Some brands of breakfast cereal contain a lot of sugar.

“We Norwegians are great readers,” Mrs. Nygren took the opportunity to remark. “And great yakkers,” Mr. Söderblad muttered.

“Foodie” has now pretty much everywhere replaced “gourmet”, perhaps because the latter more strongly evokes privilege and a snobbish claim to uncommon sensory discrimination—even though those qualities are rampant among the “foodies” themselves.

As soon as things had got thus far, I began to feel rather jerran, as the blacks say, (i.e. timorous).