Using a lambda expression versus a private method

Question

I read an answer to a question on Stack Overflow that contained the following suggested code:

Action logAndEat = ex => 
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Answer 1

I guess you could think of the lambda expression in this example as being a little bit like Pascal's nested functions, in that it's code that can only be executed by the method it's declared in.

A private method could be called from any method in the same class, while a lambda like this is local to the current method and is therefore explicitly only used in that context.

That's really the only advantage I can think of - being explicit in terms of expected usage.