The photograph [right] was taken in 1928, it looks pretty much the same today.

You can see in the photograph a big hopper on the roof of the factory, I used to tell my kids that the hopper is the cannon where the Puffed Wheat was shot to make it puffy.

The Quaker factory sometimes emits the most amazing smell, a soft, warm, wheaty odor that is distinctive to Peterborough.It always make me hungry.

Quaker Oats Company

 

The Quaker Oats Company has a large factory located on the Otonabee River in my home town, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.

 

 

Quaker Oats Company

Kellogs Corn Flakes Believe it or not, the world famous cereal flake arrived completely by accident.
W.K. and Dr. Kellogg were constantly experimenting with different production techniques and made a major step forward when they decided to run boiled wheat dough through rollers which enabled them to produce thin sheets of wheat.
To take the process a stage further, they then decided to toast the sheets and grind them into meal and this is how they discovered wheat flakes.

www.kelloggs.co.uk