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[โ€“] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

You could try chewing first?

No, seriously. That shit is dangerous. Food "slowing down" in your digestive system is a shit way to describe narrowly avoiding choking yourself to death.

Ain't nothing so important that you literally make yourself "late" forever. ๐Ÿ˜ถ

[โ€“] Drusas@fedia.io 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like a stricture--narrowing in the esophagus which can cause food to get stuck. Don't know if you could choke to death from it since you can still breathe when it happens.

I was attempting to paint a picture of a food lump barely small enough to pass into your throat, but not enough to make it into your stomach and imply that a very small increase in size or contour could stop it earlier. (ie. asphyxiation)

Does that not track?