May 31, 2007 -- Corn Flake Trivia

On this day...

Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, the superintendent of The Battle Creek Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan "invented" corn flakes to feed to the patients at the sanitarium.


TRIVIA QUESTION:

In what year did Kellogg patent the corn flake?


TRIVIA ANSWER:

May 31, 1895.

A Bowl of Corn Flakes

This idea for corn flakes began by accident when Dr. Kellogg and his brother, Will Keith Kellogg, left some cooked wheat to sit, while they attended to some pressing matters at the sanitarium. When they returned, they found that the wheat had gone stale, but being on a strict budget, they decided to continue to process it by forcing it through rollers, hoping to obtain long sheets of the dough.

To their surprise, what they got instead was flakes, which they toasted and served to their patients. This event occurred on approximately April 14, 1894, and a patent for "Flaked Cereals and Process of Preparing Same" was filed on May 31, 1895, and issued on April 14, 1896, under the name Granose.

Dr. John Harvey Kellogg

The flakes of grain, served with milk and marshmallows, were a very popular food among the patients. The brothers then experimented with other flakes from other grains.

In 1906, Will Keith Kellogg, who served as the business manager of the sanitarium, decided to try to mass-market the new food and set up his own company, Kellogg's, to do so, breaking with his brother over the addition of sugar to the flakes to make their taste more acceptable to a mass audience. Corn flakes were his first marketed product.

To increase sales, in 1909 he added a special offer, the Funny Jungleland Moving Pictures Booklet, which was made available to anyone who bought two boxes of the cereal. This same premium was offered for 22 years. At the same time, Kellogg also began experimenting with new grain cereals to expand his product line. Rice Krispies, his next great hit, first went on sale in 1929.

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Congrats to Khalil, K6FCC, for getting the correct answer to nonight's Trivia Question. Here's the list of folks that checked in to the net tonight and their answers:

>>>>>>>> NET CHECK IN's <<<<<<<<

* WB6A - Pat - 1926
* WB6ATV - Ron - 1923
* KE6CZH - Robert - 1930
* KG6DBL - Bill - 1907
* W6DTS - Ted - Early Check In
* K6FCC - Khalil - 1895
* KF6GKR - Terry - 1930
* KB6IS - Madeline - 1904
* KD6JEV - John - 1906
* N6KAS - Andy - 1913
* KG6KTC - Leon - 1928
* NY6L - Jay - 1900
* K6LMN - Roger - 1907
* N6NGU - Lee - 19??
* KD6NIW - Oliver - 1942
* W6NVY - Gary - "Under the Weather" but I'll Check Him In.
* KG6NWJ - Barry - 1897
* KD6OBM - Jason - 1917
* KF6PIH - Scott - 1901
* K6QVZ - Joe - 1900
* KG6RDA - Sidney - Checked in by ZZK
* AD6UP - Louie - 1907
* KF6YBM - Henry - 1919
* KF6ZQM - Harry - Checked in by ZZK
* N6ZZK - Theo - 1918
* KG6SQA - Madeline - 1903

73. de N6CIZ.