chew food how many times
Posted by Chewy on Thursday, April 26th, 2007
I get a good amount of visits to my blog from Google searches by people wondering how many times you should chew your food.
So I thought I’d write something and appease them:
You choose your food until it’s ready to be swallowed. Really.
They say one of the tricks to consuming less (along with serving yourself smaller portions on small plates) is to thoroughly chew and take the time out to actually taste your food. The extreme of this is called Fletcherism. No, not Felcherism, you pervert. This guy Fletcher came up with a lame diet in which you chew your food until it’s liquid. This pretty much guarantees that your food will be flavorless and it will take you two hours to eat one meal.
Here’s my dieting tip: Eat well and get moderate excerise - for life. If you are one of the many millions of Americans who need a quick fix solution, then you could buy some diet pills that will be recalled by the FDA in six months. Or you could chop off your hands or get your jaw wired shut.
Happy eating!
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Chewing is a key part of eating.
It pisses me off to see people roll out to awesome restaurants and then scarf their damn food down rather than taking the time to taste it.
The point of eating is not to get full, but to taste and enjoy what yer eating! How the fuck you gonna do that by chewing it once and then swallowing it? What are you a fucking bird, forcing huge chunks of shit down yer gullet?
That said, if you are eating shitty food, then by all means, scarf. No need to taste the nasty any longer than you need to…
Comment written by franz on 12:11 pm on the 26th of April, 2007
Franz, that’s because some people don’t get to go out that often and are excited, so they are too busy talking and catching up to pay attention to their food. This also results in delayed ordering and pissing off the wait staff and holding up tables. Anyway, for these people, going out to eat isn’t so much about the food then it is about the experience.
Comment written by Chewy on 6:27 pm on the 26th of April, 2007