I don’t think I’ve ever heard the esophagus referred to as “the food pipe” before

The work [...] defines any drink at 65 degrees Celsuis or above as "very hot" and posing a potential risk.

"the food pipe"

I get slightly unsettled reading this

Time to read a study and see how this article quoted it wrong to bait clicks

It's sort of like pain is a warning. Weird.

Food pipe.

This isn't new information

I dl'd the cited reference, and did a keyword search. There was no "food pipe" in the article.

Hot Drinks and Oesophageal Cancer: Prospective Analyses in Around 1 Million UK Adults https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijc.70654

Certain types of brain damage result in difficulty remembering nouns. Do you suppose the author, Michelle Roberts, is suffering from this, or is it Her editor?

Am I the only one here who grew up with the term "food pipe" in my vocabulary??

a similar things happen with uncontrolled gerd, causes barrets oesophagus, and makes that are prone to cancer, the cells in the lining goes through "changes" to resemble intestinal cells(which is a precursor). something similar happens here likely.

I read something about this years ago

Beyond normal esophagal damage or just on par with it?

I can see people assuming "I got mucosa I'm fine" but that wouldn't be giving these results if it were true

You can pry my tea from my cold, dead, and tumorous food pipe!