🎧 Breakfast Cereal
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Kelloggs Cornflakes are arguably the most iconic breakfast cereal, and for good reason. It was this product that launched breakfast cereal as we know and love it today.
But as with all good invention stories, it isn’t quite as simple as a good idea at the right time.
The invention of Cornflakes is wrapped up in 20th Century health fads, transformations in labour and the mother of all family feuds.
Today Dallas is joined by food historian Sarah Wassberg Johnson to get the full story.
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