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    Lesson #475

    Hard seltzer taste testFood
    June 9, 2022

    Hard seltzer taste test: we five popular seltzers

    In Tuesday’s lesson, we talked about how hard seltzers have become one of the most popular alcoholic beverages in the US in just the last few years. Today, we’re revealing the results of our hard seltzer blind taste test. We sampled three brands and five flavors, and let’s just say it didn’t go as we thought it would. Plus, learn what it means to “take the plunge.”

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    Exercises for Lesson 475

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    Not even

    Stress that something is 100 percent true with 'not even'
    Lingo

    Peg

    To “peg” someone or something as something else is to believe or say that it has a particular type of character, or that a situation has particular qualities.
    Expression

    Take the plunge

    To “take the plunge” is to do something after a period of hesitation or uncertainty.

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