Possible Clues:

• Eat, tongue in cheek by the sound of it?
• Eat in dining establishment
• Eat for a laugh, did you say?
• Eat in drinking establishment
• Absorb mentally
• Swallow might sing with swift, finally, at the end of June.
• Eat or absorb
• Absorb contents of building estimate
• Absorb hot joke on the radio
• Absorb popular joke, we hear