On Mon, 28 Aug 2017 12:37:18 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 8/27/2017 11:27 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
>> On Sun, 27 Aug 2017 22:43:32 +0100, 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.
>>
>> The original cereal was created by C.W. post and called Elijah's
>> Manna. He allegedly stole the idea of these corn flakes from John
>> Harvey Kellogg and beat Kellogg to the retail market and naming his
>> company the Postum Cereal Company of Battle Creek.
>>
>> However, religious groups protested the use and likeness of Elijah and
>> it lead to a decrease in sales, which allowed Kellogg's Corn Flakes to
>> become the premiere brand and long-time American favorite.
>>
>> In response to the religious uproar and boycott, in 1908 C.W Post
>> RENAMED THE CEREAL AFTER HIMSELF, and called it "Post Toasties".
>>
>First thing I thought of was Kellogg's corn flakes. Although served
>with meat taken in the chase threw me. My grandpa used to eat "Post
>Toasties" LOL
>
>Jill

This was always my favorite and still is:
https://www.amazon.com/Shredded-Whea.../dp/B0035DZNUQ