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the controlled demolition you perform thirty thousand times a day without applause
means To grind or crush food between your teeth before swallowing.
from From Old English 'ceowan,' a word for grinding with the teeth, with cousins across the Germanic languages — German 'kauen,' Dutch 'kauwen.' Linguists trace it back to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning to grind or crush, the same deep ancestral idea that gives us 'jaw' in some accounts. It has been doing this same patient labor in English mouths for well over a thousand years.
- muscle force
- jaw muscles can clamp at over 200 pounds
- cow overtime
- cows chew roughly eight hours daily
- gum trap
- swallowed gum passes through in days, not years
- brain link
- chewing boosts alertness and blood flow
- first step
- digestion begins before food leaves your mouth
betel quid chewing — 600 million people in south asia chew areca nut, lime, and betel leaf daily
copenhagen chewing tobacco — leading moist snuff brand in us since 1822, $2 billion annual sales
mentos gum chewing — mentos sold 1 billion pieces globally in 2023, iconic jaw-clenching chew