We're all told as kids to chew our food properly - but people don't usually go as far as The Great Masticator, Horace Fletcher. As Fletcher held it, food should be chewed until liquefied before swallowing.

"Nature will castigate those who don't masticate."

Rod tells Will all about him!

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