Possible Clues:

• Take in with tinges
• Absorb, assimilate
• Sounds like it's a joke to be put away
• What a consumer does as a joke is reported
• Be a consumer? Not seriously, from what we hear
• Eat, but not seriously, we hear
• Swallow mint's centre, then gag audibly
• Have a bite say, as a joke
• Take in how truth's said to be commonly expressed
• Scoff when private joke is overheard