What is the worst food additive?

I take attendance by having the students answer a question.

What is the worst food additive?

• sugar
• salt
• coloring
• oil
• that thing in cheetoes that's killing orangutans
• "artificially flavored" anything
• MSG
• aspartame
• sugar alcohols
• creatine
• bacon
• mustard
• pepper
• carrots
• durian
• insects
• beetles
• maggots
• bricks
• cement
• cyanide

I have taken the liberty of sorting these from most likely to be added to a food to least likely. For some pairwise comparisons, I guessed.

I have no idea what the deal is with orangutans, but you can find out.

This post's theme word is olid, "foul-smelling." What olid horrors have you added to this soup stock?

What is the most fun thing you did during fall break?

I take attendance by having students answer a question. Sometimes I try to get to know them a bit better, so that I can distinguish them from the swarm.

What is the most fun thing you did during fall break?

The typical Swarthmore student:

• algorithms
• slept in
• sleeeeeeep zzzzzzz
• sleep
• sleep + sleep + sleep
• sleep!
• read Kleinberg + Tardos (our textbook)
• getting away from here
• sleep
• slep [stet]
• grad apps & Overwatch 💙
• divide & conquer

Something that sounds more "mainstream" fun:

• went to 
• NYC!
• Chicago
• visit friends
• Maid of the Mist @ Niagara Falls
• gardening
• climb a fortress
• disc golf
• collaged
• watched
• the trailer for PLANET EARTH II!!!!!!!
• Silicon Valley
• Evil Dead
• a movie
• played guitar
• visited my girlfriend's family
• tiddlywinks
• swam in a glacial lake
• ate good food
• hung with friends
• soccer game

"The most fun thing"? There were some... fun outliers:

• my car was surrounded by hundreds of sheep
• woken up by Armenian brute
• removed 4 teeth
• watched a kidney removal surgery
• bees?
• uncontrollable near explosive diarrhea

I have to ask --- "removed 4 teeth" makes it sound like you removed them from yourself, by yourself. That seems worrisome.

This post's theme word is