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Henry D. Perky forever changed the face of breakfast<\/a> when he received a patent for shredded wheat on this day in history, Aug. 1, 1893.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Ohio-born Perky \u2014 later a resident of Denver via Nebraska \u2014 first devised shredded wheat in 1892, according to the shredded wheat fan site that goes by the name, “I love shredded wheat.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Said the site, “He took his idea of a product made of boiled wheat to his friend, William H. Ford, in Watertown, New York \u2014 a machinist by trade.”<\/p>\n

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The two then devised a machine that would create the “biscuit” of shredded wheat<\/a>, which was then baked into a cereal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Initially, Perky did not plan on entering the food business. He wanted to sell the machines, the website indicated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Perky was a “devout vegetarian<\/a>,” said Smithsonian Magazine.<\/p>\n

He promoted the concept that eating simpler foods led to a healthier life<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While commonly associated with breakfast, shredded wheat \u2014 or rather, the shredded wheat biscuit \u2014 was meant to be a food choice that could be eaten during any meal, said the same source. <\/p>\n

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“The biscuits were a health food that could be pared with mushrooms or even sardines,” said the magazine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Initially, neither the biscuit-making machines nor the shredded wheat biscuits themselves caught on with the public.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Eventually, people began eating shredded wheat, egged on partially by claims that the food was the “wonder of the ages” and could solve a multitude of health issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Perky, who would open The Boston Shredded Cereal Food Company in the 1890s, said, “I love shredded wheat.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The company would expand to Worcester in 1895 before moving again to Niagara Falls in 1901.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Shredded wheat would go international in 1904.<\/p>\n

The company built another factory on the Canadian side of the Niagara Falls, said the website. In 1925, a factory opened in England.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite its American origins, shredded wheat remains extremely popular in the United Kingdom, in part due to a series of ad campaigns.<\/p>\n

“A newspaper advert in 1902 described it as \u2018a relief from the monotony of everlasting porridge,\u2019 while, by 1943, it was \u2018an ideal food for all war workers,\u2019” said the BBC.<\/p>\n

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In the more modern era, shredded wheat was described in British advertisements as “simple, honest goodness” and as a reliable go-to food item.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One ad campaign was even cited by then-outgoing Prime Minister David Cameron<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2015, Cameron told the BBC that he would not seek a third term as prime minister.<\/p>\n

He said, “Terms are like Shredded Wheat \u2014 two are wonderful but three might just be too many.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/lifestyle\/this-day-history-august-1-1893-shredded-wheat-patented-wonder-ages <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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