When it comes to cereal, we know about Kellogg’s and Post cereals dominating Battle Creek. But it wasn’t just those two that caused Battle Creek to be named “Cereal City USA”. There were plenty of other cereal companies in the area as well. Some hung around for a while, while others folded quickly.
Most of the other companies were independent, some with limited distribution and most of their names have been lost to time…but they were able to manufacture some unique cereals for the time, such as:
Armour Corn Flakes Chief Corn Flakes Cook’s Flaked Rice Dr.Price’s Corn Flakes E.C. Corn Flakes Egg-O-See Force Grains of Gold Granula Heinz Rice Flakes Korn Kinks Korn-Krisp Malt Breakfast Food Malta-Vita Miller’s Corn Flakes Purity Corn Flakes Rippled Wheat Breakfast Food Sunshine Shredded Wheat Super Cereal Toasted Grain Flakes Uncle Tom Health Food Van Brode Crisp Rice Vigor VitaSpelt Vitos Washington Wheat Flakes Wheatlet Wheato-Naks (Red Ryder)…