Up until the 1860s, most people ate eggs, bacon, and sausage every morning. That is until cereal emerged as a healthier alternative at the end of the 19th century. The invention of one of the most famous brands of cereal was actually an accident. In 1877, two brothers – John Harvey Kellogg and Will Keith Kellogg – were experimenting with food made with boiled wheat. They left a batch out overnight and returned to find it stale. Instead of throwing it away, they rolled it out and discovered that each wheat berry formed its own flake. So they tried the same process with corn, and created the first dry breakfast cereal, which we now know as Kellogg’s Corn Flakes. And the rest, as they say…was history!