MISummerFun23 - MI Inventions - Cereal Traditional Cache

Welcome to the second MI_SUMMER_FUN series. The 2023 season focuses on Michigan Inventions. Hopefully you enjoy our series. This year, we have 16 total caches; 15 traditional hides plus a bonus cache. To find the bonus cache, be sure to take note of the bonus information at each of the stops. Be sure to record the punctuation and capitalization correctly. At the end, plug everything into the phrase shown below and the bonus coordinates should be revealed!

John Harvey Kellogg was in charge of the Battle Creek (MI) Sanitarium. He was a skilled surgeon and health food pioneer. Kellogg’s brother, Will Keith Kellogg, worked with him at the sanitarium. Together, the brothers tried to come up with breakfast items more wholesome and easier on the bowels than meat. They experimented with boiling wheat and rolling it into sheets, then grinding it. One evening in 1894, they forgot about a pot of wheat and the next morning, rolled it out anyway. The wheat berries didn’t cohere into a sheet but rather emerged as hundreds of flakes. The Kellogg brothers toasted the flakes – and the rest is breakfast history.

W.K. Kellogg was something of a marketing genius. When his brother wouldn’t go big with their endeavor – fearing it would damage his reputation as a doctor – Will bought him out and, in 1906, started packaging corn and wheat flakes for sale.