March 7, 2022 - National Flapjack Day | National Cereal Day

Welcome to March 7th, 2022 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate breakfast favorites piled high or in a bowl. If you enjoy flapjacks for breakfast, be sure to check your surroundings before ordering some. Here in the United States, a flapjack is another name for a pancake. The word is simply a regional name. But if you are in England, make sure to choose your words carefully. Over there, a pancake is very similar to our version. However, a flapjack is an entirely different thing. British flapjacks are baked in an oven and made from a mixture of oats, sugar, butter, and syrup. They’re closer to what we call granola bars. On National Flapjack Day, enjoy a stack with melted butter and syrup or any regional favorite of your own. If your mother ever dragged you along to the grocery store, then a trip down the cereal aisle made it all worthwhile. But the brightly colored boxes promising a toy inside did not start out that exciting at all. And while Kellogg's Corn Flakes were the first to put a prize inside the box in 1909, they were originally designed to be boring. Dr. John Harvey Kellogg believed that a bland diet would curb our sinful human nature. The cereal later took a ride aboard Apollo 11, where it was formed into cubes to be eaten without milk. Few other cereals have traveled this distance, though some have enough sugar to rocket your kids to the moon and back. On National Cereal Day, celebrate your inner child with a bowl full of crunchy goodness. I’m Anna Devere and I’m Marlo Anderson. Thanks for joining us as we Celebrate Every Day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices