# BBC on how British eating habits have changed over the years

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-on-how-british-eating-habits-have-changed-over-the-years/652674>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 12, 2013, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-on-how-british-eating-habits-have-changed-over-the-years/652674 "2013-03-12T02:02:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-on-how-british-eating-habits-have-changed-over-the-years/652674/1 "2013-03-12T02:02:47Z")

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Interesting stuff - all the way back to the Romans!: [Breakfast, lunch and dinner: Have we always eaten them? - BBC News](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20243692)

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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-on-how-british-eating-habits-have-changed-over-the-years/652674/2 "2013-03-12T02:19:44Z")

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Makes me think of Supersizers, the show where they eat like a certain era in British history.

They need to make more of those.

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**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-on-how-british-eating-habits-have-changed-over-the-years/652674/3 "2013-03-12T03:38:12Z")

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The article is wrong about John Harvey Kellogg “accidently” discovering corn flakes. He did not leave it out and it went stale. Dr Kellogg was trying to find a way for people with problematic teeth to eat whole wheat crackers or zweibach to get the benefit of the bran.

Honestly, do people think that everything is discovered by accident?

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2013, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bbc-on-how-british-eating-habits-have-changed-over-the-years/652674/4 "2013-03-12T12:15:37Z")

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> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#):
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> The article is wrong about John Harvey Kellogg “accidently” discovering corn flakes. He did not leave it out and it went stale. Dr Kellogg was trying to find a way for people with problematic teeth to eat whole wheat crackers or zweibach to get the benefit of the bran.
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> Honestly, do people think that everything is discovered by accident?

As I’ve read it, it certainly was a “mistake”. He was, indeed, working on developing a new form of food, but it was not his intention to leave the mush in that condition for so long. When he found that it had been, he decided to process it anyway, and was surprised at the result. The corn flakes were the result of intentional processing, but the actual procedure was not as planned, and was an "accident’ from that point of view.

[http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/kellogg.html](http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/kellogg.html)

[http://www.scribd.com/doc/18019024/The-Accidental-discovery-of-cornflakes](http://www.scribd.com/doc/18019024/The-Accidental-discovery-of-cornflakes)

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