So if the steak dinner in your stomach was just about “finished” processing and ready to pass to the next organ, what happens when a beer and a bowl of pretzels enters the mix? Does the stomach suddenly go “dammit man we were *just* about to move on! Now I’ve got to start *all over again*!” and start reprocessing? Or are the new food objects just left undigested and lumped in with the rest of the food clump that is passed on?
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Oh! I actually JUST finished reading [this book](https://youtu.be/y-GAsp1UtLA) about the digestive system with my daughter, so this is fresh in mind. (Great book series I think this sub would dig, by the way)
Your stomach dissolves your food into a liquid concoction called chyme, and it passes from there through a sphincter into your small intestine. Solid food, food that isn’t done with that part of the digestion process, straight up isn’t going to fit through that sphincter.
It doesn’t become solid waste again until the large intestine.
Your whole digestion tract is just sphincters all the way down.
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