a terrible death

Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 821: Eating Contaminated Food.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 821. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from beautiful Los Angeles, California.

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How are you doing today? Are you happy? Are you sad? Let's hope you're happy. If not, let's listen to this dialogue and maybe that will make you happy. It's about eating contaminated food, food that has something wrong with it, and there's nothing happier than the subject of contaminated food. Let’s get started!

Rachel: This tastes funny.

Sergey: It’s fine. There’s nothing wrong with it.

Rachel: It tastes like it’s tainted or something. Don’t you detect a funny metallic taste?

Sergey: No, it’s perfectly fine. Just eat it.

Rachel: I swear there’s something off about this food. I’m not eating adulterated food. There’s probably poison in here and we’re both going to die a terrible death.

Sergey: There is nothing poisonous