When parents warn children not to play with their food, there’s now reason to add a menacing “even if”: “even if the food begins playing with you”. Recently, food was given a new ability to play, a little, the moment it encounters milk. Researchers have patented a way to make breakfast cereal change colour as […]
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Scientists Gain Insights into and with Cereal Flakes
After generations of humans had been pouring cows’ milk onto breakfast cereal flakes and then pouring that milk/flake mixture into themselves, a researcher named Luigi Degano fed breakfast cereal to 21 cows in Italy. Degano wanted to see how this might affect the milk that later issued from the cows. Degano, based at the Istituto Sperimentale Lattiero […]
To prevent unappetization
Why do great inventors invent? In “PROCESS FOR PREPARING A COOKED CEREAL AND THE RESULTING PRODUCT“, US patent #3,113,868, granted Dec. 10, 1963, inventor Louis J. Lee makes clear some of his motivation: The seriousness of this problem can be appreciated when it is realized that in many commercial eating establishments, particularly in cafeterias, it […]
Secret identity cereal, pursued
Investigator William J. Maloney sent us this photo, taken in his local supermarket, of a new breakfast cereal’s box upon which is emblazoned the phrases “Hannah Montana” and “SECRET IDENTITY CEREAL”. Investigation yields some tentative conclusions: 1. This may be the only secret identity cereal the existence of which is no longer secret. 2. Some […]