What is the history of the combination of milk and cereal?
Well..cereal they way you are asking is in refernce to cold cereal mixed with milk. The wiki info pasted next helps explain the birth of the american cold cereal. Cold cereal is largely an American invention, but its popularity has spread throughout the world. Companies such as Kellogg’s and Nestlé market their cold cereals around the globe. [edit] The Kellogg brothers’ contribution Breakfast cereals have their root in the temperance movement in the United States in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Americans were still eating a full German breakfast of eggs, bacon, sausage, and beef, with very little fiber. As a result, many people suffered painful and debilitating gastrointestinal disorders. The first breakfast cereal, Granula (named after granules) was invented in 1863 by James Caleb Jackson, operator of the Jackson Sanitorium in Dansville, New York and a staunch vegetarian. Despite its high fiber content, the cereal never became popular. It was far too inconvenient, as th
