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Fitz

on Aug. 8, 2010

Interesting fact: the corn flakes were invented by sheer accident. John Harvey Kellog, a superintendent of the Battle Creek Sanitarium, was trying to work out new vegetarian dishes for his patients. He and his brother experimented with various grains: wheat, barley, corn, etc. One day they had to leave to attend an urgent matter, leaving cooked wheat. When they returned, it had already gone stale. They couldn't afford to dispose of it - so they ran the dough through the press, hoping to get long, thick cakes. Instead, it broke up into small flakes. Unabashed, the Kellog brothers roasted them and served to their patients. The historical event took place on August 8th, 1894.