Idly wondering this morning if Kellogg's runs a museum somewhere and how much detail it goes into on why corn flakes were invented
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The story has everything. Eugenics, weird sexual fixations, a bitter family feud, um….corn… www.npr.org/2018/07/06/6...
aug 10, 2025, 3:24 pm • 1 0 • view
For anyone who doesn't know, @iwriteok.bsky.social has a great two-parter podcast episode about Dr Kellogg and his... upsettingly bizarre health practices. www.youtube.com/watch?v=agmq...
aug 11, 2025, 2:37 pm • 0 0 • view
I know PBS did a documentary on it
aug 10, 2025, 3:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Battle Creek, Michigan has a Cereal History Exhibit and a Dr Kellogg Discovery Center if that means anything to you
aug 10, 2025, 3:18 pm • 8 0 • view
If there is, it is probably kept in an elaborate safe like it were a cursed relic
aug 10, 2025, 3:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Some real temple of doom shit here
aug 10, 2025, 3:20 pm • 1 0 • view
You should look up his work with yogurt.
aug 10, 2025, 3:46 pm • 0 0 • view
its definitly a fun tale to tell people :)
aug 10, 2025, 3:24 pm • 0 0 • view
I think I went there on a field trip as a kid?
aug 10, 2025, 4:48 pm • 0 0 • view
There is and they barely talk about it.
aug 10, 2025, 3:21 pm • 7 0 • view
Then the marketers for Frosties saying ‘Let’s distance ourselves from any suggestion of masturbation prevention with a tiger mascot’
aug 10, 2025, 3:41 pm • 1 0 • view
And THEN the Furries came along.
aug 11, 2025, 10:28 am • 1 0 • view
If they do, it's probably vague enough to just say that Me. Kellogg himself promoted certain foods and diets to promote a more moral lifestyle, as was common practice at the time (Graham crackers also rose up out of similar sentiments)
aug 10, 2025, 3:33 pm • 0 0 • view
They’ll have to show that legendary clip from QI. “I think they were used by monks as a sort of anti-masturbatory aid…” “…Johnny Vegas! Take some points!” “You’re jokin’?!?”
aug 10, 2025, 3:26 pm • 10 0 • view
youtu.be/5k4piSGR2hM?...
aug 10, 2025, 3:42 pm • 7 0 • view
I love that clip. I remember watching that episode when it first broadcast and that moment when Stephen announced Johnny was (mostly) right made me laugh my arse off!
aug 10, 2025, 3:47 pm • 3 0 • view
“They made gloves out of them!” *winces*
aug 10, 2025, 3:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Are you familiar with @knowingbetter.nebula.tv ? He made a fantastic video on this: youtu.be/hZ4ES8mOzYg?...
aug 10, 2025, 3:30 pm • 0 0 • view
But if remember right, wasn’t the cereal company founded by J.H.’s brother? And wasn’t J.H. furious at him for adding sugar to his inventions and making them taste good?
aug 10, 2025, 4:48 pm • 3 0 • view