Why the chicken on cornflakes box?

Many wonder what the picture of a chicken is doing on a box of cornflakes.

Then some of the many conclude that this cornflakes has egg in it and is therefore not pure vegetarian.

Then few of the some of the many start beef rumours and those few are eventually killed off.

Relax vegetarians, not like Coco-Pops is made with monkey poop or Frosties made with tiger cubs.

This is the Kellogg's cornflakes box.

That is not a chicken, its a rooster.

What do roosters do? They crow in the mornings.

Mornings - meaning breakfast - meaning Kellogg's Corn Flakes.

That was the idea, later they moved to different mascots for their other cereals.

Another interesting story is that Mr. Kellogg, the guy who came up with this was Welsh and Kellogg sounds like a Welsh word 'Ceiliog' which means rooster and so his wife suggested to have the rooster on the box - unlikely but interesting.

Confusions of the world - Philippines

There are many words associated with the place Philippines:

You have - Philippines, Filipino, Filipina, Pilipino ... 

What is with all the spellings!

So here is how it is:

Philippines was earlier called : Las Islas Filipinas thanks to this dude whose name in Spanish was Felipe II de España. After a while the Americans landed and figured - "hey! the country's name is spelt wrong .. in our .. umm .. mother tongue(?), its spelt "Philip" .. So then the country's name became Philippines. 

But by then, the people born in the Island of Finipinas were already called Filipinos. This worked well for the race which could make the 'F' sound. But the locals couldn't really pronounce F.. The max that came out of their mouths was a P. (I'm sure you've been asked if you would like some Prench Pries to go...? or Puck you...?). So that explains Pilipinos. 

Now they really needed a language that all of Philippines could call 'National'. So then came the language Filipino which was basically Tagalog + (more stuff from the world). The letter F is a part of the language Filipino but not a part of Tagalog (Even if no one bothers to pronounce it). So that explains Filipino.

Women didn't feel sexy enough when they were referred to as Filipino. So they figured that they were to be given a separate oomph factor. And that explains Filipina.

So in summary we have:

Philippines - the country (pronounced with a F sound if you can .. else P sound)

Filipino - a male from Philippines (pronounced with a P by the locals and F by whoever can make F sounds)

Filipina - a female from Philippines (pronounced with a P by the locals and the world has no idea about this word)

Filipino - the national language of Philippines 

Pilipino - is that mispronounced word which everyone understands.

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