外卖革命

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六分钟英语。

Six Minute English.

来自bbclearningenglish.com。

From bbclearningenglish.com.

你好。

Hello.

这里是BBC英语学习的六分钟英语。

This is six Minute English from BBC Learning English.

我是尼尔。

I'm Neil.

我是乔治娜。

And I'm Georgina.

我要点些外卖，尼尔。

I'm going to order some takeaway food, Neil.

你想要点什么吗？

Do you want anything?

要不来个披萨、炸鱼薯条，或者印度咖喱？

Maybe a pizza, fish and chips, Indian curry?

在家吃的外卖。

Takeaway food to eat at home.

这主意不错。

That's a great idea.

对。

Yes.

我要一份波奇碗。

I'll have a Poke bowl, please.

那是什么？

What's that?

这听起来可不像普通的外卖。

It doesn't sound like typical takeaway food.

现在确实如此了，乔吉娜。

It is nowadays, Georgina.

过去几年里，像Deliveroo和Just Eat这样的外卖应用爆发式增长，彻底改变了外卖行业。

Over the last few years, the explosion of food delivery apps like Deliveroo and Just Eat has seen a revolution in takeaway food.

现在送到家门口的，可不只是披萨和咖喱了。

Today, it's not just pizza and curries being delivered to people's front door.

世界各地的各种菜肴和风味都能点到了。

There's a wide range of food dishes and styles from all around the world.

疫情期间，咖啡馆和酒吧关门后，越来越多的连锁餐厅转为纯配送模式，为居家隔离的人送餐。

And with cafes and pubs closed during lockdown, more and more food chains and restaurants are switching to delivery only services takeaways to bring meals to people who are isolating.

过去几周，许多外卖公司接到的订单量大幅飙升，因为人们因新冠疫情不得不待在家里。

Over the few weeks, many takeaway companies have seen orders increase dramatically as people find themselves stuck at home due to the coronavirus pandemic.

但大家到底点的是些什么菜呢？

But what are they choosing to eat?

这就是我今天给你的小测验，佐治娜。

That's my quiz question for today, Georgina.

去年，Deliveroo上点得最多的菜是什么？

Last year, what was Deliveroo's most ordered dish?

是 a) 夏威夷波克碗，b) 奶油汉堡，还是 c) 鸡肉卷？

Was it a) Hawaiian Poke Bowls b) Cheeseburgers or c) Chicken Burritos?

我本来以为是鱼和薯条，不过我还是选 b) 奶油汉堡。

I would have thought it was fish and chips, but I'll go with b) cheeseburgers.

好的。

Okay.

我们待会儿再看你说得对不对。

We'll find out later if you were right.

外卖越来越受欢迎，带来了一个叫‘幽灵厨房’的现象。

One consequence of the increasing popularity of takeaways is something called dark kitchens.

和Deliveroo、Just Eat这类连接顾客与本地外卖店的平台不同，这些数字化的幽灵厨房只做外卖生意。

Unlike apps such as Deliveroo and Just Eat, which connect customers to local takeaways, these digital dark kitchens work as just for delivery restaurants.

里面，厨师们在没有服务员、桌椅和顾客的厨房里烹饪，准备出高品质的餐食，直接送到你家。

Inside, chefs cook in kitchens without waiters, tables or diners, preparing high quality dishes ready for delivery straight to your home.

最早的一家暗厨业务Taster，是由厨师安东·苏利耶创办的。2013年，他当时在Deliveroo工作，那会儿公司还很小，只在伦敦运营。

One of the first dark kitchen operations, Taster, was started by chef Anton Soulier, who in 2013 was working for Deliveroo when it was just a tiny company operating only in London.

现在他负责管理12家厨房，为伦敦、巴黎和马德里的顾客提供餐食。

Now he's in charge of 12 kitchens catering for customers in London, Paris and Madrid.

BBC第四电台《食品节目》的希拉·迪伦前往伦敦东区的贝斯纳尔格林，想了解更多情况。

Sheila Dillon of BBC Radio four's The Food Programme went to the Bethnal Green area of East London to find out more.

当你打开Taster的网站时，那些餐厅名字都是虚拟的。

When you go on the Taster website, the restaurant names are virtual.

所有这些餐厅都是由Taster专门设计用于外卖的。

All of them sold as designed for delivery by Taster.

这意味着，所有由专业厨师设计的菜单，都考虑到了配送需求——确保食物送到时还是热的、口感不变，不会因为骑手送餐颠簸而变得一塌糊涂。

What that means is all the menus drawn up by serious chefs are designed to travel well, chosen so they'll be warm, retain their texture and won't look like a dog's dinner when they come off the back of a bike.

说来奇怪，外卖配送本身，已经悄然改变了我们吃的食物。

So strangely, the delivery, the bike, has become a shaper of the foods we eat.

Taster 上的所有餐厅都是虚拟的，只存在于网上，由系统设计得看起来像真餐厅一样。

All the restaurants on Taster are virtual, existing online and created by computers to appear like the real thing.

