Dr. John Harvey Kellogg invented corn flakes. But he wasn’t exactly looking for a breakfast cereal that would capture the hearts and minds of little kids as they ran through the cereal aisles of their local supermarkets. As podcast host Jay Douglas tells it, Harvey had high hopes his corn flakes would help eradicate the scourge of masturbation. The story is here in Episode 44.
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Check out the blog story at The Out Of My Mind Blog. And be sure to read the Mind Doodle at the end of the post for a little-known story about C.W. Post, founder of the Postum Cereal Co. and John Harvey Kellogg’s secret corn flakes recipe.
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