I went to the kitchen and was messing about when I saw a box of cereal. So I got myself some milk in a bowl, heated it in microwave for 20 seconds then added the flakes and it tasted good. Then I came to my room and while eating a thought went through my brain, why did they make Corn Flakes or cereals?

Of course the answer can be found online, so this is just part of what you can find online.

" The history of corn flakes goes back to the late 19th 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, corn. In 1894, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, the superintendent of The Battle Creek 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 and felt that spicy or sweet foods would increase passions, while cornflakes would have an anaphrodisiac property.

This 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. This event occurred on approximately April 14, 1894, and a patent for "Flaked Cereals and Process of Preparing Same" was filed on May 31, 1895, and issued on April 14, 1896, under the name Granose. See patent no. 558393 (via Google Patents) "

Reading that reminded me of that Anthony Hopkins movie, The Road to Wellville, where he plays Dr. Kellogg and I remember the part with Matthew Broderick and that machine, if you know what I mean.

So after that brief lesson, how do you like to eat your corn flakes? I like to eat them with warm milk, but can also eat them with good quality cold milk. I know Some who eat them with tea and some who even eat them with vimto!!

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