Who actually had the idea of filling a schnitzel with ham and cheese? And what do cornflakes have to do with masturbation? The bizarre origin stories behind dishes that have become global success.
At the end of the 19th century, humanity was going downhill. They overexploited the body: they drank, played quartz, whored. That was a thorn in the side of doctor John Harvey Kellogg. In the Battle Creek Sanatorium, which was already controversial at the time, he wanted to detoxify people, put a stop to licentiousness and also take action against masturbation. He tinkered and experimented, but in the end it was chance that made an invention possible that was to change breakfast culture worldwide. We reveal in the photo series what it is all about. There we also tell many other bizarre, sometimes adventurous stories about the origins of dishes without which a world would no longer be conceivable today.