Word: eate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another example is Negro eating habits. Unlike white Americans, who tend to dine with their families at certain ritual hours, many blacks eat whenever they feel like it, taking food from pots and dishes that always seem to be simmering on the kitchen stove. In Africa, tribesmen still leave food on a fire in the middle of the village for everyone to sample. Another Afro-American characteristic is the habit of eye rolling. Typically, blacks roll their eyes upward when they are daydreaming; preoccupied whites gaze vacantly into space...
...covers the mash. The Koreans scrape off this "exuberant fungus," as Seel described it, and soak the loaves in brine for a month. Then they pour off the black liquid, which is soy sauce, and make the debris left in the crock into a stiff soya paste. Some Koreans eat little of the paste, but others indulge at the rate of five ounces or more...
...people have a phobia about taking drugs because they think drugs will alter their natural condition and carry them into the unnatural sphere. But there is no condition for human beings which could be identified as the natural one. If you happen to drink a lot of coffee and eat bagels all the time, your natural condition will be tremendously different from what the man who eats beef and drinks wine feels like...
...influence of the drug different from surrendering yourself to the food you eat and the barrage of sensations you life puts you through every day? Perceiving the world through a marijuana haze does not change what there is to experience. It only changes how you experience the same old existence that always exists. It changes your values and your desires...
Also it seems that the philosophy behind most of the other stimuli we consciously subject ourselves to is to put us into neutral--to free us from stimulation. We eat food to free us from hunger and to save our bodies from weakness and deficiencies. We adjust the thermostat in our rooms so that we will have to feel neither cold, nor heat. We want to hang in the middle, to reach a stasis in how we feel. This is what we think of as our "natural" condition. From here, we presumably, we can experience anything that might happen...