Post by Verbivore on Jun 5, 2008 9:30:41 GMT
Something to ponder over breakfast, perhaps ... .
We have long had hoover, biro, and coke.
In the thread "How many ways to misuse the apostrophe?" not-the-aps.proboards81.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=74&page=5#2128 we wandered onto breakfast cereals and the generic term weeties.
Some etymology:
Here is the alleged history of that term. www.wheaties.com/history/index.aspx.
Local (Oz) usage and references:
Here in Oz, it is most likely to refer to a wheat-flake-based breakfast biscuit: a Weet-Bix, a Vita-Brit, or the occasional (passing) other-brand attempt at making an edible (sort-of) house brick.
The Weet-Bix (Oz) and Weetabix (UK) brand-names are part of the worldwide so-called "health food" industry that trades under many names - including the Oz-based Sanitarium Health Foods - all based on the 19th century health-and-diet work of Dr JH Kellogg (a Millerite Seventh-Day Adventist at the time of "The Great Disappointment"), and many owned and operated as commercial arms of the SDA church. (For some light amusement, see the movie / read the book The Road to Wellville en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Wellville.)
Kellogg invented the corn flake - and subsequently much of the breakfast-cereal and health-food industry. One of his alleged motives in designing the cornflake was to reduce the libido of dirty, lustful, hormonally challenged adolescent males and thereby prevent their tendencies to "self abuse" (which Kellogg believed "drains the body of life").
So, next time you're snap-crackle-popping your breakfast, ask yourself where your libido has gone ...
We have long had hoover, biro, and coke.
In the thread "How many ways to misuse the apostrophe?" not-the-aps.proboards81.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=74&page=5#2128 we wandered onto breakfast cereals and the generic term weeties.
Some etymology:
Here is the alleged history of that term. www.wheaties.com/history/index.aspx.
Local (Oz) usage and references:
Here in Oz, it is most likely to refer to a wheat-flake-based breakfast biscuit: a Weet-Bix, a Vita-Brit, or the occasional (passing) other-brand attempt at making an edible (sort-of) house brick.
The Weet-Bix (Oz) and Weetabix (UK) brand-names are part of the worldwide so-called "health food" industry that trades under many names - including the Oz-based Sanitarium Health Foods - all based on the 19th century health-and-diet work of Dr JH Kellogg (a Millerite Seventh-Day Adventist at the time of "The Great Disappointment"), and many owned and operated as commercial arms of the SDA church. (For some light amusement, see the movie / read the book The Road to Wellville en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Wellville.)
Kellogg invented the corn flake - and subsequently much of the breakfast-cereal and health-food industry. One of his alleged motives in designing the cornflake was to reduce the libido of dirty, lustful, hormonally challenged adolescent males and thereby prevent their tendencies to "self abuse" (which Kellogg believed "drains the body of life").
So, next time you're snap-crackle-popping your breakfast, ask yourself where your libido has gone ...