Go off – when fruit goes off
To go bad/ to go rotten (fruit/veg) / to spoil (US)
Sell-by-dates
To be out of (sell-by-) date – date by which the shops should sell an item (perishable item = dairy/ meat)
Use-by-date = the date by which the consumer should use/ eat a perishable item
Left-overs (n) = food which is uneaten after a meal
Rationing: receive a small portion of staple food (rice/ bread)
Rubbish dump (landfill)
Cultivating the land – poor quality soil / barren land (difficult to grow anything)
To harvest : to gather crops and produce
To suffer from a bad harvest (a failed harvest)
Pickle (v) vegetables - to preserve them
Cellar/ basement : pantry = to store food in a cold environment
Plough /ow/
Stalk / (seeds)/ grains = rice/ wheat/ barley/ malt
(mills = building/ organisation which processes grains)
A skip (n) : an industrial waste bin
Renovate
Penalised
Homeless person/ tramp
Soup kitchens – a place where homeless people can go to receive free food
Dumpster (USA) = a skip (UK)
A dumpster diver = a person who scavenges food from skips/ restaurant waste to eat
People are obsessed with cleanliness – don’t want to touch their food
“it’s the nature of the beast” – it’s a side-effect/ a situation which can’t be changed easily
Big business processes food – packages = profit
To curdle – milk gone bad
Mouldy (adj) sour (adj)
The cheese has gone off – that’s gone off
To take out – to take a doggy bag
Contaminated
Packaged – sealed
The biggest culprits are the supermarkets
Culprit = “wrong doer”/ things or person most responsible for a bad action
A thorny issue – difficult to resolve
A sticky issue (inf)
Staple:
1) Staple (adj) – basic or minimum requirement (often to live) eg a staple food (rice/ potatoes)
2) A staple/ to staple: to join paper by a small metal clip. A stapler = tool to join papers
Stomach stapling – a gastric band
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