I was talking with some people the other day, when somehow the conversation got moved to breakfast cereal. One of the kids told us about these shredded wheat biscuits. I don't know why it's so funny to me, but I find it absolutely hilarious that they make these so big. I did a spit take when he said they have giant shredded wheat pieces. A shredded wheat biscuit comes in 10 oz. or 15 oz. sizes, and you just pour milk on it and wait for the it to get soggy, then cut it with your spoon to eat it. The whole thing, at first sounded fairly unappealing to me, but I do like mini-wheat pieces, so maybe I'll try it sometime.
Now for a history of Shredded Wheat, provided by Wikipedia:
US
Henry Perky invented shredded wheat cereal in 1893. The wheat is first cooked in water until its moisture content reaches about 50%. It is then tempered, allowing moisture to diffuse evenly into the grain. The grain then passes through a set of rollers with grooves in one side, yielding a web of shredded wheat strands. Many webs are stacked together, and this moist stack of strands is crimped at regular intervals to produce individual pieces of cereal with the strands attached at each end. These then go into an oven, where they are baked until their moisture content is reduced to 5%. The Natural Food Company was based at Niagara Falls, NY in 1901. It became the Shredded Wheat Company in 1904. It was bought by Nabisco (National Biscuit Company) in December 1928. US production moved to Naperville in Illinois in 1954, where it is still made. In 1993, Nabisco sold the brand to Kraft General Foods, but it was still under the Nabisco name until 1999, whereupon it was given by the phrase "Nabisco brought to you by Post". Canadian production has been at Niagara Falls, Ontario, since 1904 due to nearby hydro-electric power. US production is also at Niagara Falls, Ontario. Until recently, US production took place in Niagara Falls, New York, but that factory was closed to consolidate the two factories.
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