Some Cereal History...!

You wouldn't think that something as common as breakfast cereal would ever cause a controversy, but it has. Some of the controversy goes back to a time long ago.

Elijah’s Manna

Photo credit: New York Times

Cereal controversy has gone on as far back as the 1800s.

Seventh-Day Adventist Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his brother, Will Keith Kellogg, were trying to develop a food that went with their church-recommended vegetarian lifestyle to feed patients at their sanitarium. They would not go on to officially market corn flakes until 1906, which allowed a former patient, C.W. Post, to take his own stab at the idea.

After C.W. Post finished creating Grape Nuts, he decided to try his own take on corn flakes that he would call Elijah’s Manna. This began a major controversy, with clergymen denouncing the product as sacrilege, and Britain even barred it from being imported into the country. Though Post tried to defend his brand, he eventually gave in, and in 1908, the cereal went on to become Post Toasties.

Some of these controversies seem a bit much to me, but what do I know. I'm more of a bacon and eggs person myself.

Coffee out on thew patio again today!