The things you learn from facebook.

Haha, yes I saw that on FB quite a while ago annsixty. And I'm not going to mention it here - I'll let people Google it and be shocked ?

Please tell

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I've read this but not on Facebook. I'm not on it.

I am surprised that it took FB to reveal that :-) It has been very well known for decades

Not by me

It was said to halt excessive sexual activity and masturbation Sara not sure if that’s eating them or putting them in your pants ?????

I expect they're ideal for cereal cheats..

Anthony Hopkins played John Kellogg, in the film The Road to Wellville.
I don't think the Kellogg's branding quite captures that element of cornflakes development or history... unless there is something symbolic in the Kellogg's cockerel ?

Thanks Bluebelle

Thats the strangest theory I’ve heard in years! Is there any evidence that it worked?

Jeez - I've just had a quick Google and that Kellog bloke was warped.

W. K. Kellogg invented cornflakes to sprinkle on the floor outside the bedrooms of houseguests, as he deplored depravity and dissolute behaviour. ?

Miss Adventure - I laughed at your remark about cereal cheats. Very witty.

BTW...I have only read the first 4 posts on GN and not yet read the facebook page as I'm not on FB.
What is the answer?

Read the seventh post them Gabriella

One of the Kellogs was also responsible for first promoting breakfast as the most important meal of the day. Of course it was purely coincidental that a particular breakfast cereal had a central role in his finances.

The thing about being in a Trivia team for decades, is that you pick up all sorts of useless, although often interesting information.

Invented from an accidentally overcooked pot of corn at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, cornflakes conformed to the strict dietary principles of the Seventh Day Adventist inventors.
A bland diet for recovering soldiers was deemed essential 'to cool the passions'. Some hopes!

Digestive biscuits (US Graham crackers) were for the same purpose as cornflakes.

The Victorians had an obsession with sex, which in itself was counter-productive.
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Trainers were inspired by waffles.
The ancient Egyptians thought lettuce an aphrodisiac (ask a rabbit)

It was illegal to colour margarine yellow in Wisconsin until 1967 - up to that date it was an unappetising white fat there. For a short time in the early 20th century, some States coloured it pink.

Vaseline, petroleum jelly, was eaten every day by its inventor; he died at 96.

As for eye makeup and tampons...probably the least said, the better.

I'm horrified and glad I've never understood how to use FBook!
And I'm NEVER buying Cornflakes again after reading this. Not that there's any passion to be subdued in our house, unless it's related to Match of the Day!