People’s food likes oddly exposed (5)

I believe the answer is:

folks

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'people's' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to communication as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'food likes oddly exposed' is the wordplay.
'oddly exposed' means one should take alternating letters.
'food'+'likes'='foodlikes'
The alternate letters of 'foodlikes' are 'FOLKS'.

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(Another definition for folks that I've seen is " People in general".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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