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4 unusual facts about Cereal


Dean Village

It was known as the "Water of Leith Village" and was a successful grain milling hamlet for more than 800 years.

Early Dynastic Period of Egypt

Cereal agriculture and centralization contributed to the success of the state for the next 800 years.

Grapico

In 1920, the International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers presented Grapico Bottling Company (Mississippi) with a union agreement.

Karl Feller

He was president of the Cincinnati local of the International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers.


A. hystrix

Abacarus hystrix, the cereal rust mite or grain rust mite, a mite species

Brad Blum

Blum helped to lead a start up company called "Cereal Partners Worldwide" (CPW) in Switzerland; they had partnered up with Nestlé for an equal interest in the company, 50/50.

Blum's legacy with General Mills is most noted for three things: one, he is credited for being the person for putting the first female athlete on a Wheaties box (Mary Lou Retton), two, Blum is also regarded to be responsible for putting Walter Peyton on a Wheaties box which made Peyton the first African American athlete to do so, and lastly, the invention of a new cereal for General Mills; Cinnamon Toast Crunch, General Mills' most profitable brands.

Butler's Corella

The corellas feed extensively on the seeds of cereal crops, the seeds of weeds such as Cape Weed and Double Gee, as well as the corms of Onion Grass and insect larvae.

Cael Sanderson

Sanderson was the first wrestler since 1988's "Wheaties Search for Champions" winner, Sammy Chagolla, to be featured on Wheaties cereal boxes for his achievement.

Cereal box prize

Other manufacturers of major brands of cereal (including General Mills, Malt-O-Meal, Nabisco, Nestlé, Post Foods, and Quaker Oats) followed suit and inserted prizes into boxes of cereal to promote sales and brand loyalty.

Cerelac

Cerelac is a brand of instant cereal made by Nestlé.

Cereo Company

The Cereo Company of Tappan, New York was an American manufacturer of soy and cereal products in the early 1900s.

Cinnamon Toast Crunch

Cinnamon Toast Crunch (previously called Cinnamon Grahams in the UK but now called Curiously Cinnamon), known as Croque-Cannelle in French Canada and as a different-tasting but similar-looking variant called Cini Minis in other European countries where available, is a brand cereal produced by General Mills and Nestlé.

Cocoa Puffs

Unlike original Cocoa Puffs, the Combos cereal does not contain cocoa.

Coumatetralyl

Coumatetralyl is commonly used with grains and other cereals as a rodent poison in conjunction with a tracking powder to monitor feeding activity in a particular area.

Crabbet Arabian Stud

In 1926, she again received a significant infusion of much-needed cash when the famed Kellogg Arabian Ranch in California, owned by breakfast cereal magnate W. K. Kellogg, spent over $80,000 to purchase a number of Crabbet horses.

Dartford Crossing

It also appears in the opening credits of the police drama Thief Takers, and in a 2010 television advertisement for Kellogg's Crunchy Nut cereal.

Dryland farming

Dryland farming is used in the Great Plains, the Palouse plateau of Eastern Washington, and other arid regions of North America such as in the Southwestern United States and Mexico (see Agriculture in the Southwestern United States and Agriculture in the prehistoric Southwest), the Middle East and in other grain growing regions such as the steppes of Eurasia and Argentina.

Festering Hate

The last traces of recognition for Cereal Killer and The Plague appear in Rafael Moreu's 1995 film, Hackers.

FitNesse

Fitnesse is also a breakfast cereal marketed in the United Kingdom since 2003 by Nestlé.

Frances Meehan Latterell

During her career as research plant pathologist, US army biological laboratories, Fort Detrick, Maryland and plant pathologist, US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Frederick, Maryland, she conducted extensive research on cereal diseases, including gray leaf spot of corn and rice blast.

Freakies

They also appear in the 2007 film Flakes, when Neal Downs, portrayed by Aaron Stanford, receives a box of Freakies for his small New Orleans eatery, which serves a wide variety of cold cereal.

Gouttières, Puy-de-Dôme

There is a coverage of about 30% woods and some cereal cultivation and the breeding of Charolais cattle.

Grape-Nuts

A subsequent ad campaign generated another catchphrase, as Euell Gibbons became the spokesperson for the brand, promoting Grape-Nuts as the "Back to Nature Cereal".

Harlan Hogan

Soon Hogan was known in the industry for doing high profile ads for Raid, Life cereal, Head & Shoulders, and McDonald's "You Deserve a Break Today" campaign.

Helen Dallimore

She has also appeared in a series of TV commercials for All-Bran cereal, also featuring fellow actress and comedienne Julia Morris.

