What the song is about
The singer loves food of every kind. Each verse is about one taste:
sweet things like chocolate,
salty snacks like chips and nuts, a
hot and spicy soup on a freezing day, and
cold ice cream in summer. The chorus lists the tastes and asks for more:
Give me a flavor, and give me a slice!Useful words and expressions
- Tastes: sweet, salty, spicy, bitter, sour
- Textures: soft, sticky, crunchy, crispy
- Food: sugar, honey, chocolate, chips, nuts, cracker, pepper, chili, pastries, vanilla, ice cream
- flavor: how food tastes (British spelling: flavour)
- a slice: a thin, flat piece cut from something, like cake or bread
- I have a sweet tooth: I love sweet food
- it burns just a bit: it feels a little hot in the mouth (spicy food)
- a cool treat: something cold and nice to eat
- an absolute hit: a great success, something everyone loves
- a cracker or two: one or two crackers, a few
- for old and for young: for everyone, whatever their age
- I get to make: I am lucky enough to make (get to + verb = have the chance to)
Grammar
- Present simple for likes and habits: I love the sweet choices, I taste what is bitter.
- Present continuous for what is happening now: Chocolate is melting, Summer is shining.
- need + something + adjective: I need something hot. The adjective comes after something.
- Infinitive of purpose: A bowl of vanilla to conquer the heat (= in order to beat the heat).
- Comparison with as: Cold as the winter (= as cold as the winter).
- Imperative: Give me a flavor, give me a slice.
- Passive infinitive: a story to be told (= a story that someone should tell).
- Shortened relative clause: A spicy red soup cooking deep in the pot (= a soup that is cooking).
Careful: song language
Some lines bend normal English to fit the rhythm or rhyme, so don't copy them:
- Eating ice cream in the middle of night: normal English needs the article: in the middle of the night.
- I cannot deny: deny usually needs an object, so in speech say I can't deny it.
- a piece of a cake: the usual phrase is a piece of cake. Note that a piece of cake is also an idiom meaning "very easy".
