15 Bizarre Cereal Facts That Stay Crunchy, Even in Milk — mashable.com

From eggs and bacon to pancakes and waffles, none of these morning staples stand up against the all-American champion breakfast food: sweet, crunchy cereal. Fruity, puffy, crispy, flakey — we'll eat the simple snack all with reckless abandon. We dove into the giant bowl of cereal history to pull up 15 bit-sized facts about this crunchy breakfast staple. In 1894, Michigan-based physician Dr. John Harvey Kellogg invented the classic cereal while developing a dietary plan for his patients at the Black Creek Sanitarium. Kellogg believed spicy foods increased sexual desire, and prescribed his patients a diet of bland foods to curb it.

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