Eli5: How can human beings digest a huge variety of foods at the same time?

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How can we digest a seemingly huge variety of foods at the same time?
I was at a wedding function and there were all kinds of foods, milk based, solids, hot, cold, meat, desserts and of course raw meats and veggies. It boggles my mind how our intestine can digest all of these if eaten at the same time. How did we get to this? I don’t seem to know any other species capable of this.

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All those foods are goupy slime after your stomach is done with them. Think of a brown-green soup when you throw up – all digestible food turns into that in your gut.