Chatterbox #335 – Let’s talk taste

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🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this Chatterbox episode, Andrew and Anna talk about taste. They discuss how our preferences for food and drinks develop from childhood to adulthood, sharing personal stories about acquired tastes and interesting foods from their home countries. The conversation then shifts to personal preferences in music, fashion, films, and coffee, with both hosts talking about how their tastes have evolved over time. They end by questioning if having similar tastes is important for friendships and what our preferences reveal about who we are.

How this episode will improve your English:

* Vocabulary: Learn useful adjectives to describe taste preferences like "refined," "sophisticated," "impeccable," "gaudy," "questionable," and "tacky."
* Listening: Build your listening skills by following a natural, friendly conversation about physical taste and personal preferences.
* Speaking: Discuss your own taste in food, music, movies, and fashion on our Discord server and in our weekly speaking classes.
* Culture: Discover how taste differs across cultures and how it connects to identity and personality.
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0:00.0	Hey there, Anna, I've got a question here for you right off the start of this episode.
0:05.7	And it is, what would your Spotify playlist?
0:11.0	Like maybe if you went into your Spotify and looked at your most recently played songs,
0:15.3	what would that playlist tell us about you?
0:18.2	Actually, I have to say at the moment, luckily, maybe this would have always be the
0:22.7	same answer, but I think at the moment I've got a load of quiet moment playlists, like lots of
0:29.9	chill stuff and meditation moments and things like that. So I guess it would say that I'm a very
0:35.1	chilled or relaxed person, but actually it's kind of the opposite. It's more that would say that I'm a very chilled or relaxed person. But actually, it's kind of the
0:38.5	opposite. It's more that I need that type of music to chill me out sometimes. After the end of the day,
0:44.8	I just need something relaxing to put on. So that is actually my most recently played. I've got to be
0:52.2	honest. What about you, Andrew? I guess my playlist is really
0:56.4	all over the place. You know, I have this mega mix where just any time I come across a cool
1:02.6	song, then I add it to my mega mix playlist. And it just covers literally all genres from world
1:10.4	music to heavy metal to K-pop.
1:12.8	Like, it's all on there. So I think I would come across as having rather eclectic taste.
1:20.3	And so, Anna, the reason why I'm asking you this question here is because we are going to talk
1:25.8	all about taste in today's chatterbox episode.
1:29.6	For those of you who don't know, this is kind of a series that Anna and I have been doing
1:34.4	over the last little while where we're talking about the senses. We started off by talking
1:39.1	about smells, specifically sense in the office, but we also talked about feeling and textures and touch.
1:49.1	And now here we are talking about taste.
1:52.1	And we're going to break this episode down into several parts.
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