The candy aroma of childhood lingers over Battle Creek, Michigan.
Dubbed Cereal Metropolis USA, it’s the house of what’s now a worldwide breakfast staple, boxed cereal. Beloved manufacturers reminiscent of Kellogg’s Rice Krispies and Submit Fruity Pebbles are nonetheless made right here.
March 7 is Nationwide Cereal Day. However each day is cereal day on this small metropolis in southwest Michigan, on the confluence of Battle Creek and the Kalamazoo River.
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The birthplace of breakfast cereal is, naturally, an incredible place for a weekend away with the household.
“It’s fairly magical once you get the candy, fruity scent, the maple syrup scent, of cereal throughout town,” Annie Kelley, spokesperson for the Calhoun County Guests Bureau in Battle Creek, instructed Fox Information Digital.
The Nationwide Cereal Competition is a practice in Battle Creek, Michigan courting again greater than a half century. It takes place every year on the second Saturday of June. (Calhoun County Guests Bureau)
C.W. Submit based what was then referred to as the Postum Cereal Co. in Battle Creek in 1895, providing what was then a cereal-based drink, and launched Grape-Nuts dry cereal in 1897.
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W.Ok. Kellogg based the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Co. in 1906, after creating the primary batch of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes.
“Folks of my era grew up both a Kellogg household or a Submit household,” stated Kelley, proudly touting that “mine was a Kellogg household.”
The Battle Creek, Michigan Welcome Middle. Battle Creek is named Cereal Metropolis USA. Cereal makers Submit and Kellogg’s nonetheless make among the nation’s favourite cereal manufacturers in Battle Creek. (Annie J. Kelley, Calhoun County Guests Bureau)
The Cereal Historical past Exhibit touts native lore on the Battle Creek Welcome Middle, whereas providing picture ops with Tony the Tiger of Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes fame.
The Nationwide Cereal Competition, which dates again greater than 50 years, is held the second Saturday of June and “highlights Battle Creek’s heritage because the birthplace of the cereal trade,” in response to the Kellogg Area web site.
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The 2024 pageant takes place on June 8.
The lifetime of a cereal titan is explored on the W.Ok. Kellogg Manor Home in neighboring Hickory Corners.
Kellogg’s Cereal Metropolis USA signal, Battle Creek, Michigan. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Common Photographs Group through Getty Photographs)
Households can feed giraffes at Binder Park Zoo, come head to head with reptilian pals on the Critchlow Alligator Sanctuary in neighboring Athens and go to the Fantasy Forest and Kaleidoscope Backyard at Leila Arboretum.
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Cornwell’s Turkeyville USA in Marshall, in the meantime, is “a 400-acre farm the place turkey is king.”
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Cornwell’s presents turkey buffet, country-store reward store, baked items, dinner theater, cooking lessons, comedy reveals, flea markets, Civil Struggle re-enactments and a contemporary RV park for campers.
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