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How Cereal Shaped America

Charting the evolution and influence of the grain-based breakfast

By Rebecca Smith Hurd,  Newser User

Posted Dec 14, 2008 10:01 AM CST

(Newser) – We might be eating hockey pucks for breakfast if a 19th-century kitchen accident hadn’t turned John Kellogg’s “barely edible” biscuits into today’s far-tastier flakes, Ian Lender writes in Mental Floss. “The cereal flake is the perfect consumer product,” he...   Read full story »

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