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1993 • 23 seasons • Documentary • TV-PG
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Episode 52 — Cereal: History in a Bowl

Released: 2005-09-14 • Documentary
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Move over pancakes, step aside bacon! Cereal is arguably the true breakfast king, a $9-billion industry with an indisputable place in pop-culture history. Full of surprise, nostalgia, and fascinating facts, our special celebrates the colorful–and crunchy–saga of a distinctly American breakfast. We see how a Presbyterian minister-turned-health-food-fanatic–Sylvester Graham, of “Graham cracker” fame–turned his countrymen from fried pork breakfasts to grain- and bran-heavy diets in 1824. We reveal the rivalries, tricks, and accidents that turned cereal into a breakfast sensation. And we examine the amazing feats of marketing used to promote the product–from creating iconic characters for packaging, to ingenious prizes that drove consumers to the shelves in droves.

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Episode air date14.09.2005
Episode runtime44 min
Episode rating0.00
GenresDocumentary
TMDB series rating8.1
IMDb series rating8.1
Series statusReturning series
Age rating6+
CountryUS