruits. It's
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really nice in the summer because we get fresh peaches
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from our neighbor at the farmer's market and a peach has
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fuzz on it. So, just like when you have a little bit of hair
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on your face, you have a little bit of fuzz, a peach has really
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small hairs on it. We call it peach fuzz. We actually here's
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another, here's a phrase I don't have in here but when a
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young man around age 12 or 13 or 15 or 16, when they start to
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grow hair on their face, it's very very fine hair and we call
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it peach fudge, fuzz, sorry, not fudge, peach fuzz. We say,
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oh he has a little bit of peach fuzz on his face. He's starting
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to become a man. We describe things that are cool as peachy,
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okay? Like if someone says to Jen, I need 10 bouquets today.
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Can I pick them up at ten? Jen could say, oh yeah, that's
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peachy. That means it's great. That's okay. Um if someone
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says, I want to give you $1$, 000. You can say that's peachy.
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That's just peachy. It means really cool. It means really
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exciting. It means something that you like. Kiwi. So, kiwi
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is an interesting fruit. Apparently, you can eat the
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skin but I don't like the skin. When we buy kiwis, I often peel
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them. I actually peel the the kiwi. Did I say peaches? Kiwi.
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When we get kiwi, I peel the kiwi. Um I find kiwis taste a
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little bit like strawberries. I really, really like kiwis. Now,
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kiwi is also a word we use to talk about people from New
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Zealand. People from New Zealand often refer to
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themselves as kiwis. This is a guy named his YouTube channel
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is called How to Dad and he makes really really funny
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videos about being a parent. He's a Kiwi. He's someone who's
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from the country of New Zealand. And then here we have
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the lemon. So the lemon is an interesting citrus fruit. Not
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only is it used well not a lot of people eat lemons. Maybe I
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should start by saying that. Not a lot of people eat lemons
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but people use lemons in a lot of recipes. People make a lot
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of things out of lemonade. Lemons. They make lemonade.
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They make iced tea with lemon flavoring. Um if you go to a
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bar, a lot of alcoholic drinks will have lemon slice of lemon
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in it. Um in restaurant in Canada. When you ask for water,
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it might have a slice of lemon in it. Um there are a lot of
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things that you can make with lemon. But not a lot of people
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eat lemons. They usually use the lemon to make something
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else. And here you have a man looking at his car. In English
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when you say something is a lemon. Usually you're talking
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about a used car that doesn't work right. Okay? So if I
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bought a used car and it just kept breaking all the time I
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would say I bought a lemon. I think you could say this about
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a new car too. But it's when you buy something and it
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regularly breaks all the time. Like oh Joe bought a new car.
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Oh does he like it? No it's a lemon. It just he's taking it
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to the garage three times. So far. And then we have this
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phrase in English. When life gives you lemons, make
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lemonade. This is a phrase because lemons are sour. And so
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if life is giving you lemons, it's like life is giving you
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experiences that aren't enjoyable. And your job then is
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to make lemonade. So, hopefully you understand this. It
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basically means if life's kinda crappy right now, if life isn't
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going well, you have to find a way to make it exciting and
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joyful and happy. Um so, when life Gives you lemons. Make
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lemonade. It sounds really simple though, doesn't it? It's
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not always that easy to make your life better. And then we
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have melons. So, this is a cantaloupe. There are several
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different kinds of melons. Uh melons are very very tasty. You
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usually cut a melon up in order to eat it. You usually cut it
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into slices. You usually remove all the seeds from the center
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if it's a if it's a melon like this one. Um but we also use
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the word melon to talk about someone's head. So, this is a
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slang word for someone's head. You know, oh, he got hit in the
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melon. Someone threw a ball at him in the gymnasium and he got
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hit in the melon. So, melon is another word for your head. And
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then we have the grapefruit. I think yes, okay. I'm just
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checking here. A grapefruit is an interesting fruit. It's a
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citrus fruit. It's bigger than an orange. It's definitely a
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more sour. People often eat them for breakfast in North
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America. They cut them in half and they might actually put
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sugar on top of it. My mom when I was younger would eat a
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grapefruit every morning. She would cut it in half and she
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would sprinkle sugar on the grapefruit and then she would
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eat it with a special spoon. That was kinda like a knife on
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one side so she could cut the sections out. I don't know. I
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should eat more grapefruit so I know what I'm talking about. We
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do have something called the Grapefruit League in North
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America. So, the baseball team in Toronto is called the
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Toronto Blue Jays but before they play for the regular
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season in Toronto, they actually play in what's called
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the Grapefruit League in Florida. This is called
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preseason training or training camp or spring training. So,
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the Blue Jays, the whole team lives in Florida for a few
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weeks and they play in a league called the Grapefruit League
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with all the other national league teams or American League
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teams. Sorry, I should get my baseball facts straight. So,
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the Grapefruit League is just how we talk about spring
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training for professional baseball in North America. I
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think there's also a Cactus League out in Arizona or one of
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the western states but because it's winter in the early
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spring, it's still too cold to play baseball. Many teams will
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go to the south to practice and get ready for the regular
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season and the one that takes place in Florida is called the
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Grapefruit League. I'm going to go over a few different fruits
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and this lesson has no more idioms. Sorry about that. But
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we're going to talk about things like the strawberry. As
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I said in Canada in my part of Canada strawberries are in
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season during the month of June. There are other
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strawberries available but the normal regular strawberries are
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available usually in the month of June. Um and we usually buy
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a lot of them. We have a lot of ice cream or sorry strawberry
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sandwiches. Jen likes eating strawberries on bread and we
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have a lot of strawberries and ice cream during that time. So,
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we cut the strawberries up and put them on vanilla ice cream.
