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the_original_Retro t1_je37snx wrote

It's not a "I am completed with this package here you go there next stage knock yourself out" process.

It's a "chemicals are removed and passed on in various orders depending on how filled the digestive process already is" process.

You're not a first-in-first-out organism. Further, you'r e also not a fastest-in-fastest-through organism.

If your innards are not otherwise busy, you process liquid foodstuffs far faster than complex organic foodstuffs like high-fibre proteins. But that processing takes time for the more filling types of food you eat, at least in most cases. Pack your stomach with wagyu-steak fats and proteins, and it'll take a while for everything to sort itself out even if you gorf down an ice cream sundae afterwards.

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icecream_truck t1_je3ack7 wrote

Is “gorf” synonymous with “snarf”, or is there a subtle difference in meaning/usage?

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xask9 t1_je3bx5g wrote

Gorf is after a filling meal snarf is during.

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EkbyBjarnum t1_je4ni49 wrote

Technically it's only gorf if it comes from the Gorf region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling snarf

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knightopusdei t1_je586pi wrote

Mash is the process of shoveling food stuff into your face hole. Usually done as fast as possible.

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Water-Cookies OP t1_je5bbm7 wrote

So, when you chug water during your meal, the stomach "knows" to pass that on faster, even though it's now mixing with the chyme and potentially creating a diluted concoction?

It makes sense that liquids are processed faster, it must just have to do with receptors in the stomach recognizing that there is water present and to just let it pass, for lack of a better analogy.

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the_original_Retro t1_je5ex3m wrote

This is where my knowledge fails, but I think it's safe to say that different chemical and filtration processes activate between different classes of in-taken nutrients including water, and these are handled by different organs in the body.

The intestines do much of the work of digestion for more complex molecules, giving those molecules time to be broken down into protein building blocks, and simplifying starches into sugars. But if you drink a couple big glasses of water, most of that water never reaches the full path through them.

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