On Sunday, August 27, 2017 at 11:43:40 AM UTC-10, TimW wrote:
> This is from a book published in the UK in 1910:
>
> ... a fellow names a new cereal after himself, and advertises it by
> saying that something of the kind was once the chief food of the
> American Indians, "one of the most stalwart races of men the world has
> ever produced"; their women, he says, "ground it laboriously in hollowed
> stones and cooked it in a rude manner," and yet, notwithstanding this
> laborious grinding and rude cooking, the corn, "together with meat taken
> in the chase, sustained a race of muscular giants."
>
> Does anyone know what he is talking about? I am pretty sure it would
> have been commonplace in the USA and the UK 100 yrs ago, the cereal
> advertised as Indian food, but I haven't been able to track it down and
> nail the reference.
>
> Tim W

Kellog's Corn Flakes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_flakes