Many of the best and worst discoveries are accidents…like my
new coffee-flavored tea beverage!
In 1894, John and Keith Kellogg accidentally left boiled wheat sitting out, and it turned stale. An attempt to roll it out into sheets of dough resulted in flakes. Experimenting with different grains produced flakes made of corn meal, and Corn Flakes were born.
In 1945, Percy Spencer was experimenting on a magnetron for the Raytheon Corporation when a chocolate bar in his pocket melted. This was the first microwave oven.
Chef George Crum was working at Moon's Lakehouse in upstate New York back in 1853. A customer had ordered fried potatoes, and continually sent them back to the kitchen for being too soggy. Out of spite, Chef Crum sliced the potatoes into wafers as thin as possible, fried them in hot grease, and poured salt over them. The first potato chips were a massive hit, later dubbed Saratoga Chips.
In 1928, Sir Alexander Fleming was researching a wonder drug that could cure multiple diseases. Upon failing, and throwing away his used petri dishes, Sir Fleming noticed that one dish contained mold that was dissolving all of the bacteria around it. The mold gave rise to Penicillin.
In 1965, chemist James M. Schlatter was trying to invent a new anti-ulcer medication. His discovery did nothing to combat ulcers, but it did taste very sweet, and was thereby called Aspartame, later dubbed "Nutrasweet."
In 2014, Engineer Jeremy forgot to clean the coffee grounds out of his coffee maker. He was trying to make hot water for tea. Placing a tea bag under the spout, hot water poured over the used grounds and into his cup, creating the first hybrid coffee/vanilla caramel tea blend. It smelled pretty awful and tasted worse. The bulk of the beverage ended up going straight down the bathroom sink, never to be heard from again.
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