Cornflakes

[bluesoup]

How are they made? What is in them, exactly? Is there something off of which they flake? Is there a batter? How does it get into that flake shape? Are there little flake pans? Is there a little machine that blops batter out into little flake forms to be toasted? These questions have troubled me since breakfast

Comments

[canadianchia]

i would just like to say that this post really amused me. :) anything that makes me laugh out loud when i read it is a good thing.

[orionsbelt200]

do you know the story of how graham crackers came into existence? a reverend sylvester graham invented them, an "His original "Graham bread" was the centerpiece of the diet he created to suppress what he considered unhealthy carnal urges, the source of many maladies according to Graham." (see Wikipedia

how's that for reverse psychology?

[bluesoup]

I will never eat a Victorian-era carbohydrate again without thinking about sex.

[orangehut]

there is an place called "Cereal City" where you can learn all about cork flakes. We spent a day there one time during a family road trip when I was little. Good times were had by all!

http://www.kelloggscerealcity.com/Default.aspx

[bluesoup]

oh my god.

are they hiring?

[tinidril]

btw, how do wheat flakes -> corn flakes?? Do some more research, please.

[bluesoup]

ah yes. i can answer that. apparently they experimented with a number of different grains and found that corn was flakier, or something.

it's so weird. i'm just mad that someone beat me to the book.