Reports on Forbidden Food

I need to find a way of combining this blog and my homework, and since I've just finished reading one set of written reports on Forbidden Food, I'll focus on that.  On Monday in both sections of ESL 142, we'll sit in a big circle so students can answer follow-up questions on their interviews. 

Of course there were those who missed the stipulation that they interview a native speaker of English and chose someone from another ESL class. 

There was also the often-late student who tought his written report should be a written transcription of what he said in his telephone message, so it begins with "Hi, this is SSSSS.  My last name is Zhou, Z as zombie, " etc.

Some students write in careless English:  "He never got a food posing.  He don't have best memorable male but he has treble memorable meal."

There are also some ethnic slurs or gross generalizations.  An interviewee who once found a cockroach under the chicken leg in a Chinese restaurant "vomited onthe plate while everybody was eating.  So since that day he never was at Chinese restaurant.  Even now he calls the whole Chinese retaurant cockroach restaurant."  (I'd like to know how that particular Chinese restaurant responded--maybe not with a coupon for a later meal.)

One interviewee won't eat Intestine "Because of high cholesterol and growsy."  My follow up questions will include "What's growsy?"

Among the favoirte restaurants are Gary Danko,Jindu,

Instead of telling the student about his best memory of a meal, one interviewee told the wos:  Eatin with his girlfiren's parents.  That was the first time they me, so he ws nervous and didn't say anything during the meal.

One student, interviewing someone allergic to sea food, ended by saying, "I tried to clam my nervous and I did."  But should I really tell him to be careful about his spelling because a clam is a seafood, and his intervieweee is allergic?

One student interviewed his doctor, who seemed quite complacent aobut the antibiotics put in meat.  This doctor described an Indonesian fruit "that smells like old socks, which is so stinky that is not allowed in airports in Singapore."

One question was "Have you heard about all the good food that Americans throw away?"  One interviewee said, "No, but Americans they usually throw things away."  The Vietnamese interviewee commented "It was surprising because I have seen some Americans stored a mountain of things in their house although some of their things were seldom or nee used."

So now I must go and take a look at the moutain of things I have been storing.