All the the health nut stuff in this movie was pretty fun, but I was surprised to see the idea of fake meat back in the 30's. (When Arthur orders a steak and gets one made of "vegetables and mashed nuts").
I know things weren't primitive back then, but vegetarian restaurants with faux steak, who'da thunk?
"Wake up John Doe. You're the hope of the world."
Agreed, i was so suprised to see a veggie-steak. I though i was in modern day l.a when that scene came up.
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Vegetarian restaurants have existed since the 1880s.
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That is pretty fascinating.
fyi, author Mary Shelley and her husband, poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, were both vegetarians. She even set the monster in her novel Frankenstein as a vegetarian.
But a vegatarian lifestyle goes even further back in time than theirs.
Saw this on GetTV and thought I'd see what IMDB had to say about it.
First and foremost, Battle Creek Sanitarium, run by John Harvey Kellogg, was primarily vegetarian. Back in 1902, when it opened (actually purchased by Kellogg and renamed), a sanitarium was a resort people went to improve their health. This is also where "corn flakes" originated, as that cereal was one of the items J.H. Kellogg offered his customers. The word, sanatorium was a place where injured soldiers went to get well. J.H. Kellogg changed two letter in the word to coin the word "sanitarium."
J.H.'s brother, William Keith Kellogg, took the recipe for corn flakes and made a business out of it. It's also interesting to note that Charles William Post, of Post Cereals, was also a patient there.
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I read a novel years ago which is all about the Kellogg brothers and the Battle Creek Sanitarium. It's called "The Road to Wellville," by T. C. Boyle. It was made into a movie starring Anthony Hopkins, Bridget Fonda, Matthew Broderick, John Cusack, and Dana Carvey. As I recall, I thought the book was better than the movie. Anyway, it was very interesting to learn about the genesis of the breakfast cereal industry.
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