The Chewing Movement
- "British Prime Minister, William Gladstone stated that to assure proper digestion he chewed each bite of food 32 times, once for each tooth. American businessman Horace Fletcher took this advice to the extreme and chewed food until it dissolved in his mouth...[he]claimed that a shallot had once required 720 chews. Although mistaken in his belief that digestion took place in the back of he throat, Fletcher produced remarkably odour-free stools, which he distributed freely by mail."
Pilcher, J.M. (2000) Food Fads. Cambridge World History of Food. Cambridge University Press. UK.
How would you like to have a meal with one of these guys?
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