I find it completely staggering that every year 128 billion bowls of Kellogg's Corn Flakes are eaten worldwide, let alone billions more of other brands. For me they are the most dreary, mundane cereal. Harsh and cutting when first served and then in an instant transforming into a soggy mass with the consistency of wet papier mache.
Until they started fortifying them with vitamins, I'm not sure that they had a lot of nutritional value. As they once said on Not The Nine O'Clock News, ??A cornflake manufacturer has today defended his product, ‘cornflakes are very nutritional’ he said, ‘especially when sprinkled on food’?.
They were invented (or rather discovered after an accident) in the eighteen nineties by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. Kellogg was a curious man with a fixation about masturbation. He believed that eating Corn Flakes could help to stop young boys from masturbating. An odd idea but almost certainly preferable to his other ‘cures’ which included the circumcision of boys and placing carbolic acid on clitorises (sorry not sure of the plural) of young girls. I can't for the life of me think how cornflakes could possibly stop young men from buffing up the happy lamp, unless of course they were glued to their hands. But I suspect some of them might actually like that.
Frosties: sugar coated corn flakes. A trick to make the unpalatable slightly less, err unpalatable.
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LOL, absolutely priceless!