“…Although this series of studies provides important insight into the behavior of the tongue in a tribological contact, sample availability and variability might make it impractical to use pig tongue as a wide‐spread laboratory tool. As the knowledge of oral surfaces expands, including mechanical properties (Chen, Ahmad, Li, Swain, & Li, ; Chen et al, ; Cheng, Gandevia, Green, Sinkus, & Bilston, ; Dresselhuis, de Hoog, Stuart, & van Aken, ; Zhang, Du, Zhou, & Yu, ), composition and mechanism of lubrication (Yakubov, Gibbins, Proctor, & Carpenter, ; Yakubov, Macakova, et al, ), it is expected that better oral mimetics will become available and allow for more accurate characterization of the tribology of food products. Only one notable study, by (Ranc, Servais, Chauvy, Debaud, & Mischler, ), appears to systematically assesses the effect of fabricated surface structures on friction behavior in a model tribosystem representing the tongue/palate contact.…”