1. What type of bread do you eat?

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Tina: Yes, I love bread. I probably have it, maybe, maybe once a day or every other day. And I'm videoing this in my local supermarket, and as you can see, lots and lots of types of bread. But very famous for the UK – oh, that's going to be really wobbly – is that one. White bread. White sliced toast bread.

Joanna: OK … I like bread and I like eating lots of different types of bread. This is a coca, which is a typical bread from Catalunya. And here I've cut it open and I've made pa tomaquet, which is a typical Catalan bread. And you slice your bread, you rub the tomato that you cut this way, cut it like that, rub, rub, rub, rub, rub. Then you take the olive oil, and this has got a drizzle of olive oil, salt and there we are, pa tomaquet. And one piece is missing because the person filming this is already eating it!

Jo: I don't eat bread every day, but I probably eat it about four or five times a week. One of my favourite types of bread is a bagel. I've got one here. And depending on what meal I'm eating, I also like things like pita bread or naan bread. And I live in France, so of course the baguette is … I eat that quite often. So yeah, in France the baguette is really popular. People eat it probably with most meals. And in every neighbourhood, every village, you can find a bakery to buy your baguette.

Jonathan: Yes, I eat bread quite a lot, probably four or five times a week, maybe more, but I try to have a range of carbs. So I have some bread, some rice, some pasta. I normally have brown bread, as I heard that's the healthiest type. I like, er, wholemeal, wheat bread. I live in Hong Kong. It's quite a big city and a very international city, with shops selling all different kinds of things, including bread. There are so many different kinds. Some are sweet, some are salted. You can buy whole loaves of bread. You can buy single buns. Yeah, you can really buy all different kinds of bread here.

There are so many different types of bread in the world, and for many people it's a really important part of their daily diet. In this video some people from different countries tell us whether they often eat bread, what type they eat and what types of bread are popular in their country.

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Do you often eat bread?
What type of bread do you eat?
Tell us about the type of bread that's eaten in the country where you live.
If you don't eat bread, what other carbohydrate staples do you eat (for example, rice or pasta)?

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Hi adeeetbgs,
Thanks for sharing your comment - I enjoyed listening to it. I'm really interested to hear about different food cultures around the world, and that you mainly eat rice as a staple rather than bread.

I hope you enjoyed the topic, and that you'll come back to the Learning hub next time!

Best wishes,

Jo (LearnEnglish team)

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The above link is my speaking about bread.

I normally eat bread every day, I eat feno for lunch and dinner, I adore cheese with eggs sandwiches, feno is like the French bread "Baguette" thin but short brown bread which is easy to open into halves and spread cheese in it. In my country Egypt people normally eat "Baladi" it is medium-size, round, brown bread depending on what meals they are eating sometimes they rice or pasta.