PugJesus"Your diet is too spicy; try eating bland foods and maybe you'll masturbate less, SINNER!"
Explanation: John Kellogg invented corn flakes, a popular form of breakfast cereal.
… one of the rationales of John’s culinary thinking was that a simple and bland diet would reduce sexual desire and masturbation.
Funny enough, his brother, William Kellogg (featured here, and the founder of the company which now bears the name), was actually the one who added other ingredients to it so it would actually have some sort of taste.
John Kellogg was not thrilled about the addition.
lime!i’ve heard somewhere that the original idea was to put them in the mattresses of the dormitories at schools so that the boys couldn’t “move around” without making noise. no idea how true that is, but it’s a fun factoid.
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wonderingwandererSounds like an effective way to get mice and roaches.
Also, I shift around a lot when I’m trying to sleep. This would be literal hell for me, especially with some creepy puritan rector out in the hallway accusing me of sin every time I roll onto my side…
jaybone
I Cast FistWith a bit of salt, it tastes like some chips
Frosted mini wheats, on the other hand 🤌
I prefer bran flakes. More fiber, too.
TabbsTheBat (they/them)Kelogg’s cornflakes are the worst cornflakes out of the ones I tried honestly
At least the local off-brand is worse, in my neck of the woods. Mushy, no firmness to them even when they’re dry.
Kellogg’s to me just tasted of nothing but raw starch and basically instantly turned to mush in milk. So I suppose it depends on where you are :3
I think there are generally two kinds of cereal eaters.
First, there are those who enjoy crunchy cereal. They can’t get enough of putting that hard firm stuff into their mouths. The more extreme will even go so far as to put Grape Nuts in. The milk is almost an afterthought, and sometimes they even put it in dry, just to see what it’s like.
Second, are those who enjoy limp, flaccid cereals. These ones are after the milk more than the cereal, if you know what I mean. They make sure that everything becomes a sloppy mess, and they don’t stop until they can greedily slurp up every drop.
FuglyDuck…These ones are after the milk more than the cereal, if you know what I mean. They make sure that everything becomes a sloppy mess, and they don’t stop until they can greedily slurp up every drop.
are we still talking about cereal?
What else could we possibly be talking about?
Oh you need to be careful with those kinds of thoughts. If you fetishize cereal, then what could you eat to control your sexual urges?
New copypasta just dropped.
probably designed to kill you sex drive.
Certainly killed something in me :3
AnUnusualRelicYou actually went and tried several corn flakes? I’m oddly impressed.
Well I tried most brands and types of cereals commonly in stores here over the years, not just cornflakes :3. Though cornflakes are probably my favourite cereal type
CruxifuxWeet-bix is better though.
MwaI wonder if they still sell the honey and nut variant of corn flakes, Thats probably was my favourite version.
Im not sure if kellogg’s makes them, but nestle still has honey nut corn flakes :3. Of course then you have support nestle but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Burn the masturbating heretic!
These ones? Crunchy Nut Corn Flakes (wiki link)
They’re still very common in the UK. No idea about anywhere else.
tetris11“The trouble is, they taste too good” was actually intended as a safety warning, rather than an advertising catchphrase.
MinnesotaGoddamhoney bunches of oats is what we see them as
Was John Kellogg also the one who convinced Americans that male circumcision was somehow medically necessary, again as an effort to cut down on masturbation? I think I’ve heard that before.
Yep. He also tried to convince people to destroy the nerve endings on a girls clitoris with acid to avoid, in his words, “abnormal excitement”
RamenJunkieWhy are religious people so against sex?
Potentially schismogenisis at least in the Christian and Muslim traditions. Middle Eastern and European pagans had more comfort with sex. Ultimately this has resulted in a lot of sexual liberation movements coming with rejection of religion. Though you do occasionally get Christians who are super into free love and consider it a part of Christianity.
That said, this is just a guess. I strongly suspect that individuals who are deeply ashamed of their sexual desires or lack thereof latch on to prudish relitions as a justification to try to fix people having sexual desires.
I think it originates from ancient social constructs. Because its very easy for men to knock up women and then abandon them and their child, it became necessary to have social rules to ‘bind’ couples through marriage. And strongly forbid sex outside marriage or adultery. In biblical times, adultery was such a severe crime it was often a death sentence.
These days contraceptives are so widely available it makes zero sense. But it made some sense in early civilizations thousands of years ago when infantcide was a very common practice.
I think it originates from ancient social constructs. Because its very easy for men to knock up women and then abandon them and their child, it became necessary to have social rules to ‘bind’ couples through marriage.
But in most ancient societies, the woman is punished and policed much more harshly than the man.
It’s not really oriented towards keeping men in check.
No doubt misogyny runs deep. But my thoery isnt to keep ‘men in check’ but to prevent unwanted children being born and forced to be murdered because of limited resources.
Also Leviticus 20:10 instructs both the adulter and adultress to put to death equally. Now rather this was actually done in practice… I do not know.
That makes a lot of sense until you look at the evidence. In the epic of Gilgamesh, Shamhat, a sacred prostitute, has sex with Enkidu for a week before introducing him to civilization and then dipping out of his life. We have evidence of varied attitudes on sex at a cultural level around the world. In fact in the middle East we have such a clear picture of a sexually open culture that it’s a relevant question how the attitudes we see in the bible come up so close to Babylon. David Graeber argues that it’s related to the adoption of money in his book Debt, but I really feel that the schismogenetic component is more worth using for the short internet comment level explanation.
and also obsessed with it.
Well they needed a constant supply of ingredients
I love the Kellogg cult! I wish their compound was preserved
my daddy worked three jobs so he’d have enough foreskins to give to the kelloggs and he was proud!
gandalf_der_12teEverybody please note that this is in the History Memes community and not in the NoncredibleWhatever community, because that’s the actual historical reason why cornflakes which are bland af were so widespread.
Well, one of the reasons at least.
Noncredible history would be kinda fun ngl
they weren’t just really bad boxed dandruff sent off to bad children to eat?
xepFunny thing is if you consume sufficient carbohydrates over a long enough period of time then the resultant chronically elevated insulin is a well known correlate with erectile dysfunction. Same with Type 2 Diabetes.
So it works! Extra effective if the cornflakes are frosted.
Kellogg himself was a Seventh Day Adventist and influenced by the work of Ellen G White, who believed that eating meat led to masturbation.