After eating, we cleaned up the crumbs and plates.

Meaning: This sentence describes the cleaning up process after eating the pizza.

Choice of Words: Crumbs means small pieces of food, especially bread or cake, that break off and fall. Plates means a flat dish used for serving or eating food.

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Post-consumption, we engaged in the tidying of comestible detritus and tableware.

Meaning: This is a more formal way of saying that we cleaned up the mess we made after we finished eating.

Choice of Words: Post-consumption means after eating. Engaged means to start doing something. Tidying means to make something neat and tidy. Comestible detritus means food waste or leftovers. Tableware means plates, bowls, cups, and other dishes that you use to serve or eat food on. When you put all of these words together, it means that after we finished eating, we started to clean up the food waste and the plates, bowls, cups, and other dishes that we used.

When our sustenance had been ingested, we undertook the task of removing the residual comestibles and the vessels that had contained them.

Meaning: This is a very formal way of saying that we cleaned up the mess we made after we finished eating.

Choice of Words: Sustenance means food. Ingested means to eat or drink something. Undertook means to start doing something. Task means a piece of work that you have to do. Removing means to take something away. Residual comestibles means food waste or leftovers. Vessels means containers, such as plates, bowls, cups, and glasses. When you put all of these words together, it means that after we finished eating our food, we started the task of taking away the food waste and the containers that we used to eat and drink from.

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