tuck into 復習
ラーメンチェーン「幸楽苑」の静岡市清水区の店舗で提供されたラーメンに、人の親指の一部とみられる異物が混入していたことがわかりました。
Waiter ... there's a human finger in my bowl of ramen
SHIZUOKA--Ramen comes with many toppings, but the tip of a finger, nail included, is not usually one of them.
Unless, that is, you were at the Korakuen ramen branch near Shizuoka’s Shimizu Interchange around lunchtime on Sept. 10.
The tip of a human finger, with a bit of nail attached, was found nestled in a bowl of noodles.
A female customer noticed there was something other than pork in the bowl of noodles her child was tucking into and reported it to staff.
The “foreign object” was later inspected by public health center officials. They said it seemed to the tip of a nailed finger about seven to eight millimeters long and one centimeter wide.
The Korakuen headquarters, based in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture, revealed Oct. 12 that a part-time staffer had chopped off the finger tip while cutting “chashu” roasted pork using a meat slicer.
A Korakuen spokesperson said a written explanation of the finger-chopping incident and subsequent contamination of a bowl of noodles had been submitted to Shizuoka city’s public health center.
The company said it would “strive to prevent a recurrence.”
So it seems fingertips are now most certainly off the menu.
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201610130035.html
今回取り上げる表現は、“tuck into”です。“tuck”は「(衣類など)の端を詰め込む、たくし込む」という意味がありますが、今回の記事では違う意味で用いられています。『ウィズダム英和辞典』(第３版、三省堂)を引いたところ、“tuck into A”で「Aをがつがつ食べる」とありました。
Macmillan Dictionaryでは“INFORMAL to eat food with enthusiasm because you like it or because you are hungry”と定義されていました。この定義にもあるように、好きなものを食べる際、おなかが減っていて物を食べる際に用いるようです。(Blue Sky)
