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Honestly! :mad: I said AFTER YOU RESEARCH IT. Do I have to tell you everything?! Terrible! You'll make me an old man before my life has even begun!
Anyway, I'll let you off:
Corn flakes are a food made by combining cooked
corn along with
sugar and
vitamins. The dough is rolled and toasted to make the well-known flakes, which feature as a
breakfast cereal, served with milk.
The history of corn flakes goes back to the late nineteenth century, when a group of
Seventh-day Adventists began to develop new food to meet the standards of their strict
vegetarian diet. Members of the group experimented with a number of different grains, including
wheat,
oats,
rice, and of course,
maize (called "corn" in North America). In
1894, Dr.
John Harvey Kellogg, the superintendent of a sanitarium in
Battle Creek,
Michigan and an Adventist used these recipes as part of a strict vegetarian regimen for his patients, which also included no
alcohol,
tobacco, or
caffeine. The diet he imposed consisted entirely of bland foods, since he believed in
sexual abstinence and following the precepts of
Sylvester Graham, the inventor of
graham crackers and
graham bread; felt that spicy or sweet foods would increase passions, while cornflakes would have an
antiaphrodisiac property. Other features of the sanitarium included exercise sessions and regular enemas, and Kellogg recommended his corn flakes in combination with
circumcision of males and the application of "pure
carbolic acid" on the
clitoris of females to prevent
masturbation in children. (
Plain facts for old and young, 1877).
The idea for corn flakes began by accident when Dr. Kellogg and his brother,
Will Keith Kellogg left some cooked wheat to sit, while they attended to some pressing matters at the sanitarium.
When they returned, they found that the wheat had gone stale,
but being on a strict budget, they decided to continue to process it by forcing it through rollers, hoping to obtain long sheets of the dough. To their surprise, what they got instead was flakes, which they toasted and served to their patients.
The flakes of grain, served with milk, were a very popular food among the patients. The brothers then experimented with other flakes from other grains. In
1906, Will Keith Kellogg, who served as the business manager of the sanitarium, decided to try to mass market the new food and set up his own company,
Kellogg's, to do so. Corn flakes was their first marketed product. To increase sales, in
1909 he added a special offer, the
Funny Jungleland Moving Pictures Booklet, which was made available to anyone who bought two boxes of the cereal. This same premium was offered for 23 years. At the same time, Kellogg also began experimenting with new grain cereals to expand his product line.
Rice Krispies, his next great hit, first went on sale in
1929.
Whats the deal with occupied Palestine?! Can you explain that in English please?!
Ummmmm . . . . unoccupied Palestine
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