Cereal is everywhere nowadays, but how did it become a thing? For most of us, this stuff is the ultimate convenient breakfast, and even the most sugary varieties claim to offer nutritional benefits and a balanced start to your day -- even if those claims may be a bit... misleading. In the first part of this two-part series, Ben, Noel and Max dive deep into the (at times bizarre) origin story of modern breakfast cereal.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Inventor of the Saxophone Had Some of the World's Worst Luck
Animals On Trial, Part 2: Legal Personhood "Goes Wild"
Animals On Trial, Part 1: Tons of Animals Went to Kangaroo Courts
Broken Arrows, Part 2: In Which Actions Have Consequence
Broken Arrows, Part 1: Whoops, Where's Our Nuke?
New Providence: That Time Pirates Had A Government
Tons of People Married Their First Cousins
Lost Media, Part 2: The Magnificent Ambersons
The Ridiculous History of "Snake Oil"
Badass of the Week, Part 2: Rise of the Kung Fu Werewolf
Badass of the Week, Part 1: An Origin Story
That Time Abe Lincoln Trolled His Way Into a Real-life Duel
The Creation of (and Backlash Against) Father's Day
Colorado's Ridiculous, Disturbingly Corrupt 1904 Election, Part Two: Everyone Resigns
Colorado's Ridiculous, Disturbingly Corrupt 1904 Election, Part One: Let's Jump Off The Train
How Horrible Chocolate Helped Win World War II
Micronations: How a Guy Got Ran Out of Town and Created San Marino
The Library of Congress is Full of Super Weird Stuff
That Time A Guy Literally Bought The London Bridge
We Got Super Into Toy Cars, Part Two: Rivalry and Nostalgia
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know
Stuff You Should Know
The Rest Is History
Stuff You Missed in History Class
Aaron Mahnke’s Cabinet of Curiosities