It is not possible to overestimate how many men Jack's age choke on steak.
You'd think that's a cliché from a cartoon, but there's something about the 50-something esophagus, the financial means to buy big chunks of meat and/or and the greed that makes them bolt their steak, barely chewing. Booze doesn't help.
It's not always choking, either. If Jack ever seems fine but bitches about going to the hospital/having an operation, and is really coy about
why, it'll mean he had an esophageal food impaction. Usually they present late at night after they tried to boa constrictor a steak, then spent several hours in denial/hope that it would pass into the stomach on its own. A couple of hours after midnight, it's time to wake up the gastroenterologist on call.
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They even call it "Steakhouse Syndrome." Sometimes it's chicken, though. Breaded fast food chicken is kind of pre-chewed, but the breading works like cement.