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A rare cheese

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Are there any foods from your country that are unusual?

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food and drink culture and customs

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Submitted by jyoti Chaudhary on Fri, 13/05/2022 - 12:48 Permalink

Are there any foods from your country that are unusual?

yes in my country people eat a lot of cheese and it contains a lot of fats and there is
many products that is made up of dairy product and I never eat cheese and other fat
food.

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Submitted by Miguelitorico1996 on Fri, 28/01/2022 - 20:10 Permalink

As far as I know there is no unusual food in my country, but there are many dishes
with too much fat, so they are not for the faint of heart.

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Submitted by egyetemista on Fri, 21/01/2022 - 04:53 Permalink

I could not get Task 2 to function correctly: “Video zone: A rare cheese – 2
Put the stages in the correct order.” Perhaps my computer's operating system is not
current enough to support the functionality. I tried several manoeuvres, but was
unable to get the stages (lines) to move around. The multiple-choice questions in
Task 1 worked perfectly.

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Submitted by Peter M. on Fri, 21/01/2022 - 08:18 Permalink

Hello egyetemista,

The task functions in a slightly unintuitive manner. To move the sentences

around, first click on one of them (it should change colour) and then click on a
second. The two sentences will swap places.

I hope that helps!

Peter
The LearnEnglish Team

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Submitted by OlaIELTS on Thu, 16/04/2020 - 16:14 Permalink

No. I don't think so.

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Submitted by Yuri on Wed, 25/03/2020 - 11:07 Permalink

so yummy! I love this special cheese, trust me! the flavor is special, unique one!

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Submitted by Yanylia on Sat, 09/11/2019 - 22:38 Permalink

Hello everyone! I want to tell you a funny story about casu marzu. It was happened
many years ago. My mother-in-law worked for one Italian family. One day she was
clearing out the house and she saw cheese with worms. She decided it was spoiled.
And she throw it away. It turned out, it was the precious Sardinian cheese. My
mother-in-law was very surprised about that weird cheese and Italians were laughing
at the situation. I have been living in this island for some years, but I have not desire
to taste this cheese=) The phrase 'not for the faint of heart' is about me.

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Submitted by anasmtmana on Thu, 12/09/2019 - 08:12 Permalink

Yes. I am from Egypt and we have an old age traditional cheese called "old cheese".
It is very famous. Some times the dense liquid, which is the most important
ingredient is 50 or more years old! The liquid it self is made by mixing a quantity of
old liquid mixed with some curd and a salty component extracted from margarine.
then It is ready for cheese to be put inside the liquid for at least one month to be
ready for eating. the longer the cheese stay inside the liquid, the more quality and
delicacy it will. The miracle is that the cheese could be kept inside the liquid for many
years without being kept by any fridge system and still freash and ready for eat!

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Submitted by Khalido on Wed, 28/08/2019 - 10:31 Permalink

In Morocco we have a similar one called "SMEN"

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Submitted by Tricha on Tue, 20/08/2019 - 02:00 Permalink

yes, an ant that is called Nucu

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