Want to be grossed out? Ear you go:

I've had an adverse reaction to the words "nourishing liquid" since the Star Trek episode, "The Cage." This doesn't help.

Speaking of nourishing:How do you get your own opinion into a news story, right up front? Here's an example from Quartz:

Not just questionable, but notoriously so. Even though the hot dogs are notoriously questionable, some companies are competing to own a larger part of the market. Imagine that. There's some stuff about the deal itself, then more of the author's reminder that some people are terribly concerned about what other people are eating:

Got that? Despited REPEATED LINKS, Americans are eating the same overall amount of processed means as we ate 11 years ago, even though the population has risen - which would mean we're eating less.

OOPS TIFO, which stands for Today I Found Out, discusses an oh-crap moment in oil exploration:

Result? a ten-foot-deep freshwater lake turned into a 1,300-foot-deep saltwater lake. Whoopsadoodle indeed, and you don't often get the chance to say that.

Votd Hope this isn't a summation of your day so far:

It bears rewatching, if only for its hypnotic rhythm: cha-cha-cha-chonk / muffled ohh!