Diddlydee@feddit.uk to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 hours agoAre you familiar with that thing where you eat popcorn and you get a tough little piece lodged way back in the depths of your mouth right by the base of your tongue?message-squaremessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up199arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up195arrow-down1message-squareAre you familiar with that thing where you eat popcorn and you get a tough little piece lodged way back in the depths of your mouth right by the base of your tongue?Diddlydee@feddit.uk to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 hours agomessage-square18fedilinkfile-text
It’s usually a bugger to get out and you need to involve a finger. I don’t recall that happening with any other foodstuff.
minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·20 hours agoIsn’t that getting food lodged at your tonsils. We like to think that tonsils are a mile away at the back of the throat away from the mouth but it’s all very close to each other.
minus-squarespongebue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·16 hours agoI understood the feeling OP mentioned and my tonsils were removed decades ago
minus-squareDiddlydee@feddit.ukOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·20 hours agoNo, this at the side/rear of your mouth, right under the base of your tongue.
minus-squareSirSamuel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·18 hours agoLike, in the lower molar, where it meets the gums? Or suctioned to the base of your tongue? Cause one of those is common, and it ain’t the suction one
Isn’t that getting food lodged at your tonsils. We like to think that tonsils are a mile away at the back of the throat away from the mouth but it’s all very close to each other.
I understood the feeling OP mentioned and my tonsils were removed decades ago
No, this at the side/rear of your mouth, right under the base of your tongue.
Like, in the lower molar, where it meets the gums? Or suctioned to the base of your tongue? Cause one of those is common, and it ain’t the suction one