6 Minute English / Eating 50-year-old stew

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Hello. This is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm Phil.

And I'm Beth.

Most people have eaten some unusual food at least once in their life. What's the most unusual thing you've ever eaten, Beth?

Oh, I ate camel in Australia, and I really didn't like it, to be honest. What about you?

I ate caiman in Northern Argentina, and it was delicious!

Oh, OK. Good!

Well, in this programme we'll be discussing some very unusual food known as 'forever food' dishes, like stews and soups, which can be kept going day after day, year after year. We'll also be learning some useful new vocabulary, all of which you can download, along with a worksheet for this programme, at our website, bbclearningenglish.com.

But let's get back to forever food, and a Bangkok restaurant called, Wattana Panich, that's famous for a soup which has been cooking for over 50 years! Here's radio listener, David Shirley, who called BBC World Service programme, The Food Chain, after tasting the soup himself:

David Shirley I had never heard of a perpetual stew before, but the first time I'd ever heard about it was when I was in Bangkok. I found a stew that had been simmering for fifty years.