According to my west coast brother, today is "National Chocolate Covered Peanuts Day" and also "National All Eat Right Day." It's also, in case you want another choice, "International Swallowers Day." I laughed at the chocolate covered peanuts because a joke in Hello, Dolly last night was the suitor who bought his girlfriend chocolate covered peanuts, still in the shell. But I'm most intrigued about swallowers day. I understand the international part. After all, people all over the world do swallow, and, in some places pretty interesting things. Chocolate covered ants for example, which do not sound as tasty as chocolate covered peanuts. But I do believe that some people are better swallowers than others. A friend recently told me that he can't swallow large pills, which I find interesting because my husband couldn't swallow pills at all. He chewed them up. In fact he chewed all his food quite thoroughly. Which really is the right way to eat. I, on the other hand, tend to be a food swallower. I blame this on my two 6'6" brothers. It paid to eat fast at our dinner table. My mother used to tease me because my favorite vegetables were peas. I claimed it was the taste but she though I preferred them because I didn't need to chew them, they would just slide right down. What a great food. I can also swallow five pills at a time but I'm not one to brag.
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