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unusual facts about Flakes



Cerealine

Corn grits in the form of uncooked flakes, known as cerealine, was used for beer brewing as of at least the 19th century, with Aurora, Indiana's T. & J.W. Gaff & Co.

Eurasian Treecreeper

It nests in tree crevices or behind bark flakes, and favours introduced Giant Sequoia as nest sites where they are available.

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.

Frosted Flakes

Many of the Frosted Flakes commercials featuring the show's star George Reeves are available on the DVD release of the series' first season.

Frosty's Winter Wonderland

To cheer him up, the kids, with his help, build him a snow wife the next day (suggested names included Cleopatra, Minnehaha, and Corn Flakes) and name her Crystal (voiced by Shelley Winters), but she is not alive like how he is.

Guardian stones

Flakes in large numbers were also found on a capstone of the passage grave 1 of Gnewitz, Bad Doberan county.

Haw flakes

Haw flakes have been seized on several occasions by the United States Food and Drug Administration for containing Ponceau 4R (E124, Acid Red 18), an unapproved artificial coloring.

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."

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.

Panquehue cheese

It is one of the most popular cheeses in Chile, it is similar in taste to Tilsit and often has chives or red pepper flakes mixed in.

Souls of We

When Brides of Destruction went on hiatus in 2006, Lynch and LeGrand put together a new band called Band of Flakes with Jason Slater, of Snake River Conspiracy, and Scot Coogan, formerly of Brides of Destruction.

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.


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