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Grape-Nuts is a brand of breakfast cereal made from flour, salt and dried yeast, developed in 1897 by C. W. Post, a former patient and later competitor of the 19th-century breakfast food innovator Dr. John Harvey Kellogg. Post's original product was baked as a rigid sheet, then broken into pieces and run through a coffee grinder.
A 1974 television commercial for Post Grape-Nuts cereal featured him asking viewers, "Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible." While he recommended Grape Nuts over pine trees (including the oft-repeated quote that Grape Nuts' taste reminded him "of wild hickory nuts"), the commercials gained attention and fueled Gibbons's celebrity status.
In 1904, he followed up the Grape-Nuts label with a brand of corn flakes, which was first called Elijah's Manna before being renamed Post Toasties in 1908. [6] The British government refused to allow Post to market his cereal in the United Kingdom using the name Elijah's Manna, stating that it was sacrilegious. [7]
[citation needed] Georgians usually make churchkhela in autumn when the primary ingredients, grapes and nuts, are harvested. It is a string of walnut halves that have been dipped in grape juice called tatara or phelamushi (grape juice thickened with flour), and dried in the sun. [27] No sugar is added to make real churchkhela. Instead of ...
While there, he grew deeply impressed with their all-grain diet. Upon his release, he began experimenting with grain products, beginning with an all-grain coffee substitute called Postum. In 1897 (or 1898) he introduced Grape-nuts, the concentrated cereal with a nutty flavor (containing neither grapes nor nuts). Good business sense ...
Granula could be described as being a larger and tougher version of the somewhat similar later cereal Grape-Nuts. [2] However, it consisted primarily of bran-rich graham flour made into nugget shapes. The cereal had to be soaked overnight before it could be eaten. [4] The cereal was manufactured from a dough of graham flour rolled into sheets ...
Grape-Nuts Flakes Claudia and David is an American old-time radio drama. One version was broadcast on CBS July 4, 1941 – September 26, 1941 [ 1 ] and another was syndicated in 1947.
This article states: "At one time, Grape-Nuts was the seventh-most popular cold breakfast cereal, but sales declined as Post was sold from one company to another ...