What was the name of the man who invented Shredded Wheat in 1893 ? Was it Charles E Pinky or Henry D Perky?
Shredded wheat in 1993 through its parent company, Kraft Foods, buying it from its long-time producer Nabisco. Kellogg's sells eight varieties of miniature, or bite-sized, shredded wheat cereal. Natural and organic manufacturer Barbara's Bakery makes an all-natural version of shredded wheat. In the United Kingdom, the Shredded Wheat brand is owned by Cereal Partners, a Nestlé/General Mills company, although there are many generic versions and variants by different names. It was first made in the United States in 1893, while UK production began in 1926. Henry Perky invented shredded wheat cereal in Denver, Colorado, in 1890. Inspired by his observation of a
Shredded wheat in 1915, and Kellogg's Shredded Wheat was born. This provoked National Biscuit Company to sue Kellogg for trademark infringement, attempting to enjoin him from using "Shredded Wheat" as a trade name and from manufacturing the cereal in its pillow-shaped form. This series of litigations led to the United States Supreme Court case "Kellogg Co. v. National Biscuit Co." in 1938. The Supreme Court ruled that "shredded wheat" was generic and not trademarkable; and that in any case, when the first patent for shredded wheat machinery expired in 1912, the right to apply the name "shredded wheat" to the product passed