The Bottom of the News

The melting sensation. The feel of fat. The gold dust on your fingers. The bright colors. The MSG. The NYT takes you inside the lab of a food scientist to find out why you love Doritos so damn much you can’t believe it.

+ Mental Floss: 42 Idiom Origins Explained.

+ Damon Lindelof set out to write a glowing piece on the Breaking Bad finale, but he ended up talking about the Lost finale — because you are driving him nuts on Twitter.

+ It won’t happen for another 70,000 years. So you better be ready for this year’s Thanksgivukkah.