Learn English with Canadian Snacks 🍫🍩🍪

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Learn English with Bob the Canadian


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Well, hello, and welcome to this English lesson
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where I'm going to teach you some words
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you can use to talk about food.
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And I'll teach you those words while
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trying some very common Canadian snacks.
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Now, these are not all invented in Canada.
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These are simply snacks that we tend to eat
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a lot, at least in my part of Canada.
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So welcome to this English
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lesson about describing food.
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I think it will be a really yummy
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lesson, and I think you'll learn a lot.
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So the first snack we're going
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to look at is called Smarties.
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Smarties are small, bite sized, oops,
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pieces of chocolate.
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Actually, they're chocolate in the center,
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and they have a candy coating.
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If I bite into one, you can see the
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center is chocolate and the outside is candy.
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They're also quite colorful, which makes
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them very popular with young children.
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And I think that they were actually invented in the
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UK, but they're definitely very popular here in Canada.
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So Smarties, a sweet chocolate
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snack that's really yummy.
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Really good with ice cream, by the way.
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Actually, just really good all the
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time, if you like chocolate.
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These are called Nanaimo Bars, and
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they were actually invented in Canada.
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They were invented in Nanaimo, BC.
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That stands for British Columbia, one of our provinces.
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They are really yummy.
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Normally, you would make these at home.
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I bought these at a store, though.
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They are delicious.
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They are another sweet snack.
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They have chocolate and coconut on the
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bottom, a yummy sweet custard in the
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middle, and then the top is chocolate.
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Mmm.
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Very good.
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Jen loves these.
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I'm sure she's gonna eat one later.
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So it's sweet, but it's also salty on the bottom.
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It's a nice mixture of the two, and
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it's certainly a delicious thing to eat.
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This is a little too big for me.
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The portion size is a little large.
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I would probably eat half of one of
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these, but this is a Nanaimo Bar.
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You should look up the recipe and maybe make
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one at home and see what it tastes like.
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So in Canada, we call these potato chips.
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We don't call them crisps in Canada.
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And we have some flavors that are a little bit unique.
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We have ketchup flavored and all dressed.
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Ketchup is obviously seasoned, so
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it tastes like ketchup.
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There's no actual ketchup on it.
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It's more like ketchup powder that's on it.
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And these are very crispy.
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I do like these.
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These are all dressed.
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All dressed simply means it's like a whole bunch
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of flavors mixed together so it looks like there's
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vinegar and pepper and onion and probably barbecue and
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a bunch of other things all put together.
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They also taste that way
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because there's seasoning on them.
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A normal potato chip is white, but as you can
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see, this one has seasoning powder put on it.
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Also quite crispy and super yummy.
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I don't actually usually like these, but
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this particular kind is really good.
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All dress chips and ketchup chips.
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Butter tarts are very common in Canada.
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Sometimes we make them at
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home, sometimes they're homemade.
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Sometimes we buy them in a store.
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I bought these in a store.
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And a butter tart is basically butter and
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sugar and then a crust on the outside.
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I'll open this up and let you see.
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These are actually pecan butter tarts.
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So in the middle there's like
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this gooey, buttery, yummy, sugary mixture.
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There's some pecans, because I like the pecan kind,
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and then kind of a mini pie crust.
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Let me break it open so you can see what I mean.
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So you can see the center there is a little bit gooey.
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Definitely sweet.
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I think there's a lot of sugar in butter tarts.
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Mmm.
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Yeah.
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I haven't had a butter tart for a long time.
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These are really good.
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I'm definitely going to finish this one later.
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I'm not going to eat all the snacks that
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I brought out for this lesson, but I am
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going to finish this butter tart later.
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It's super yummy.
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And the pecans taste really good as well.
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So this is a Coffee Crisp bar.
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We would call this a chocolate bar in Canada.
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And you can even see that it's sponsored by the
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NHL, the National Hockey League, that makes it extra Canadian.
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It is a chocolate bar that is flavored with coffee.
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If I show you the inside,
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there are wafers on the inside, a chocolate coating.
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Smells like coffee.
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It's crunchy.
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It's a little crumbly.
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There are some crumbs on the table, but
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this isn't one that I often buy.
