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Early 20th Cent American Cereals
"TimW" > wrote in message
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> This is from a book published in the UK in 1910:
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> ... 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."
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> 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.
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> Tim W
Probably cornmeal.
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