FWIW,Kellogs is recalling Corn Flakes,so watch what you eat

http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/news/052...20_recall.html

 

I got up before breakfast this morning I put on the coffee and power up the PC to check my fav truck site while I pour my flakie-wakies and there in grey and black I find this post. Horror of horrors! Cornelius has a black eye? The sweetheart of the corn has turned wormie? Tell me it ain't so. I read and reread the link. Thank goodness it's just the 18oz size, mine is the 24oz and it's just a carton labeling mistake. But then I read the side panel of MY box. You know at the nutrition info, I discover it says "Corn used in this product contains traces of soybeans." It's like reading the hot-dog wrapper

 

That may be because when they rotate crops, the beans that get dropped during harvest grow wild the following year. They're just covering liability.

 

Now there's something you don't see everyday.

 

I hope this doesn't hurt Kellogg's financially. Snap, Krackle and/or Pop could be laid off, or have they retired? Wouldn't it be ironic if they have and are DTR members towing their 5th wheels around the US during their golden years?

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Think about what you just said for a moment. Putting aside the liability issue, how does a soybean become a flake? I'm not sure it's possible. Wouldn't a soybean treated like a grain of corn come out entirely different "looking" than a flake from a grain of corn? But perhaps everything in corn flakes is not from the grain. Maybe everything in the hopper gets crushed together, be it bean or grain (or weed), and then "flaked", so it all would look the same as long as there wasn't more beans than corn. Is corn bought to make flakes rotated only with soybeans? I doubt it. I imagine some farmers rotate other crops too. Perhaps the cereal box should more accurately read "may contain traces of soybeans, oats, wheat, barely, or peanuts". Maybe someone who used to work at Battle Creek can chime in? Nat