2024-03-04
31 分钟You've seen it, right? The long cereal aisles in a U.S. supermarket? Crammed from top to bottom with colorful boxes? I bet you have. Cereal arouses a sense of nostalgia in a lot of the Americans that I know; it brings about memories of childhood, simpler times, family breakfasts. It's a wonderful topic of conversation that you can have with native speakers. Ask them: What was your favorite cereal when you were a child? You'll see their eyes light up. Then maybe you can share something that you learned in today's lesson!Premium Content: Season 4 (Episodes 150 - 200) = Each episode includes a quiz, the PDF transcript (the text of the audio) with definitions of challenging words and the mp3 file. All Premium Content for Seasons 1, 2 and 3 (Episodes 001 - 150) Raisin Bran Muffins: 1/2 cup vegetable oil (or canola) 2 cups buttermilk (I use low-fat) 2 eggs 2 cups flour 4 cups Raisin Bran cereal 1 cup sugar 1.5 teaspoons baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup raisins 2 teaspoons cinnamon 1 teaspoon all spice Optional Topping: 1/2 cup chopped pecans (small) Heat oven to 400 degrees. Mix all of the muffin ingredients in order. Let mixture sit for 10 minutes, so that the cereal softens. Bake in a muffin tin at 400 degrees for 14-18 minutes (depending on the color and size of your muffin tin.) I like the pecans to develop a very toasty flavor, so I generally cook them closer to 18 minutes. Let cool at least 10 minutes. Top with butter and/or honey. Each batch makes about 18 muffins. My family doubles it and it makes 36 at a time! We freeze them. Then, in the morning, we microwave each muffin for 40 seconds, slice in half and spread a bit of butter on each side. :) Enjoy! Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Hi everybody.
My name is Shawna and this is the american English podcast.
My goal here is to teach you the English spoken in the United States through common expressions, pronunciation tips, and interesting cultural snippets or stories.
I hope to keep this fun, useful, and interesting.
Let's do it.
Welcome back to the second part of episode number 160, how cereal became the number one breakfast food in the US.
I normally say that I'm excited to talk about the different cultural aspects in the second part of expression episodes, but this one really hits home.
Cereal arouses a sense of nostalgia in a lot of the Americans that I know.
It brings about memories of childhood, simpler times, family breakfast.
It's a wonderful topic of conversation that you can have with native speakers.
Ask them what was your favorite cereal when you were a child?
And then maybe you can share something that you learned in today's lesson.
Now, this is a short story with a lot of useful vocabulary.
Take notes if you need, or be sure to sign up to premium content.
You'll find the link for that in the episode notes.
We're going to start with a bit of vocabulary.
The word serial has its roots in Latin.
It comes from the word cerealis, which is derived from ceres, the name of the ancient roman goddess of agriculture and grain crops.
Now, when the word cereal entered the english language in the 18 hundreds, it was used to talk about any type of edible grain, from rice to barley, oats, and more.
Today, cereal is widely used to refer to a variety of breakfast foods that are made from processed grains.