Im learning the use of 時 and it's a wee bit confusing.

I get the difference between

  * 食べる時、お酒を飲む
  * 食べた時、お酒を飲む

But the difference between

  * 食べる時、お酒を飲む
  * 食べている時、お酒を飲む

eludes me. Are they the different ways of saying the same thing? I drink
alcohol when eating/when I eat?
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Use of 時 with different verb conjugations
食べる時お酒を飲む can mean, as you say, you habitually drink alcohol in eating, and
besides that, you drink it just before eating. That part is the difference
between 食べている時お酒を飲む, which means you drink it in the course of eating.
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> 食べる時、お酒を飲む。 _In the moment of "eat", (I) drink alcohol._

This first one indicates that when the _"time to eat"_ comes, you drink
alcohol (maybe a dose of vodka before lunch, or maybe you just skip the meal
altogether and drink instead).

> 食べている時、お酒を飲む。 _In the moment of "eating", (I) drink alcohol._

This second one indicates that you drink alcohol during the span of time
you're eating, as a habit possibly.
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