- published: 01 May 2016
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Eating (also known as consuming) is the ingestion of food to provide for all organisms their nutritional or medicinal needs, particularly for energy and growth. Animals and other heterotrophs must eat in order to survive: carnivores eat other animals, herbivores eat plants, omnivores consume a mixture of both plant and animal matter, and detritivores eat detritus. Fungi digest organic matter outside of their bodies as opposed to animals that digest their food inside their bodies. For humans, eating is an activity of daily living.
Many homes have a kitchen room or outside (in the tropics) kitchen area devoted to preparation of meals and food, and may have a dining room, dining hall, or another designated area for eating. Some trains have a dining car. Dishware, silverware, drinkware, and cookware come in a wide array of forms and sizes. Most societies also have restaurants, food courts, and/or food vendors, so that people may eat when away from home, when lacking time to prepare food, or as a social occasion (dining club). At their highest level of sophistication, these places become "theatrical spectacles of global cosmopolitanism and myth." At picnics, potlucks, and food festivals, eating is in fact the primary purpose of a social gathering. At many social events, food and beverages are made available to attendees.
To each his own
Don't pick up the phone
'Cause they'll just say something
You don't wanna hear
From door to door
You'll find you need so much more
And out of shadow comes a light
And it's sayin'
Come, you're invited
Be at one with the brightness of you
Breathe and look see glow
And go so happy and free
'Cause it's so edible
Incredible
On the banks of the river you sing
La, la, la, la, la, la
And on the shore of the sea you'll say
"Take me backward down the stream"
Well, we've been through a lot now, baby
To say I've seen it all, now, that's just crazy
One thing's for sure, well, I've been down and out
Turned upside down and dumped right on out
These same old doors but I come back for more
And it's saying
Come, you're invited
Be at one with the brightness of you
Breathe and look see glow
And go so happy and free
'Cause it's so edible
Incredible
On the banks of the river you sing
La, la, la, la, la, la
And on the shore of the sea you'll say
"Take me backward down the stream"
Down the stream
Edible
Incredible
'Cause it's so edible