Mastication

I spoke with a few contestants, and like to think my frequent phone calls to IFOCE chair George Shea in 2006 led to him bill that year's Nathan's Hot Dog Contest as, "The Mount Sinai of Mastication" -- but then again, he also dubbed it the Madison Square Garden of Gorging, and finally, the battleground where God and Lucifer fight for men's souls such gifted hyperbole cannot be ascribed to any single influence.

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I spoke with a few contestants, and like to think my frequent phone calls to IFOCE chair George Shea in 2006 led to him bill that year's Nathan's Hot Dog Contest as, "The Mount Sinai of Mastication" -- but then again, he also dubbed it the Madison Square Garden of Gorging, and finally, the battleground where God and Lucifer fight for men's souls such gifted hyperbole cannot be ascribed to any single influence.

Playin' with your food like it's some kind of game 2008

Mastication and insalivation, which are largely mechanical, prepare the food for certain chemical processes by which it is dissolved.

Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters

Mastication is an important part of digestion, and when foods are not thoroughly masticated, additional work is required of the stomach, which is usually an overworked organ because of doing the work of the mouth as well.

Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value Harry Snyder

Mastication means a thorough breaking up of the food into the smallest particles, and insalivation means the mixing of the small particles with the saliva.

No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes Rupert H. Wheldon

* — Mastication prepares the food for the digestive processes which follow.

Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools Francis M. Walters

Mastication also stimulates the flow of the gastric juice, and this flow is greater if we enjoy what we eat.

The Prospective Mother, a Handbook for Women During Pregnancy 1912

Mastication, required by hard foods, 41; value of thorough, and evils of insufficient, 44-47;

How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science Eugene Lyman Fisk 1907

Mastication is impossible, and the speech is indistinct.

Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

Mastication, and dilutes it, cannot be deny'd to be an admirable

The Natural History of Chocolate Being a Distinct and Particular Account of the Cocoa-Tree, its Growth and Culture, and the Preparation, Excellent Properties, and Medicinal Vertues of its Fruit D. Qu��lus 1742