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Eating Habits 6

Bertoletti was also the You don’t have to be a guy to
winner at a Florida pickle- be a competitive eater. Model
eating competition. He ate and former Miss Earth New
almost two and a half kilos Zealand, Nela Zisser, managed
of sour pickles in six minutes! to eat a five-foot sandwich in
just over nine minutes in 2015.

Don’t try this at home! Competitive eating has caused several deaths from choking.
Though not as outrageous as some of the other challenges, bobbing for crunchy apples in a bowl of water
is a game often played at Halloween parties. It’s thought to have come from a Roman tradition in which
unmarried people would try to bite an apple - whoever succeeded would be the next to marry.

C. Answer the following questions. E. Discuss the following questions.

1. Which of the challenges: 1. Find the adjectives in exercise B in the
a. involved eating sandwiches made with a text. What do they describe?
particular fruit in them? 2. What food that you eat could each one

b. involved eating something spicy filled with a dairy describe?
product?
c. involved eating a type of vegetable on its own? F. Work in a group of four. Do you agree with
these statements? Why/Why not?
d. might have been the least flavoursome?
e. talks about an ancient tradition? 1. Eating competitions are a waste of food.
2. What is one of the risks of competitive eating? 2. Overeating should not be encouraged.
3. If a local restaurant hosted an eating
D. Work in pairs. How do these numbers relate to the text? competition, I would take part.
4. Competitive eating is dangerous and
Student A Student B should be made illegal.

5, 8, 13, 118, 1983, 2006 2.5, 36, 40, 141, 1978, 2015

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