Don't Play With Your Food

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Jay Mechling

Abstract

Is there a person alive who hasn't been told at some time, "Don't play with your food"? If eating is a human universal and if play is a human universal, then playing with food very likely is a human universal. I have not scoured the ethnographic literature for evi­dence of this claim, though the scarcity of references to playing with food in the work of anthropologists and other ethnographers could mean no more than the fact that playing with food is one of those everyday, mundane experiences that ethnographers fail to record and report. Playing with food hits the triviality barrier (Sutton-Smith, "Psychology of Childlore" 1-8).

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