Name: Street food: Why is it becoming popular?
Uploaded: 2018-08-31T04:11:50.000Z
Duration: 6 min 17 s
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Neil: Hello. Welcome to 6 Minute English,

Neil: Now Rob, you like your food, don't you?

Neil: And what do you think of street food?

in London where you can find delicious foods

from all over the world, cooked in front of

Neil: It's quite new though, isn't it - not really

Rob: I guess not, but it seems to be much more

Neil: Well our topic today is street food, but before

we tuck into that, here is today's question.

discovered what they believe is the oldest

remains of bread. How old is this bread? Is it:

a) 18,000 years old, b) 14,000 years old, or

Rob: I don't know - but what I do know is,

guess then. I'll go for c) 5,500 years old.

from the Nationwide Caterers Association.

He is an expert in the business of street

there is most growth in street food. What

Mark Laurie: It's been phenomenal the growth in street

cultural fabric of the country really, or it's

Neil: So where does he say the popularity

Rob: He says that it's in the bigger cities

Neil: So essentially, he's saying it's getting

Rob: Exactly. In fact he says the growth is

Neil: Yes he says that it's really 'taken off'.

'Taken off' is one of those phrasal verbs

In this sense, when something takes off it

Rob: You know, street food isn't really something

you associate with Britain. Perhaps it's the

climate or British food - so street food is

something that we are now getting used to

means that it's no longer something that is

Neil: Well, let's listen again to Mark Laurie

talking about the growth of street food in

growth in street food, it's really taken off,

it's really become quite mainstream. Part

of the cultural fabric of the country really,

or it's beginning to be, certainly in the

What kind of food does he say it's not like?

Mark Laurie: Yeah, it's just really captured

the imagination of the public. It's honest

food, it's authentic food and it's people

that you can trust making it. It's not some

Rob: Well he says that it's not like food

you might get in some pubs. That food, he

Which is food prepared in a microwave oven.

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Street food: Why is it becoming popular?

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