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Corn flakes, or cornflakes, are a breakfast cereal made from toasting flakes of corn (maize). Originally invented as a breakfast food to counter indigestion , [ 1 ] it has become a popular food item in the American diet and in the United Kingdom where over 6 million households consume them.
White-corn cerealine flakes as a breakfast cereal were invented, perhaps accidentally, by Columbus, Indiana, mill worker James Vannoy circa 1884 [8] or 1887. [9] Vannoy's 1902 obituary said he found through experimentation a way to run the milled grain through rollers so that it would come out "in thin layers or flakes.
Post Toasties were originally sold as Elijah's Manna [3] (c. 1904) until criticism from religious groups (and consequent loss of sales) led to a change of name in 1908. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In the 1930s, Post paid Walt Disney $1.5 million in the first year to design cartoon animals to illustrate its boxes of Post Toasties.
The former often engaged the latter in helping to augment the vegetarian diets of their clientele (and yes, John Harvey did believe that bland food helped curb more, erm, carnal desires, though ...
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The Cracker Jack name and slogan, "The More You Eat, The More You Want" were registered in 1896. [1] Food author Andrew F. Smith has called it the first junk food. [2] Cracker Jack is famous for its connection to baseball lore. [3] The Cracker Jack brand has been owned and marketed by Frito-Lay since 1997. [1]
“Let them eat Corn Flakes” appears to be Kellogg’s CEO Gary Pilnick’s advice to cash-strapped shoppers who are spending the highest portion of their income on food than at any point in the ...