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BREAKFAST by Kathy Wolfe What’s for breakfast? Since September is allAmerican Breakfast Month, Tidbits is checking out what’s in the cupboard for the best meal of the day. • What do eggs, bacon, oatmeal, toast, and waffles have in common? They’re all jentacular, which is a fancy word for “pertaining to breakfast.”
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• Drs. John Harvey Kellogg and William K. Kellogg first produced the wheat flake in 1894. Four years later, Kellogg’s Corn Flakes were introduced, and in 1906, the company made its headquarters in Battle Creek, Michigan. The Kellogg Company was the first to create “Waxtite” wrappers to package product inside cereal boxes. William K. Kellogg funded several charities throughout southern Michigan, donating more than $66 million to worthy causes during his lifetime. • In 1928, Kellogg’s presented Rice Krispies. In 1939, Malitta Jensen and Mildred Day created the long-time favorite recipe for Rice Krispie Marshmallow Treats as part of a fundraiser for the Campfire Girls. The 1930s also brought the introductions of Snap! Crackle! And Pop!, the animated mascots for the cereal. turn the page for more!
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BREAKFASTS (continued): • Back in 1921, as a Minneapolis health clinician was mixing up a pan of bran gruel for his patients, he accidentally spilled some of the glop on a hot stove. It sizzled and crackled and became a crisp flake before his eyes. Thinking it could be a good breakfast item, he presented it to the local Washburn Crosby Company (later General Mills). The mill went to work developing a flake that wouldn’t crumble inside a box, and after 36 tests of different grain varieties, in 1924, Wheaties were born. The company held an internal contest to name the flake, and the entry submitted by an employee’s wife was chosen. The name Wheaties beat out Nutties and Gold Medal Wheat Flakes. • Radio’s first ever singing radio commercial advertised Wheaties in 1926. In 1933, an advertising company came up with the slogan “Breakfast of Champions,” a phrase still in use today. Baseball player Lou Gehrig was the first athlete to be featured on the Wheaties box in 1934, and was followed up with Babe Didrikson, Jesse Owen, Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth, and several other well-known athletes. However, their faces were all pictured on the side or back of the box until 1958. That was the first year that the picture was on the front of the box, when Olympic pole vaulter Bob Richards was featured. Basketball great Michael Jordan has been on the Wheaties box a record 18 times. • With all the health benefits of oatmeal, who wouldn’t choose it for breakfast on a regular basis? It helps lower cholesterol, reduces the risk of high blood pressure, is rich in antioxidants, reduces hardening of the arteries, helps stabilize blood sugar, and boosts the immune system. Sounds like it’s nature’s perfect food! • There are several kinds of oats on the market, including old-fashioned oats, which are whole oats that are simply rolled to flatten them. Quick oats are made the same way, but are cut into smaller pieces for a faster cooking time. Steel cut oats have not been rolled, but rather are cut into thirds, making for a longer cooking time and thicker texture. The oats in instant oatmeal are rolled thinner and cut finer. Livestock eat about 95% of the oats grown in America. • The Quaker Oats Company was the first to
Wheaties had long had athletes on their register a trademark for a breakfast cereal. boxes, it wasn’t until 2009 that Cheerios The Quaker Oats man image was registered featured their first, Olympic gold medal with the U.S. Patent Office in 1877. Although winner, gymnast Shawn Johnson. some think his image is that of William Penn, he was registered simply as “a figure of a • As far back as 1820, the British were singing man in Quaker garb.” The owners selected the rhyme, “Do you know the muffin the likeness because he signified “good man?” During the Victorian period, many quality and honest value.” Quaker was the households had fresh baked goods delivered first to include a recipe on its package, as to their door by the muffin man, who brought well as having the original idea of including not the cupcake-like confection Americans a premium in the box, which in 1891, was call a muffin, but rather a flat round bread a chinaware item. Their familiar cylindrical baked on a griddle. Today, of course, we call canister came along in 1915. them English muffins. • You may not recognize the name of John • In 1971, McDonald’s had no breakfast Gilchrist, but it’s likely that his face is familiar. business. After one franchisee cooked up an From 1974 to 1986, Quaker used him, along egg, added cheese and Canadian bacon and with his two brothers Michael and Tommy, put it on an English muffin, the company in an ad campaign for Life cereal. While the adopted his idea calling it the Egg McMuffin. older brothers refused to try the cereal, About 25% of McDonald’s sales are from John, known as Mikey in the ad, happily ate breakfast sales these days. Life, and his brothers chorused, “He likes it!” • In 1919, Minnesota mill owner John Campbell
• General Mills introduced Cheerioats in 1941, but due to a trademark conflict, the names was changed to Cheerios in 1946. Although
started a company with $900 worth of poker winnings. He added malt flavoring to farina cereal and dubbed his creation Malt-O-Meal.
