Mary Roach
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Oral processing.
OK.
This is something, I went to this university in the Netherlands where there's not a whole lot of people who go into the field of oral processing.
You have to go to an institute in the Netherlands.
So what it's all about in there is bolus formation.
Bolus.
Bolus formation.
First of all, you're taking your food apart.
You're grinding it up, taking it apart.
And then you need to reassemble it in the swallowable state, which is a cylindrical bolus, which is one of my favorite words.
There's a certain amount of intraoral bolus rolling that goes on.
The tongue.
The wonderful tongue.
The cheeks.
If you try to think about it, if you try to pay attention, it's very, very... I tried, because this is what I was doing for two years.
I was trying to pay attention to my bolus formation.
It's very hard, because you get a little creeped out.
Why do you think they do hot dogs?
Hot dog eating conscious.
The competitive eaters, it's always the bowl is shaped.