Honey, I Finished The Internet

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1. The Road To Wellville was a comedic 90s movie loosely based on Kellogg’s health movement, if I remember correctly. And if I’m wrong, it was still funny as eff

2. Kellogg was a strange dude. Perhaps a little like Henry Ford. He was also a bitter rival of C.W. Post, the other cereal guy. Post had a daughter, Margorie Merriweather. She was a very sharp cookie. She inherited her father’s empire (later renamed General Foods). She was the richest woman in the United States for awhile. She met a Canadian who had stayed with the Inuit in Northern Canada (Nain) where he learned how to preserve fish by fast freezing. Post took this idea to major grocery stores in the USA but they had no refrigeration. So she bought freezers with glass tops (so people could see the food) and created the frozen food industry.

   Post (the daughter) was fascinated by architecture and oversaw the construction of Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s now famous residence.

   Kellogg worked at a Sanitorium that was developing food that would be more nutritious and easier to digest (I suggest that is code for cheaper). Some wheat was boiled and left to dry and then forgotten. When run through a roller the dried wheat produced flakes. Kellogg later tried this with corn and toasted the result to get the now famous Kellogg’s Toasted Corn Flakes.

   Kellogg’s and Post’s inventions of breakfast cereal would lead the world into a global problem of intergenerational obesity, all born out of a desire to produce a human-made food that was more healthy than what nature offered.

3. So, if you have dandruff and stand on your head, do you risk developing corn flakes? Interesting dermatologocial question.