Henry McGee

He was also remembered by some as the 'mummy' of Honey Monster, a large, yellow, furry creature in advertisements for the breakfast cereal Sugar Puffs.

Henry Perky

The biscuits proved more popular than the machines, so Perky moved East and opened his first bakery in Boston, Massachusetts and then in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1895, retaining the name of The Cereal Machine Company, and adding the name of the Shredded Wheat Company.

Highland barley

Highland barley (Tibetan: ནས་; Wylie: nas; Chinese: 青稞; qīngkē, or 藏青课; zàng qīngkē) is the principal cereal cultivated on the Tibetan Plateau, used mainly to make tsampa and alcohol.

Honey Nut Clusters

Honey Nut Clusters aka CLUSTERS is a breakfast cereal manufactured by General Mills which refers to the cereal as "crispy wheat & rice flakes with delicious honey nut flavored clusters."

Hopper car

Covered hopper cars are used for bulk cargo such as grain, sugar, and fertilizer that must be protected from exposure to the weather.

Italian traditional maize varieties

Italian traditional maize varieties have been, according to historical, archaeological, botany, morphological, and genetic evidence, molded since the introduction of this exotic cereal crop from the Americas in the sixteenth century.

Just Right

An early commercial for the cereal in the United States has become an internet viral video due to it featuring a then-unknown Tori Amos.

Leila Arboretum

The Leila Arboretum dates back to 1922 when Leila Post Montgomery, widow of breakfast cereal magnate C. W. Post, purchased 72 acres (291,000 m²) of an old country club and donated the land to the City of Battle Creek “to be laid out and improved as a public Arboretum...”.

Lesser bandicoot rat

They can be up to 40 cm long (including the tail), are considered a pest in the cereal crops and gardens of India and Sri Lanka, and emit piglike grunts when attacking.

Maia Municipality

Among its industries are Sonae Indústria, a leading wood-based products company; market leader for paint & coating products CIN; fruit processing company Frulact; and cereal processing company Cerealis, which are headquartered in the municipality.

Majuli

Among the fascinating arrays of rice produced are the Komal Saul, a unique type of rice that can be eaten just after immersing the grains in warm water for fifteen minutes, and usually eaten as a breakfast cereal; the bao dhan, that grows under water, and is harvested after ten months and the Bora saul, a sticky brown rice used to make the traditional cake known as pitha,.

Myron Hunt

They were soon designing large houses in communities throughout Southern California including the summer ranch home for cereal magnate Will Keith Kellogg at the present day campus of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona).

Nutri-Grain

The brand was first introduced in Bankstown, a suburb of Sydney, in 1981 for a breakfast cereal consisting of flakes without added sugar.

Oh's

Honey Graham Oh's (or Oh's! or Oh!s ) is a cereal brand introduced in the mid-1980s by the Quaker Oats Company.

Paul Fung

The Dumb Dora strip came to an end in 1934, but Fung drew the character again during the early 1940s as part of an advertising campaign for Shredded Ralston cereal.

Pebbles cereal

WWE professional wrestler John Cena is now officially endorsed by Fruity Pebbles as the result of references to the cereal made by Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson over the course of 2011.

Pure Love

In the song, Rabbitt compares "pure love" to such things as milk, honey and the Cap'n Crunch breakfast cereal, before pointing out that the love shared between the protagonist and his/her object of affection is "99 44/100 percent pure" (borrowing from the old Ivory soap advertising slogan).

Rainbow Series

Phreak called them "those Crayola books" and Cereal replied, "Oh yeah, Technicolor rainbow." However the other books, such as the Peter Norton "pink shirt book" (The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC), are not part of the Rainbow Series.

Raisin Bran

Raisin bran (sultana bran in some countries) is a breakfast cereal manufactured by several companies under a variety of brand names, including Kellogg's Raisin Bran, General Mills' Total Raisin Bran and Ralcorp's Post Raisin Bran.

Tom Corbett, Space Cadet

On the back of boxes of Kellogg's Pep Cereal were cardboard cutouts of a space cadet cap, gauntlets and a ray gun, and the company made a direct tie-in with the product Kellogg's Pep: The Solar Cereal.

Weet-Bix

Sanitarium's breakfast cereal, wheat biscuits, originated in the 1890s in a product made of wheat flakes called Granose, invented by the Kellogg brothers, who went on to invent Corn Flakes.

Zoat

In the Rogue Trader Edition of the rules, it was said that they ate "Zoatibix", which is a pun on the breakfast cereal "Weetabix"


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