These are a few of the things that extreme culinary novelty-seekers choke down in their quest to sample all the delicacies the world has to offer.

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It's hard to even think about being productive when you're suffering from the flu, not to mention having to choke down those bitter remedies stockpiled in your medicine cabinet.

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They think Norwegian whalemeat contains too many pollutants to choke the stuff down.

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One of the challenges is we need to get those deficits down in the future so that we don't choke off economic activity and job creation.

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