well, i don't give a more definitive answer, see, bc i don't want to...be quoted as having given an answer at all! lol
my understanding is pretty much what i have stated, BoL, i mean, you already have a definition of what the cliche` "eating and drinking _____" means, it is just a parable too, right, and parables are generated for a reason, the same reason anything you say can be taken two ways, the same reason you cannot state an absolute truth. and neither can i, sorry, but you are asking me to build a tower too, i guess.
There is nothing wrong with the understanding you have right now.
Now, write it down, in detail, and then come back to it in ten years, twenty years, or for that matter go back ten or twenty years, and review, right, i mean it hasn't remained static almost surely, somewhere in there you learned Pascal Meal, and yadayada it evolved; or it didn't evolve, whatever, that is an answer too