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Chewing Quotes

"Nature will castigate those who don't masticate."

Horace (chew your food 32 times) Fletcher
(1849-1919)

“Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.”

Dave Barry, Miami Herald Columnist

“Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights of steady eating. The mere contemplation of this fact is upsetting enough.”

M.F.K. Fisher (1908-1992) 'Serve It Forth' (1937)

“the drowsy forgetful evil, to use it both inwardly and outwardly, to rub the nostrils, forehead and temples, to warm and quicken the spirits . . . the decoction of the seeds ... resists the malignity of mushrooms.... Being chewed in the mouth it oftentimes helps the tooth-ache. It is also used to help the falling off the hair. The seed bruised, mixed with honey, and applied, or made up with wax, takes away the marks and black and blue spots of bruises or the like . . . it helps also the crick in the neck...." (mustard)

'A Physicall Directory' by Nicholas Culpepper