Food-based Opinions! (Conversation Club)

This week the ‘Thinking in English’ Community is talking about food-based opinions!

The debate over pineapple on pizza has raged on for decades and has divided friends and families all over the world, but there are many other food-based debates.

What is your stance on breakfast food after midday? What about table manners? Tea or coffee? What’s your go-to sauce? And how do you like your eggs in the morning?

Here are 10 conversation questions to get you talking about food-based opinions!

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Conversation Questions: Food-Based Opinions

1. Does Pineapple belong on a pizza? Why, why not?

2. Are you a tea person or a coffee person? How do you like your tea / coffee?

3. In your opinion, how should a steak be cooked?

4. What’s your favourite sauce for fries? Ketchup, Mayonnaise, or another sauce?

5. Which is the best source of carbohydrate? Potato, bread, rice, pasta, or something else?

6. What is your favourite way to cook eggs?

7. Is it okay to eat breakfast food for lunch or dinner, or is it just for the mornings?

8. At a restaurant, should you call for the waiter, or wait for them to come to you?

9. What is your most controversial food opinion?

10. “A food’s value is based on how good it tastes.”

—  Homaro Cantu

What do you think of this quote?

Vocabulary List:

• Belong
  • to be in the right place or a suitable place
• Steak
  • a thick, flat piece of meat or fish, especially meat from a cow
• Sauce
  • a thick liquid eaten with food to add flavour
• Source
  • the place something comes from or starts at, or the cause of something
• Carbohydrate
  • one of several substances, such as sugar or starch, that provide the body with energy, or foods containing these substances such as bread, potatoes, pasta, and rice
• Waiter
  • a person whose job is to bring the food to customers at their tables in a restaurant
• Controversial
  • causing disagreement or discussion

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