"Eat as much as you like - just don't swallow it"
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Coming from Steve Burns, whose public persona was built on gentleness, curiosity, and emotional safety, the line reads less like edgelord provocation and more like a sly media-literacy lesson. Try everything. Taste it. Play with it. Don’t let it own you. That’s a very post-90s survival strategy: participate in pop culture, advertising, even ideology, but keep a pocket of skepticism intact.
The subtext is also about boundaries in an age of relentless intake. We’re encouraged to binge: content, opinions, outrage, wellness hacks. Burns flips bingeing into a conscious act by separating desire from internalization. You can sample, even overindulge, without converting every stimulus into identity. The intent isn’t purity; it’s control. Enjoy the buffet, he implies, but keep your autonomy.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Burns, Steve. (2026, January 16). Eat as much as you like - just don't swallow it. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/eat-as-much-as-you-like-just-dont-swallow-it-107164/
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Burns, Steve. "Eat as much as you like - just don't swallow it." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/eat-as-much-as-you-like-just-dont-swallow-it-107164/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Eat as much as you like - just don't swallow it." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/eat-as-much-as-you-like-just-dont-swallow-it-107164/. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.