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RYAN REYNOLDS Did you know that one of Hollywood’s hunkiest leading mean hails from up next four months without doors. steady climb to stardom with The north? Let’s look at the life of Ryan • At age 19, Reynolds attempted to Amityville Horror, X-Men Origins, Reynolds, who at age 37, already has 28 and The Proposal opposite Sandra earn his skydiving license, but it movies under his belt. Bullock. Shortly after the release of was an endeavor gone wrong. On his The Proposal, Reynolds was selected th • Reynolds’ humble beginnings were in 13 jump, his chute malfunctioned, as People magazine’s 2010 Sexiest Vancouver, British Columbia, where coming out vertically rather than Man Alive. his father was a food wholesaler and the normal horizontal. Fortunately, his mother worked in retail. Reynolds he had a reserve chute, and safely • Reynolds’ romantic life has been himself worked in a grocery store in landed eight miles away from the filled with a series of lovely ladies. his youth. drop zone. The incident left him with From 2004 to 2007, he was engaged a fear of flying and a vow never to to a fellow Canadian, singer Alanis • At age 15, Reynolds was cast in a teen skydive again. Morissette. Shortly after their soap called Hillside in Canada, and breakup, Reynolds became engaged known as Fifteen in the U.S. He also • Reynolds got his first break at age 21 to actress Scarlett Johansson, and co-starred in the TV movie Sabrina in the role of med student Berg Bergen four months later, the couple tied the the Teenage Witch during his youth. in Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place. knot in a private ceremony in British The story of three Boston University • Since he failed his high school drama Columbia in September, 2008. By students sharing an apartment ran class, it didn’t seem like he was December, 2010, the marriage was from 1998 to 2001, and Reynolds destined for a big career in movies, over. While filming Green Lantern, appeared in 81 episodes. but at age 20, fellow Vancouver actor in which Reynolds portrayed the DC Chris William Martin convinced • Reynolds hit the big screen in 2002 Comics crime-fighting superhero, he Reynolds to head to Los Angeles. with Van Wilder, which led him to first met his co-star Blake Lively. They Reynolds loaded up his Jeep, and on roles in Harold and Kumar Go to were married on a South Carolina the pair’s first night in L.A., the Jeep White Castle and as a vampire hunter plantation in September of 2012. was vandalized. He drove it for the in Blade: Trinity. It was a slow but
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• Reynolds’ charitable work revolves around research for Parkinson’s Disease, spurred on by his father’s diagnosis with the disease. Reynolds is on the board of directors of the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Disease, and he ran in the 2008 New York City marathon on behalf of this organization. • Two out of three of Reynolds’ older brothers are police officers in Canada – one of them is a Royal Canadian Mounted Police member. On the subject of Canada’s favorite sport, Reynolds has joked, “I’m not a hockey fan, which is probably why I had to leave Canada in the first place.”
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BREAKFAST (continued): It’s now the third largest producer of cereals in the United States with 1,400 employees and annual sales topping $750 million. The number of varieties has grown from one hot farina cereal to 28 bagged types. • Many breakfast cereals have an animated mascot as their “spokesman.” Tony the Tiger became the official mascot of Kellogg’s new cereal Frosted Flakes in 1951. In 1955, Trix hit the grocers’ shelves, with a silly rabbit constantly trying to get children to give him a bowl of the cereal. He’s always been told, “Trix are for kids.” When Trix entered the market, it was composed of more than 46% sugar! Linus the Lionhearted was invented to peddle Post’s Crispy Critters in 1963 and in 1964, Post Sugar Crisp had a soft-spoken, cuddly bear named Sugar Bear touting its product.
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Canadian Tid-bits ▶ The youngest recipient of the Victoria Cross was Thomas Ricketts, who was just 17 years old when he received the honor for bravery exhibited during World War I. ▶ In an April Fool’s Day radio broadcast in 1988, expert Dr. Frederick Farben (really a radio station employee) told listeners all about color allergies, where people can be allergic to the color red, blue, or yellow. The Inuit are immune, he said, because they live in a mono-chromatic environment. ▶ The scientific name for puffin, fraterculaarctica, means ‘little brother of the arctic.’ The birds’ colorful bills and feet, which fade in the winter and brighten in the spring, help puffins assess potential mates. Puffins have the ability to carry several fish in their beaks at one time. They push the fish to the back of their mouth with their tongue, where ridges at the top of their bill secure the fish in place. This allows puffins to keep their mouth open to catch more fish without losing any in the process. In general, they can hold around 10 fish in their beak at once.
• Keep cut veggies crunchy by lining a plastic or glass storage dish with coffee filters before adding the vegetables, like carrot sticks and celery. • Got a child going off to college? Before you leave campus, go together to the health center, and make sure your kid knows who to call/where to go for emergency or urgent care, both on campus and off. Not knowing could cause a delay in getting care, turning a bad situation worse. • According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, “Each 12-ounce soft drink contains approximately 10 teaspoons of sugar and 150 calories. Drinking just one can of soda a day increases a child’s risk of obesity by 60 percent.” Talk to your children about making smart choices both in the lunch line and at the vending machines. • Returning to school can mean returning to sports after a summer hiatus. Be smart, and follow these guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics: Give yourself at least one recovery day off each week; be sure you are wearing the proper gear and that it’s properly fitted; don’t forget to cross-train (general exercises to strengthen your muscles and keep you flexible); take breaks and hydrate to avoid overheating; and have your coach reinforce the proper technique and safety rules. • Got memorabilia? Use a reasonably sized plastic storage bin for each child. Include folders noting each school grade for art and important academic papers. It can be a very special collection that you can give to your child when he or she is an adult.
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