My kitchen is the heart of my home. My friends all like to hang out in there instead of in my more spacious living room.
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My kitchen is the heart of my home. My friends all like to hang out in there instead of in my more spacious living room.
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Do you ever get a tingling sensation in the back of your neck when listening to somebody crunching a potato chip? Congratulations! You just had an ASMR episode.
I was always told making yummy noises when eating was impolite. Chewing on a stick of celery silently isn’t easy. Or how about your table companion slurping their soup, or chomping away at their meal with gusto? We’ve all experienced it, but few of us have enjoyed it.
The act of eating involves all our senses. Taste is predominant certainly, but smell plays a part, helping us to appreciate nuances in the taste. We’ve all noticed how food seems to lose its flavour when we have a cold or our noses are blocked. The crunch, crunch sound of potato chips increases their tastiness. Then there’s vision – who doesn’t begin to salivate at the mere sight of a chocolate cake?
Each of the senses combines in different ways to give us a sensation, and sometimes these combinations cause us to experience a tingling sensation, starting in the scalp and running down the spine. It’s a sort of pleasant trance-like state which comes over us without warning. People who experience it try to hang onto it as long as possible. In medical terms, it’s called Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, or ASMR.
The intense sensation can be triggered by different situations, most often ones experienced primarily through sound and vision. Weird as it may seem, with a whole wide world emotions available to share on social media, 2018 will see an increase number of people filming themselves eating with the volume turned up to enhance the sound of their jaws working, all intended to trigger episodes of ASMR in the viewers .
In a trend that started in South Korea, Mukbang, or “broadcast eating” has become a popular livestreaming genre in which ordinary people with regular jobs prepare and/or consume large amounts of food while either talking to viewers or making eating noises as loudly as possible. ‘Large amounts’ may be an understatement – some of these meals are enormous
I admit it puzzles me, as I’m sure it does many others, why people would enjoy the sight of someone else eating so noisily. Still, there must be something in it because these videos now have half a million subscribers and counting.
So, the next time your dinner companion slurps their soup, instead of giving them a dirty look, suggest instead they create a video of it. Even if you didn’t enjoy their performance, somebody, somewhere will be delighted!
WARNING: the following video contains eating noises. Please let me know if you have a tingling sensation down your spine
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