Book 26, Question 12
How did cornflakes come about?
They got distracted, and the dough sat for hours until it went stale.
In 1894, brothers John and Will Kellogg in Michigan were cooking wheat dough. When they pressed it through rollers, it broke into flakes instead of a big sheet. They baked the flakes and served them. People liked them, and they later tried the same idea with corn.