厨师们使用专门设计过的食谱和食材来烹饪，确保食物在长途运输中不会损坏或变质。

Chefs cook the dishes using recipes and ingredients designed to travel well, be transported a long way without being damaged or their quality being spoiled.

这样做的目的，是避免外卖送到时变得一团糟——这是个口语说法，形容食物看起来乱七八糟、做得太差。

That's to avoid the takeaway food ending up like a dog's dinner an informal way to say something that looks messy or has been very badly done.

通常，外卖会装在盒子里，由骑手从厨房快速送到顾客家里。

Usually, the takeaways are transported in a box on the back of a delivery cyclist who rushes them from the kitchen to the customer's home.

这是一种非常现代的饮食方式，希拉认为它已经深刻影响了我们吃的食物，也就是说，它在很大程度上塑造了食物的形态。

It's a very modern way of eating, which Sheila thinks has become a shaper of the foods we eat, meaning that it has a strong influence on how a situation develops.

不过，也有人担心，随着外卖和专做配送的餐饮越来越多，人们正在丧失基本的烹饪能力。

However, some are worried that the increase in takeaways and delivery only food means people are losing basic cooking skills.

这一点，Taster 的老板安东也注意到了。

It's something that taster boss, Anton, has noted too.

有一个明显的趋势是，也许再过二三十年，人们家里就不再需要厨房了。

There is a strong underlying trend that maybe, you know, in in twenty, thirty years, people won't have kitchens.

这在美国已经发生了，比如。

And it's already happening in The US, for example.

我其实特别喜欢做饭，这算是我的一个爱好，但平时就周末偶尔做一做，我觉得以后它可能真会变成一种周末消遣。

I'm, I love cooking, it's one of my passion, but I'm really doing it occasionally on Sundays and everything and I think it's going to almost become a weekend hobby.

人们选择点外卖而不是在家做饭，已经成了一种深层趋势。

People choosing to eat takeaways instead of cooking at home has become an underlying trend.

这是一种真实存在但不太显眼的公众行为变化。

A general development in how people behave which is real but not immediately obvious.

未来，在家做饭可能会从日常必需，变成一种业余爱好——也就是空闲时为了放松和享受而做的事。

And in the future, cooking at home may even switch from being a daily necessity to a hobby an activity someone does in their spare time for pleasure or relaxation.

我偶尔也挺享受点个外卖，但说实话，没了厨房我可真活不了，尼尔。

I do enjoy tucking into a takeaway sometimes, but personally I couldn't survive without my kitchen, Neil.

那没了Deliveroo，你能活吗？

But could you survive without Deliveroo?

别忘了，今天的小测验里我问过你们，Deliveroo上点得最多的是哪道菜？

Remember in today's quiz question, I asked you what Deliveroo's most ordered dish was?

我说的是B选项，芝士汉堡。

I said b, cheeseburgers.

但正确答案是A，夏威夷风味波凯碗，一种夏威夷风格的寿司。

But the correct answer was a, Hawaiian poke bowls, a Hawaiian version of sushi.

这种菜，我在家还真做不出来。

Now that's something I couldn't cook at home.

今天我们聊了外卖和送餐服务的变革，近年来这已经成为一种潜移默化的趋势，反映了人们生活方式——或者说饮食方式——的转变。

Today, we've been discussing the revolution in takeaways and home delivered food, which in recent years has become an underlying trend, a general development in how people behave, or in this case, eat.

另一个趋势是出现了虚拟餐厅，也就是网上存在的餐饮品牌，看起来跟真餐厅一模一样，但实际上只存在于线上。

Another trend has been the creation of virtual restaurants online restaurants which look like the real thing, but exist only on the internet.

厨师们会设计一些容易运输、长途配送也不会变质或损坏的菜品。

Chefs create dishes using ingredients which travel well, can be transported a long way without being damaged or spoiled.

这样顾客就不会收到一塌糊涂的餐食——这是个口语说法，意思是东西做得乱七八糟。

That's so the customer doesn't end up with a dog's dinner an informal expression meaning something messy or badly done.

像用自行车配送高品质餐厅餐食这样的新变化，正在塑造现代饮食方式，对饮食趋势产生着深远影响。

Recent developments like high quality restaurant meals being delivered by bike are shapers of modern eating things that have a strong influence on how a situation develops.

这意味着，下厨可能很快就会变成一种爱好，一种闲暇时为了放松和享受而做的事。

All of which means that cooking may soon become just a hobby an activity someone does in their spare time for pleasure or relaxation.

就像骑自行车一样。

For example, cycling.

或者学英语。

Or learning English.

今天的时间就到这里了。

That's all we have time for today.

祝你烹饪愉快，我们下次再见。

Happy cooking and goodbye for now.

再见。

Bye.

六。

Six

BBC出品的《分钟英语》。

Minute English from the BBC.