Simultaneously Eating and Drinking

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Some food faddists have inveighed against accompanying solid food with a beverage, alleging it dilutes the acids and enzymes secreted for digestion. Well, food faddists get called uncomplimentary things for a reason, don't they?

Clearly none of them had trouble getting a cold hardboiled egg down at a picnic lunch when they were kids... those things can hang up in a youngster's throat and really need a swig of something to ease the passage.

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Some food faddists have inveighed against accompanying solid food with a beverage, alleging it dilutes the acids and enzymes secreted for digestion. Well, food faddists get called uncomplimentary things for a reason, don't they?

Clearly none of them had trouble getting a cold hardboiled egg down at a picnic lunch when they were kids... those things can hang up in a youngster's throat and really need a swig of something to ease the passage.

Some of my friends are sold on that nuttiness.
From, "It's BAD for you!" to "It makes you gain weight". I have yet to get them to explain how the latter works.
When I take a drink during a pause in a meal one of them will, inevitably, bring it up as if they, and four others, have not told me this fourteen times each... WHY!?
The food stays in your stomach while th liquid moves on, why can't these people see this, why... WHY?!