ASL-17-FOOD-2 Flashcards
(44 cards)
BANANA
BANANA: Show the peeling of a banana.
Note: You will see various handshapes for the dominant hand: “modified O,” “F,” or even an “X.”
BEER
NOTE: This sign is very, very similar to the sign for “BROWN.”
Generally brown is once.
Generally beer is twice.
BREAKFAST
There are a couple of different ways to sign “breakfast.”
A popular sign for “breakfast” is a combination of “EAT and MORNING.”
Initialized version uses a very small rotational motion. Somewhat like eating a bowl of soup that you are holding a few inches away from your mouth. I don’t actually touch my lips or mouth while making this sign. There is a variation of this sign that taps the chin and lips with the index finger side of the right “b-hand.”
CUP
The sign for “cup” is made by forming your right hand into the letter “c.” Place your right hand into your uplifted left palm. Some people use a very small repeated movement. This sign can also be used to mean “can” as in a container of food.
Notes:
Suppose, for some reason, you needed to differentiate between a cup, a glass, and a bottle. You could use a variation of “cup” that shows a larger shape.
CUP: Uses a small double motion that starts two inches off the palm, touches the palm, comes up an inch then touches again.
CAN: The CUP sign can be used for the noun “CAN” as in “a can of beans.”
GLASS: Uses a larger motion that starts on the palm, moves up about 3 and a half inches off the palm.
DINNER
Dinner has two forms.
A compound form DINNER: [EAT+NIGHT]
Initialized form. DINNER: [initialized]
This form can either use a small rotational movement (like slurping soup from a bowl close to your mouth), or a “stuffing your mouth with food” movement that taps the lips with the fingertips of the thumb, middle, ring, and pinkie fingers.
FRENCH FRIES
The movement is sort of like popping two balloons with a needle. It also looks a lot like the sign for the number “99.” The second movement happens further to the outside of your signing space. (Which is to say the movement goes from in to out, not from out to in. In other words if you were indeed popping two balloon that were side by side, you’d pop the one on the left first then pop the one on the right.)
More casual version is same motion with palm face down
GRAPES
The dominant hand makes contact, then lifts off and moves an inch or two then makes contact again.
Notes: You may see GRAPES signed with three movements instead of two. In casual everyday signing, two movements being used more often than three. However, if you were to ask someone how to sign GRAPES they might show you the three movement version. Both versions are used and accepted.
KETCHUP or CATSUP
A general version that looks like trying to get ketchup out of a bottle by smacking the upturned bottle twice
LUNCH
There are a few versions of this sign. Two of the most popular are:
1. A compound version (EAT + NOON)
2. An initialized version, (“L” handshape using the movement and position of “EAT.”)
MAYONNAISE
Just spell “M-A-Y-O”
Mayonnaise variations:
- Some people use an “M” handshape to smear imagined mayonnaise onto their palm.
- Some people sign “WHITE+SREAD.”
Recommend sticking with the fingerspelled version: MAYO.
MUSTARD
Signing notes:
This sign is generally spelled by adult Deaf native signers.
PANCAKE
Memory aid: This sign is looks like you are flipping a pancake.
Note: There is an initialized version of this sign that uses the tip of the middle finger of the right “p” hand to draw a pancake sized circle about a half an inch above the surface of the left flat hand. (Recommend stick with the pancake flipping version above.)
PEPPER
Shake an “F” handshape twice downward.
Notes:
To sign GREEN-PEPPER: Sign “GREEN” then spell P-E-P-P-E-R.
To sign HOT-PEPPER: Sign HOT then spell P-E-P-P-E-R.
PICKLE
pickle” uses a “K” handshape at the corner of the chin. Twist it twice.
Notes:
If you put the “P” hand on your cheek (instead of at the side of your chin) it will mean one of the versions of “pineapple.”
PINEAPPLE
The sign for “pineapple” has a many versions.
1 S and modified-L version
2Chiquita advertising campaign version
3 Initialized “apple” version
4chop chop” version
5Hold the “F” hand in front of your eye (as if looking through the hole in the “F”) and twist it twice (as if adjusting a telescope
POP - soda
Form the left hand into an “O.” Bend the middle finger of the right “spread” hand at the large knuckle and stick it (the middle finger) into the left “O.” Then remove the finger and slap your right palm over the hole.
COCA-COLA
DR. PEPPER
PEPSI
ROOTBEER
Most type of soda is fingerspelled these have signs
COCA-COLA-fs -C-O-K-E
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DR. PEPPER
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PEPSI
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ROOTBEER
COCA-COLA -just spell the word “Coke.” There is a very interesting “legacy” version of the sign (see below) but it is very common to see adult native Deaf signers just spell C-O-K-E.
DR PEPPER -Spell D-R, then make a “P” handshape and bounce it in the air twice as if shaking pepper from a jar.
VARIATION: You might also see this sign done by spelling D-R, then using an “F” handshape bouncing twice in the air as if shaking pepper from a jar. The circle of the “F” represents the lid of the pepper shaker.
PEPSI:
Imagine using the tip of your little finger to draw a big “check” mark on your forehead. The sign doesn’t actually touch your forehead though.
ROOTBEER:
To do the sign for rootbeer you just touch an “R” then a “B” to the side of your chin
SALAD
Picture yourself tossing a salad.
SALT
Version 1 (recommended)
SALT: Version 2: version of that sign for “salt” doesn’t flutter the dominant “V” hand fingers. The two fingers stay in a “V” shape and the movement is in the wrist not the knuckles. (The movement of the dominant hand is down, up, down. The non-dominant hand doesn’t move.)
SINK
The word sink has different meanings. You should sign “sink” in a way that matches your meaning.
Often “sink” is just spelled out (S-I-N-K) since it is a relatively short word and it is actually easier (for skilled fingerspellers) to spell “sink” with one hand than to do a two handed sign depicting a sink
SINK (version 2)
Sink as in to become submerged, to descend into liquid, drown
SOAP
This sign looks as if you have some soap on your palm and you are pulling your fingertips back across it twice to develop a lather.
