Cud stretched, forming a vacuum in the gullet that sucks the semi-liquid stomach content into the esophagus. From the esophagus it is taken back to the mouth with retro peristaltic movements. When the stomach content, or the cud, arrives in the mouth of the ruminant, it is pushed against the palate with the tongue to remove excess liquid, the latter is swallowed and the solid material is chewed thoroughly so the cattle can extract the minerals present in the cud brought to the surface during rumination. The function of rumination is that food is physically refined to expose more surface area
Cud (band) percussion. The performance was subsequently released on CD in 2002 as the mail order only "Chateau de Carles". Cud reformed to support the release of a double album of their greatest hits entitled "Rich and Strange - The Anthology" which was released in August 2006 on Universal Records, alongside a brief UK tour to promote it. Dunphy was replaced by Felix Frey on guitar for the tour. The same line-up again reformed for a short tour early in 2008 to support the expanded re-releases of "Elvis Belt" (now a double album entitled "Elvis Belt/Elvis Handbag"), "Leggy Mambo" and "Showbiz". At