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But in a pinch, I'll buy one.
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Like, if they don't have the chocolate bar I
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like, I will sometimes buy a Coffee Crisp.
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So a chocolate bar that also tastes like coffee.
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So this is Canada Dry.
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This is soda.
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We call it pop in my part of Canada, and
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it's made with sugar and carbonated water, and it's fizzy.
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It didn't go kah-chzzz when I opened
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it, though, because I already had some.
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I've been getting thirsty because of all the snacks
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that I've been eating, but it's definitely fizzy.
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You can taste the fizz in it and it's definitely sweet.
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So Canada Dry, invented in Canada. I think...
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I think ginger ale was invented somewhere
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else, but I think the dry version
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of ginger ale was invented in Canada.
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And this is really, really popular, by the way, even
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though it's ginger ale, there's no alcohol in it.
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It's just a normal soda that anyone can drink.
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So Canada Dry soda or pop made with ginger.
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So these are called Jos Louis.
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This is a classic Canadian snack, at
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least in my part of Canada.
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I ate a lot of these growing up.
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These are really yummy,
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small chocolate cakes that have two layers of cake
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inside, a chocolate coating and a cream center.
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Let me show you.
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I probably ate too many of these as a kid.
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I definitely ate too many of them as a teenager.
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But if I break it in half, you'll be
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able to see there is a nice white cream
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center, there's a nice filling, two layers of chocolate
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cake, and then a chocolate coating on the outside.
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These are really yummy.
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I actually like eating them while drinking pop.
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Mmm.
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That brings back memories.
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When I worked as a construction worker in the summers between
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university, I would eat like two of these a day.
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These are really yummy.
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And when you drink it with
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fizzy pop afterwards, it makes your...
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your mouth kind of goes fizzy.
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It's hard to explain. You'll have to try it.
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You'll have to find a Jos Louis somewhere and then a
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bottle of pop and eat one and drink some pop afterwards.
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Really yummy.
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Sweet, chocolatey cake snack.
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So these are maple cookies.
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Maple cookies are made with maple syrup.
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We have a lot of maple trees here in Canada.
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So often you will find different
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products made with maple syrup.
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These are also shaped like a maple leaf.
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So you can see here, this is a little maple cookie.
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It has a maple filling.
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Oh, I can already smell the maple flavor
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and they're quite crispy, yummy and sweet.
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I don't actually like these, so I'm
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not going to take a bite.
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I know that sounds crazy, doesn't it?
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I'm Canadian and there's a cookie shaped
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like a maple leaf flavored with maple.
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And should I still take a bite?
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Okay, let me take a bite.
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Crispy, very sweet.
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Strong maple flavor.
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I guess they're not too bad, but
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they're not my cup of tea.
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It's not the thing that I would eat.
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If there was a plate of chocolate chip
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cookies and a plate of maple cookies, I
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would eat the chocolate chip cookies for sure.
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But little cookies flavored with maple, shaped like a
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maple leaf, kind of a true symbol of Canada.
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So these are timbits.
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You buy them at a restaurant called Tim Hortons.
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It's a very popular restaurant in Canada.
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It's actually more like a cafe than a
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restaurant, although they do serve pizza now.
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So I guess it's a little bit of both.
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Cafe in the morning, restaurant
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in the afternoon and evening.
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Timbits are actually little bite sized donuts.
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I bought two kinds.
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I bought chocolate and sour cream glazed.
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They are bite sized and in some
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places they might call them donut holes.
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I don't think they're actually made from the
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part of the donut that they cut out.
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Maybe they are, but these are called timbits.
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They're really yummy.
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They're great for sharing.
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Often if I'm going to buy donuts for a
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group of people, I will buy timbits because it's
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also nice because the portion size is very small.
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So if you don't want to eat a
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whole donut, you just eat a timbit.
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Mmm.
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That is some chocolatey goodness. Mmm.
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Yummy.
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Well, thank you so much
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for watching this English lesson.
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I hope you learned a few words
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along the way while I was snacking.
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That will help you in your next English conversation.
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And if you're worried that I'm going to
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eat all these snacks myself, don't worry.
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I still have children that live at home.
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I'm sure they will be really happy when they
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get home from school to see all these snacks.
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