On 27/08/17 22:43, 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

Thanks all,

So my writer is referring to C W Post whose version of flaked corn was
initially called Elijah's Manna and renamed Post Toasties and the text
is from the advertising copy. That's what I needed to know.

tim w