What is it like to be Food? All images used are from either me and my own creation or the Wikimedia Commons and labeled for reuse and modification. All videos used are from Creative Commons.
You’re an apple just minding your own business and a stupid human just comes and eats you. What happens now?
The silly human starts to chew you up with his teeth as he uses his tongue to form you into a moist ball(Bolus). He then swallows you. You try to escape through his nasal cavity but you get blocked(by his soft palate and uvula). In a final, desperate attempt, you attempt to travel down his windpipe(Pharynx) to take him down with you are once again blocked (this time by a flap of cartilage called the epiglottis). You inevitably get swallowed.
You find yourself in a long tube(Esophagus) and you are trying to climb out and you can’t. Not only because you don’t have arms, but because the circular muscles in this tube are contracting to squeeze you down (Peristalsis) as if you were in a giant tube of Gogurt.
What’s this? You’ve reached the end of the long tube and have dropped down into the stomach. The tube closes behind you as you are dropped. You feel a strong burning sensation(Hydrochloric Acid) and you pass out. You regain consciousness about two hours later and you are now a thick liquid substance(Chyme). You are then released into another tube.(Small Intestine - Duodenum)
http://www.tubechop. com/watch/5611320
You are now in the small intestine, you feel weak. (All of your Carbohydrates are being broken down and your nutrients are getting absorbed by the villi). You continue to travel through this long narrow tube for what seems to be an eternity until you are finally pushed into a larger, broader tube(Large Intestine).
http://www.tubechop. com/watch/5611422
You are now in a much wider tube(Large Intestine). You feel a tingling sensation (Gut Bacteria). Now you are feeling tiny things latching on to you(Dead Cells) until you realize that now, they are a part of you. You are now a brown semi-solid object (You know what this is).
Right when you think this torture will never end, you spot a hole at the end of the tube. Right as you think you are about to escape, the walls in the tube seem to get narrower(Rectum) and the hole at the end shrinks and becomes stiff(Anus). You are about to give up all hope when the hole at the end becomes larger and softer. You are dropped in to a white bowl that is filled with water and you yell, “Freedom,� only for the noise to be drowned out by the flush of the toilet.
Poor Apple