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What’s your favourite comfort food?
Cakes, chocolate and crisps! Comfort food refers to snacks and meals we like to stuff our faces with, even if it’s not always good for us. Neil and Rob talk about comfort food and what actually makes us eat it.

This week's question:
Patrick Bertoletti from the USA holds the Guinness World Record for eating the most cream-filled biscuits in one minute. How many biscuits did he eat? Was it…

a) 2?

b) 7?

c) 15?

Listen to the programme to find out the answer.

Vocabulary
comforter
something that makes us feel relaxed and feel good.

culinary
connected to cooking

associated
made a connection in our mind with something

irrelevant
not important or has no connection with the discussion taking place

nuanced
small but important differences

take comfort
don’t feel so bad (because of something else)

[Cover: Getty Images]

To download the audio and a transcript, go to:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish...

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Category
English Languages
Tags
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