Mental Flakes

@p1kef1sh (45681)
March 7, 2011 4:01pm CST
On this day in 1897 Dr John Kellogg fed his newly created Cornflakes to a group of mental patients to see how they liked them. The result is not recorded but I wonder: do you have to be mental to eat cornflakes. Cheerio my Lucky Charms....
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@jerzgirl (9291)
• United States
8 Mar 11
Nah - you don't have to be mental, honey. Bunches of oats are also good dietary supplements. And, so many farmers raisin bran these days, we have a wide selection of flaky choices before us.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
8 Mar 11
It's All Bran to me Jerz.
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@ellie333 (21016)
7 Mar 11
Oh yes a cunchy nut myself ....tries to fidget out of straight jacket... gives up and eat straight from bowl with mouth......yummy
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@ellie333 (21016)
7 Mar 11
CRUNCHY even - back with my typos
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
8 Mar 11
LOL. I rather like "cunchy " Ellie!
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
8 Mar 11
oh ellie a cunchy nut could really be nuttyoh my you folks are making me hungry.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
8 Mar 11
hi pikey wow I have to think on that one. gee whiz and thinking is so hard lol. corny I bet those who ate the corn flakes were sort of corny with loads of old tired silly jokes. I really think you have to have a few screws loose to eat Captain Crunch for example as its so loaded with sugar it ought to give kids at least a sugar high as for adults well to each his own. some of these really sugary sweet cereals would send me into a diabetic coma of super high blood sugar. I love puffins though and its a little sweet but not like some that have more sugar than a real delicious doughnut a nd I sure would love to eat a donut. not sure which spelling is correct.spelling checker did not help. but yeah I thing those mental peoplewere corny and drove each other nuts with all their old corny jokes.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
8 Mar 11
Over here we have a cereal that has been around for almost 100 years called Force. "Here comes Sunny Jim. Force are the flakes raises him".
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
7 Mar 11
what do you have to be to eat frosted flakes?
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
7 Mar 11
Cold!
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
7 Mar 11
sounds about right...
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@yoyo1198 (3641)
• United States
7 Mar 11
No, but I'm sure it would help. ----------------Honey Bunches
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
8 Mar 11
Nut clusters.....
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@rebelann (112786)
• El Paso, Texas
1 Jul 21
I love your avatar @yoyo1198 where did you find it?
@catdla1 (6005)
• United States
7 Mar 11
No, but it helps in you're putting a cornflake jigsaw puzzle together. Well, as long as you don't have ADD, too. Look, I see a bird.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
8 Mar 11
Oh no. This jigsaw is of a bowl of cornflakes....
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@nannacroc (4049)
8 Mar 11
Well I do enjoy my Crunchy Nut so I suppose you do.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
8 Mar 11
Too much sugar for me. You crunch alone I'm afraid. Not sure afraid of what though!
• Canada
10 Mar 11
LOL I'd rather have bacon, and eggs, or a nice big Danish pastry, or maybe a bagel with cream cheese, and smoked salmon. Or maybe something with caviar on top. That's my idea of breakfast. If someone watches me eat a bowl of cornflakes, they'll think I've gone completely nuts. LOL I loved the title of this discussion. :)
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• Canada
1 Jul 21
@rebelann I love that 10 years later people are still reading this discussion.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
10 Mar 11
Not Crunchy Nuts then!! LOL.
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@rebelann (112786)
• El Paso, Texas
1 Jul 21
Love this discussion. I wonder if I can still suggest it .......... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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@ElicBxn (63594)
• United States
7 Mar 11
I would have too be mental to eat them, but I'm allergic to corn...
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
8 Mar 11
Better not then. There's quite a lot of corn in this discussion too! LOL.
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@BarBaraPrz (47285)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
7 Mar 11
Methinks you're chock full o' nuts.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
8 Mar 11
I'm just a honey..... Nut cluster!
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@rebelann (112786)
• El Paso, Texas
1 Jul 21
Too funny
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@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
8 Mar 11
I've always liked Corn Flakes. Simple and tasty! It's the ultimate in breakfast cereal--no added sugar or chemicals (as far as I know), good crunchy stuff that tastes great. And they are still relatively cheap if you buy the store brand instead of Kellogg's!
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
8 Mar 11
I'm not sure about there being no added "stuff". But a little of what you fancy etc.
@bhanusb (5709)
• India
8 Mar 11
Hi pIke, I can't understand the relation between cornflakes and mental patients. Sometimes I eat cornflakes as breakfast. Children like this food more. It has came here from the West. Like Rock music West has given us many food which were unknown to us.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
8 Mar 11
I don't think that there is a relationship. Interestingly as Asia enjoys more western food we are eating more curries etc. Did you know that one of Britain's most popular meals is chicken Tikka Masala?
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@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
14 Mar 11
Well, I don't know about mental flakes, but I guess you could call them metal flakes after a video that I saw a couple of years ago about them. The video showed them getting iron filings out of the flakes. I cannot remember how it was done, I think they ground them into a powder or something and then ran a magnet over them You could see the metal jumping up out of the corn flakes and onto the magnet. If the claim was true that they actually put metal filings into the corn flakes t give them iron, then I guess you would have to be mental to eat them!
@GardenGerty (160642)
• United States
22 Apr 11
Mental to make them out of metal.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
14 Mar 11
Nothing like a little adulteration to help the flakes slip down eh Bill? LOL.
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@RawBill1 (8531)
• Gold Coast, Australia
22 Apr 11
Yep, very mental indeed!
• United States
7 Mar 11
Actually I am a Special K girl, 3 to 4 times a day and I am a happy girl.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
8 Mar 11
You must be super slim! LOL.
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