Template:Did you know nominations/Robert Cade

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 14:14, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Robert Cade

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... that Robert Cade led the research team that formulated Gatorade, which has significant medical applications to treat patient dehydration?

ALT1: ... that Robert Cade led the research team that formulated Gatorade, which has generated over $150 million in royalties for University of Florida?
Reviewed: Not a self nomination.
Comment: Has not appeared on main page before. Promoted to GA as of 12/10/2014. Has been peer reviewed.

Improved to Good Article status by Dirtlawyer1 (talk). Nominated by 7&6=thirteen (☎) 11 December 2014 (UTC) at 11:51, 11 December 2014 (UTC).

- Good to Go! Meets all DYK requirements. Brought to GA status. Hook reference verified. Nice article. AND I love Gatorade.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 14:36, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

Comment Even though in its original iterations, before being reformulated: "It didn't taste like Gatorade," Cade said in a 1988 interview with Florida Trend magazine. In fact, according to Cade, when Gators lineman Larry Gagner first tried it, he spat it out and strongly suggested that the original experimental formula tasted more like bodily waste. Dana Shires remembered that "it sort of tasted like toilet bowl cleaner." But I like it too NOW. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 17:37, 11 December 2014 (UTC)

I'd like to know how these people knew what (a) bodily waste and/or (b) toilet bowl cleaner taste like? EEng (talk) 19:49, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

I had the same thought. But it was WP:Verifiable, whether or not it is WP:Truth. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 19:54, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

Oh, I wasn't doubting it, just wanted to know how they might have come to this specialized knowledge (something to do with fraternities, no doubt). Anyway, wouldn't this info make a great hook? EEng (talk) 20:10, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

I had that same thought. But decorum and editorial judgment and discretion have some effect, shouldn't they? On the main page? 7&6=thirteen (☎) 20:18, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

Uh, guys, "bodily waste" is the bowdlerized version. I'm pretty sure Larry Gagner said it "tasted like piss," but no one will quote him directly. He was probably speaking metaphorically. Cade, in one interview from the 1990s, admitted to tasting his own pee to see if Gagner was right; he was quoted as saying that it tasted nothing like Gatorade. This is the stuff that I chose not to include -- of course, it would make one heckuva DYK hook, eh? Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 21:18, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

P.S. Cade was a nephrologist, i.e., a medical specialist in kidneys, urinary tracts, and urinary tract processes. He probably should have had some idea of what piss tastes like. LOL As far as I know, Gagner never pledged a fraternity. Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 21:29, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for explaining. We'd never have figured out for ourselves that he probably said "piss" instead of "bodily waste". But since we're on the subject, why isn't the, um, self-exploration incident included? Let's see... "DYK that the inventor of Gatorade concluded it does not taste like urine?" Something like that. EEng (talk) 22:13, 13 December 2014 (UTC)