Do yourselves a favour and Google "Why corn flakes was invented"... [I Google Everything]
There is much that surprises me, but this got me like 😲... WTF!!
Please share your findings.
Please share your findings.
This page is a permanent link to the reply below and its nested replies. See all post replies »
midnightrose · F
It was kind of by accident I want to say. John Harvey Kellogg was a follower of the Graham diet. He fed his patients this diet too. His brother, Will, left the cooked wheat out letting it go stale. They forced it through the roller anyway and it resulted in the hard flake form. It was well received by the patients. Will saw an opportunity and added a little sugar to the corn flakes (went against the Graham diet). This caused a rift between him and his brother.
NankerPhelge · 61-69, M
@midnightrose What's the Graham diet?
midnightrose · F
@NankerPhelge
Graham crackers were originally invented in the early 1800s by a Presbyterian minister by the name of Sylvester Graham, who introduced this snack item as part of his then-radical vegetarian diet which eschewed white flour and spices.
Why? Graham hoped to end what he believed to be the scourge of his time: masturbation.
Graham, one of seventeen children, found sexual urges to be something to be repressed, and found “self-abuse” — a colloquialism common in the 1820s and 1830s — to be a particular ill of society. By some combination of pseudoscience and faith, he concluded that a vegetarian diet consisting of fruits, vegetables, limited dairy, and bland starches would result in an end to lustful behavior. For the last two decades of his life, Graham (who died at age 57) preached that his diet, later called the Graham Diet, would help those who followed it (called Grahamites) abstain from sexual activity, and, in particular, from self-love, which Graham argued led to insanity and blindness.
https://nowiknow.com/the-curious-history-of-graham-crackers-and-corn-flakes/#:~:text=Graham%20crackers%20were%20originally%20invented,eschewed%20white%20flour%20and%20spices.Why? Graham hoped to end what he believed to be the scourge of his time: masturbation.
Graham, one of seventeen children, found sexual urges to be something to be repressed, and found “self-abuse” — a colloquialism common in the 1820s and 1830s — to be a particular ill of society. By some combination of pseudoscience and faith, he concluded that a vegetarian diet consisting of fruits, vegetables, limited dairy, and bland starches would result in an end to lustful behavior. For the last two decades of his life, Graham (who died at age 57) preached that his diet, later called the Graham Diet, would help those who followed it (called Grahamites) abstain from sexual activity, and, in particular, from self-love, which Graham argued led to insanity and blindness.
NankerPhelge · 61-69, M
@midnightrose I've never heard of that guy. Was he OK? He sounds round the twist.
midnightrose · F
@NankerPhelge He sounded like a radical to me but his thoughts about masturbation were not uncommon during that time period.
NankerPhelge · 61-69, M
@midnightrose One thing I can say, he was definitely crackers. Lol :)