Adrianna Tan
Everything I’ve ever learned about cereal foods in America has been against my will.
Cornflakes were invented by Kellogg’s to prevent masturbation. And now I’ve just learned Chex was created by white supremacists to try to give white people mind control powers
Adrianna Tan
@chrisjrn both great failures
Christopher Neugebauer
@skinnylatte well I didn't know that second one
Adrianna Tan
Post claimed his cereals could cure appendicitis
https://drmirkin.com/histories-and-mysteries/c-w-post-entrepreneur.html
Adrianna Tan
Graham crackers were also supposed to be tools against masturbation
Kyle Ford
@skinnylatte ever watch Road To Wellville? Big fan :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Wellville_(film)
Rich Felker
@skinnylatte TBH I think we could really use a lot more publicizing of stuff like this. To help folks see that, even going way back, it's been weird creeps behind capitalist enterprises. That the current ones aren't an aberration but an expected outcome of a rotten system.
Adrianna Tan
@WIREID91LDNON lots of overlaps with some of the more intense Eastern religions which fixate on purity and blandness and denial as part of the price to be a moral and good person.
WillR_LDN
Innovators in breakfast cereal have been some of the most politically/ethically intense people in the culinary business. Cereal has been used to promote white supremacy, abolitionism, celibacy, teetotalism, vegetarianism, eugenics, body building, etc, etc.
astroPug
I liked chexmix back in the day, but have to bust the bubble - I did not develop mind control powers. Maybe it’s because I didn’t walk in circles or on the balls of my feet as this crazy racist dude prescribed.
I’m getting such a kick out imagining it, though: all those wannabe masterace mind control critters walking in non-sensical shapes, collecting pebbles, eating bland cereal.
Adrianna Tan
@irick the original makers of Chex.. Purina
⦺ irick 🐁🐈⚩
@skinnylatte
I want you to understand that one of the most famous recipes with Chex is called puppy chow. Imagine the look of horror on the faces of the people who first made it.
Adrianna Tan
@xs4me2 the road to wellville
xs4me2
Gee, someone needs to make a horror movie on this freak…
Adrianna Tan
@jamesh Kelloggs was a seventh day Adventist..
James Henstridge
@skinnylatte I think I'll stick to my non problematic Australian cereal made by the Seventh Day Adventist church.
Raven667
@skinnylatte I had heard about the others but not Chex, I'm disappointed but not surprised... people are weird and the repressive culture makes people even weirder
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