abstract
| - The most obvious way that a Snickers bar is satisfying is simple physical indulgence. The human tongue is lined with 9000 taste buds. Each one of these is named after Bud, an old friend who loves the taste of chocolate (or, at least, used to love it until the day he attacked the entire Halloween bag of Snickers and rendered the veterinarian powerless to intervene). Anyway, when the warm chocolate of a Snickers bar reaches the tongue, a party erupts in the mouth. This party is not like a drunken "frat party" but a moment of private jubilation at encircling something so delicious. The taste "Buds" send excited messages to the brain (as they also do on drinking Bud, a liquid that has nothing at all to do with the dog). When the Snickers bar has been fully ingested into the stomach, the receptors on the linings of the stomach walls in turn contact the brain, sending a message usually translated as, "Yup, it's down here now." The stomach then extracts all of the nutrients from the Snickers bar, leaving the individual with a full stomach and essentially satisfied. Q.E.D.
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