Coon Flakes: Musings of an Uppity Negro

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Kellogg is an occupational name, not for a manufacturer of cornflakes, but for a pork butcher, literally a 'kill hog'.

Cameron said he just met with a group of black voters this week in Graves County who didn’t care about Elliott’s comments.Originally invented as a breakfast food to counter indigestion, [1] it has become a popular food item in the American diet. According to others, John had the idea in a dream, and used equipment in his wife's kitchen to do the rolling.

What has been announced in Kentucky is not even remotely in the realm of anything that even begins to approach true justice for her murder. Will later insisted that he, not Ella, had worked with John, and repeatedly asserted that he should have received more credit than he was given for the discovery of the flaked cereal. To increase sales, in 1909 he added a special offer, the Funny Jungleland Moving Pictures Booklet, which was made available to anyone who bought two boxes of the cereal.

citation needed] The concept of using a stylized rooster originated from a suggestion by family friend Nansi Richards, a harpist from Wales, based on the similarity between ceiliog, the Welsh word for "rooster", and Kellogg's (unrelated) [12] surname. The development of the flaked cereal in 1894 has been variously described by John Kellogg, his wife Ella Eaton Kellogg, his younger brother Will, and other family members. There is considerable disagreement over who was involved in the discovery, and the role that they played.