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you're supposed to chew 30 times, but who has time for that
They say that's how the inventor of the machine gun had his eureka!
Expound please.
It hurts when i shit corn but it won't stop me from eating it. real good shit.
Because the undigested corn kernel husks are filled with poop.
But like why did they fill up all plump and not just be like a deflated balloon.
Farts blow open the empty kernels like a plastic bag in the wind, then the poop gets in them
Finally someone with a science based explanation
Likely because of the pressure that experienced when the feces mines through the colon.
Sorry buddy but swim underwater with a deflated balloon and you get a deflated balloon... Not a poopflated kernel.
Balloons are elastic. This would be more like a plastic bag. Plus, there's more than water in poop, or there should be unless you're having a really bad time.
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Most people dont chew more than 2-3 times so its kinda expected that stuff goes down unchewed
Disclaimer, I have dysphagia, so this isn't meant to be the average person's experience, but... I was eating when I read this and counted how many times I chewed when I took a bite until I felt comfortable swallowing and it was 47. You're telling me normal people can chew as low as 2 times? Astounding.
I'm in the zero to ten camp for most foods, but right there with you at 47 for fatty meat of any kind. It feels disgusting in my mouth and to swallow it without gagging I need to basically cut it up with my incisors into smaller and smaller pieces until the texture disappears.
There's a Calvin & Hobbes strip that would apply perfectly here, but I can't find it. It features them discussing how many times it's appropriate to chew food and the punch line is "maybe marshmallows are the exception." Unfortunately, I couldn't find that, so here's the closest I could:
I mean it depends on what you eat ofcourse. Its just a linear change between soup(0) and crackers(idk maybe 10).
Like a mouthful Spaghetti doesnt need too much like maybe 4-5 times for me, but i have seen plenty of people who almost swallow pasta unchewed. Something like meat or carrots or whatever needs some more to get it to a small enough size to swallow and it just keeps going up with size, hardness and dryness.
i think i generally chew maybe.. 6-10 times? but depending on the food i can either chew a lot more or a lot less, soft foods like well-boiled spaghetti just don't really make sense to our brains and so we don't chew properly.
Is this bad? Maybe I have it because I'm similar.
Fortunately, I think you'd probably notice if you did. Makes it hella hard to swallow stuff unless you pulverize it to a paste. In my case, some days I can't even swallow things as simple as applesauce and have to just drink high calorie liquids.
Edit: After seeing the rest of your comments in this thread... Yeah, sounds like dysphagia. Dysphagia is a symptom though, not the condition itself. If you've got it, something deeper is wrong. In my case it's likely nerve damage and allergies together.
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