It’s time for a toast to Gatorade’s creator

Published 9:09 am Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Please raise your sports drink for a toast. The inventor of Gatorade has died. Even if you’ve enjoyed the sports drink for years, we bet you don’t know how it got its start. Let’s just say it started with a question about why football players don’t “wee-wee” after games. And the rest is sports history.

And while you’re toasting, please lift your glass to a properly stocked beer fridge. The trick is good organization. Put the boring stuff (i.e., Coors, PBR) at the top left.

Then your easy-to-please guests (i.e., college frat pals) will grab the easy-to-reach cheap stuff, leaving the tasty microbrews for more discerning guests.

Have you recovered from Thanksgiving dinner? Yes? Excellent. It’s time to try out some potatoes. Fresh, local, delicious potatoes.

Some say fresh potatoes, particularly Yukon Golds, are so tasty they don’t even need butter. That’s welcome news. The ol’ waistline could use a little help after Gravy Day and its five days of leftovers.