Seeking to provide sanitarium patients with meatless anti-aphrodisiac breakfasts in 1894, Michigan Seventh-Day Adventist surgeon and anti-masturbation activist John Kellogg developed the process of flaking cooked grains.
[...]
"Cold cereals are an invention of vegetarians and the health-food industry, first through Kellogg's and then through C.W. Post, which steals all of Kellogg's ideas," Smith explains.
"These companies realized early on that people like sugar, and kids really like sugar -- so they shifted their sales target from adults concerned about health to kids who love sugar. It's a thoroughly American invention."
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Why Don't We Eat Breakfast?
Because the current Yankee breakfast is bullshit, Adventist/Puritan/corporate style:
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment