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All Acting Regiment

18:52 / 27.11.05

The history of corn flakes goes back to the late 19th century, when a group of Seventh-day Adventists began to develop new food to meet the standards of their strict vegetarian diet...Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, the superintendent of a sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan and an Adventist, used these recipes as part of a strict vegetarian regimen for his patients, which also included no alcohol, tobacco, or caffeine. The diet he imposed consisted entirely of bland foods, since he believed in sexual abstinence...felt that spicy or sweet foods would increase passions, while cornflakes would have an anti-aphrodisiac property...Kellogg recommended his corn flakes in combination with circumcision of males and the application of "pure carbolic acid" (or Phenol as it referred today) on the clitoris of females to prevent masturbation...

I just want to eat breakfast without aiding the WASP conspiracy. What other horror stories can you tell us about everyday foods?

Ganesh

19:31 / 27.11.05

Kellogg's briefly mentioned in a Head Shop thread about circumcision. Made me look at his 'flakes' in a whole new light...

Jack Fear

20:25 / 27.11.05

There's an amusing/horrifying (slightly fictionalized) take on Kellogg in T.C. Boyle's novel The Road To Wellville.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

20:28 / 27.11.05

And, of course, the movie based on said book.

Jack Fear

20:35 / 27.11.05

A movie best avoided, which is why I did not deign to mention it. The only reason at all to watch it is for the views of the Mohonk Mountain House, the amazing old hotel where it was filmed—and there's too little of that to justify existence of the film.

Saint Keggers

22:13 / 27.11.05

"Kellogg's briefly mentioned in a Head Shop thread about circumcision. Made me look at his 'flakes' in a whole new light... "

yeah, I always thought they'd be more meaty and chewy.

Ganesh

22:31 / 27.11.05

I thought they'd be cheesier.

Cailín

01:56 / 28.11.05

To paraphrase Dr. Joe Schwartz in "that's the way the cookie crumbles" (ECW Press, 2002): Dr. Kellogg gave and received more enemas than anyone in history. And he was a big believer in the yogurt enema.
Dr. Kellogg seems to have been a sick bastard all around.

D Terminator XXXIII

04:55 / 28.11.05

A fact illustrated by the, uh, fact that Anthony Hopkins played him in the movie version. He's Lecter with flakes and a nice bottle of milk.

MJ-12

10:59 / 28.11.05

This just makes the morning ritual of cereal taken with black coffee, bacon, a pastry and a cig or three all that much more satisfying.

Spin for me, Dr. Kellogg. Spin in your grave.

grant

20:43 / 28.11.05

Part of the same weird "health" food craze: Graham crackers. Among other things, supposed to suppress the urge to masturbate.

Shrug

20:59 / 28.11.05

(Well they certainly don't encourage it.)

Mourne Kransky

21:18 / 28.11.05

Do they stick your fingers together or something?

Shrug

22:28 / 28.11.05

Dunno but crumbly biscuity bits in the bed linen would put me right off anyway.

Ganesh

22:38 / 28.11.05

Cracker-knacker is not good.

astrojax69

00:14 / 29.11.05

margarine, before colouing, is black. eek!

[threadrot] apparently coca-cola, unsure what to call their product in its launch into china, went with whatever 'coca-cola' - as a sound - meant, or sounded like, in mandarin: this means 'bite the wax tadpole'.

probably apocryphal but funny... [/threadrot]

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