No More Cereal City

People of a certain age instinctively know that Battle Creek, Michigan, is home to Kellogg's cereal. Well, maybe it's not entirely instinct. We sat through myriad TV commercials that told us exactly that, not to mention the announced sponsorships of our favorite TV programs. So to some of us, Battle Creek seemed a magical place.

Several years ago, when driving from Chicago to Toronto or Detroit or some such, we drove through Battle Creek and noticed that Kellogg's had a museum--no, a celebration!--of cereal. Although we didn't have time to stop that day, we quickly arranged to make another visit to Cereal City. As a breakfast cereal afficionado almost since birth, I was in heaven. I could learn the history of how breakfast cereal developed, I watch some of those aforementioned TV commercials, or even have a handful of corn flakes hot off the assembly line (contrary to anything you might've expected, they're delicious). We went back to Cereal City a number of times and recommended it to anyone we knew who'd be in spitting distance of Battle Creek. Unfortunately, I heard last week that Kellogg's had closed Cereal City earlier this year. I never got a chance to check it out before a little while ago, but it appears to be true. This site confirms it but hasn't yet deleted the write up that already existed, so if you never made it to Battle Creek, you can see what you missed.

Goodbye, Cereal City. I'll miss you!