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Chuck Bryant

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

It was good.

Stuff You Should Know
Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

So the Kellogg brothers, William Keith or Will Keith and John Harvey Kellogg, they ran the Battle Creek Sanitarium, which essentially was a health spa, health resort dedicated to getting you to poop with precise perfectness.

Stuff You Should Know
Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

And other things.

Stuff You Should Know
Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

And this was in the 19th century.

Stuff You Should Know
Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

And so as a result of this, one of the things that came out of it was the Kellogg brothers inventing new types of food.

Stuff You Should Know
Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

And one of the foods that they invented were cornflakes.

Stuff You Should Know
Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

And almost as importantly as them inventing cornflakes was one of their guests, one of their patients coming along.

Stuff You Should Know
Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

And his name was C.W.

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Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

That's right.

Stuff You Should Know
Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

He loved those cornflakes and spent a little time there and said, you know what, I'm going to start making my own cereal.

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Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

I remember a lot of that.

Stuff You Should Know
Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

I guess when you do the live show several times, I remember a lot of details from that one, by the way.

Stuff You Should Know
Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

But like individual jokes even.

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Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

Lay it on me, buddy.

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Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

Just made me think of the Elton John album title was that, but I can't remember the name of the machine, the electric bath something.

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Pop Tarts: No Fruit Necessary

It sounded like an Elton John.