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Very, very yummy. We also have raspberries in this area. Um we
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don't buy a lot of raspberries. They're quite expensive. A lot
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of people buy raspberries to make jam. Raspberry makes
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really, really good jam that you can preserve and eat during
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the rest of the year. And as was just mentioned, blueberries
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are very very popular. We buy frozen blueberries year round.
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Uh we use blueberries. Jen eats blueberries with her yogurt.
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Sometimes if we blend a lot of fruit together to make a fruit
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smoothie. We'll put blueberries in as well. They are very very
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yummy. Sometimes I put blueberries on my pancakes as
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well. We have plums. We usually have plums mid summer. So,
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around the middle of the summer, Jen will come home from
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market with plums. It's not the most popular fruit in our
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house. Um our kids and myself included. I don't I like plums
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if they're really ripe but they're not my favorite fruit
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but a plum is a small purple fruit. This one's a little bit
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more blue but they're blue or purple. Um and definitely grown
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in this area as well. And then we have apricots. An apricot
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looks like a small peach but it doesn't taste like a peach. It
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has its own unique flavor. It's very sweet. I really really
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love apricots but we don't have them very often. Only for about
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a couple weeks in the middle of the summer can we buy apricots.
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And then we have the nectarine. So the nectarine is a peach
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without hair. It doesn't have peach fuzz on it. And it has a
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slightly different taste. It looks like a peach. It tastes
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kind of like a peach but I would say it tastes more like a
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nectarine. It has its own flavour. Um and it would be I
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think I like if I could choose between a peach and a
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nectarine. If they were both really really ripe. I think I
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prefer the nectarine. The the slightly different taste. And
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then we have the avocado. So avocados are not grown in
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Canada. They are imported. Um avocados are really really
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yummy. We buy avocados frozen and we put them in smoothies.
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Um but we also sometimes buy something called guacamole. Or
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we make guacamole. Those of you who are from countries where
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you have avocados are probably familiar with that. Uh some
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avocado, little bit of lemon juice, a little bit of salt,
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mushed all up. Very very very tasty to eat with chips or corn
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chips or on tortillas. I really, really like avocados
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that way. We have started to bake using dates. Dates are
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very, very high in sugar. They are imported. So, when we want
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dates, we do have to buy them. They do come from other
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countries but we have started to make cookies with dates in
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them and brownies with dates in them. Instead of using sugar in
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the recipe, we will use dates and it's very, very tasty. And
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then there's the fig. I have not eaten very many figs in my
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life. We do not grow figs in Canada. It is definitely a very
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popular fruit around the world though. In many countries, figs
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are very very popular, readily available if you want to buy
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something to eat. But unfortunately not in Canada. I
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will try to buy some this week though. We also have raisins
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which are dried grapes. Uh raisins are very popular in
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Canada but all of our raisins come from the United States
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Almost all of our raisins come from California. Uh and maybe
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you've heard about the California raisins. There's a
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TV commercial that advertises raisins and they have little
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like cartoon raisins that sing. We use raisins to make things
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like raisin bread. We make things like butter tarts with
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raisins in them. Um I like to just eat raisins by themselves.
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They're very very very tasty. Very sweet though raisins. And
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then, not only do you have lemons but you also have limes.
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So, a lime is very similar to a lemon but it's very green. It's
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another type of citrus fruit. Um a lot of things are flavored
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with lemon and flavored with lime or limes are used in
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drinks at a bar or something like that but it's not common
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for people to buy limes to eat. They're very very sour. But
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some things are even like lemon lime flavor. I think the
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popular soda sprite is lemon lime flavored. I think that's
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what it is. And then watermelon. So in Canada we do
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grow watermelons and when watermelons are in season
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throughout the summer we often will buy one. Jen will cut it
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up into pieces. Uh and then the kids will eat it. I don't I do
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like it but I don't eat a lot of it. Um we try to buy
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seedless watermelons. But sometimes we buy watermelons
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that have seeds in them. Um and sometimes I think people call
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them pips as well. Not pips. Pips. But there's small black
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seeds in the watermelon. And then cantaloupe is also do we
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look at this? Oh we looked at melon earlier didn't we? Yeah
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so a cantaloupe is a very very yummy kind of watermelon. We
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also call it musk melon. There's a green version that's
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called the honeydew melon. But melons like cantaloupe when
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they're ripe are very very yummy and tasty. I really do
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like eating them. Um as well. Especially when they're grown
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in Canada. And we're and if we get them from market and
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they're really ripe. Tangerines are these smaller citrus
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fruits, smaller than an orange. Um sometimes they're called
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tangerines and there's a couple different varieties of them and
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they're just a slightly different version of an orange
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for me. Um I do like them. We do buy citrus fruit in the
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winter and try to eat as much as we can. We have small
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oranges called mandarin oranges as well. Those are very yummy
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too. And then the pineapple So the pineapple is a very popular
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fruit for a variety of reasons. It's used in a number of
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different recipes. Um it's used to make things seem tropical.
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People will eat pineapple. People will put pineapple on
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pizza. I think you're familiar with the pineapple. Um it's
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usually though when we buy pineapple we buy it in a jar.
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We don't buy it and cut it up ourselves. So probably that's
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the lazy way to buy pineapple. Um but pineapple is certainly
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tasty. It's kind of a mix between like it's sweet but
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it's a little bit sour at the same time. I really like that
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mix with pineapple. Um and really yummy in smoothies as
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well if you put it in a blender. And then some people
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there's an argument that you should never put pineapple on
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pizza. But again we have if you go to a pizza place in North
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America and say I'll have an extra large Hawaiian pizza.
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That means you want a pizza with pineapple and ham on it. I
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actually like it. I don't have a problem with it. It's it's
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quite yummy.
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