Food Superstitions

B2 – Upper Intermediate

Do you ever believe in bad or good luck? Well, perhaps most of us do and the food culture is no exception as we have different beliefs on how it brings good or bad luck, in other words, superstitions.

Listen to the podcast about food superstitions and learn more.

Discussion Questions:

  1. Are you superstitious? Are most people in your country superstitious?
  2. What are food superstitions you know of?
  3. Can you share any food superstitions you have in your country?
  4. Do you believe in any food superstitions? Why or why not? What are examples of food superstitions do you believe?
  5. Could traditions lead to superstitions? Explain your thoughts.
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2 replies on “Food Superstitions”

Discussion Questions:
1. Are you superstitious? Are most people in your country superstitious?
Well I’m not food superstitious in strict sense, but follow all the habits related with food superstitions, maybe because I raised with this habits in my family and I like to do it, its remembered me my parents..
2. What are food superstitions you know of?
All of the food superstitions related in the video, I think there are common in all Europe: garlic, salt, rice in the weddings, etc..
3. Can you share any food superstitions you have in your country?
For example, if you spill wine of any kind of alcohol, it’s a sign of good luck if you touch it and say “salud” (cheers!) and, in my family at least, we mark with the wine spilled the sign of the cross in our napes.

4. Do you believe in any food superstitions? Why or why not? What are examples of food superstitions do you believe?
As I said before, I really don’t believe in superstitions, not in any kind, but as a custom I do it, because is rooted in my life I was raised with all this parafernalia, and I like it.

5. Could traditions lead to superstitions? Explain your thoughts.

Yes of course, for instance, long time ago, salt was a payment method, so at that time spill the salt was similar to waste your money, and I suppose over the years this become in a tradition and in a kind of superstition.

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Yes of course, for instance, long time ago, salt was a payment method, so at that time spill the salt was similar to waste your money, and I suppose over the years this become in a tradition and in a kind of superstition.

Yes, of course. For instance, salt was a payment method long time ago. So, at that time, spilling the salt was similar to wasting your money, and I suppose that over the years, this became in a tradition and in a kind of superstition.

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