Reclamação engraçada de uma pizza muito ruim

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B1 Portuguese listening practice · Brazilian Portuguese · Curated for intermediate learners

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What is “catupiry”?

catupiry
A Brazilian processed cream-cheese brand turned generic, and the country’s signature pizza topping

Catupiry is a Brazilian creamy cheese brand founded in 1911 in Lambari, Minas Gerais. The brand became so popular that catupiry is now used almost generically in Brazil to mean any soft, mild, slightly tangy cream cheese. Its most iconic use is on pizza: frango com catupiry (“chicken with catupiry”) is one of Brazil’s signature pizza toppings, found in pizzerias and supermarkets across the country and almost nowhere else in the world.

In this clip, a man complains about a pizza he ordered: “Pô, é de frango com catupiry” (“It’s chicken with catupiry”), then announces it’s so bad he’d rather eat plain bread with egg. The brand is cultural shorthand: mention it and any Brazilian pictures the same warm, gooey topping.

Vocabulary frequency

How common is the vocabulary in this B1 Portuguese listening practice listening practice?

81.6%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common Portuguese words
Based on this reel’s transcript, most of the vocabulary is high-frequency, everyday Portuguese.

General Portuguese frequency

68.4%
Top 1,000
81.6%
Top 2,000
93.4%
Top 5,000

Spoken Portuguese frequency

77.5%
Top 1,000
85.9%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000

Words above this video’s level

Quick glosses for vocabulary that goes beyond this video’s B1 level.

catupiry
2×
Rare / outside top 5,000
cream cheese (Brazilian)

Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · SUBTLEX-PT-BR 2012 (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.

★Where you’ll hear this
  • ▸In Brazilian pizzeria menus and food delivery apps (iFood, Rappi)
  • ▸In Brazilian sitcoms and family dinner scenes
  • ▸In Brazilian Friday-night family pizza-ordering rituals
  • ▸In Brazilian food YouTube and TikTok (Rita Lobo, Henrique Fogaça)
  • ▸In Brazilian cookbooks and pizza-making tutorials

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