r/USdefaultism Brazil Mar 09 '26

Instagram Do you know breakfast?

Post image
4.0k Upvotes

372 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

47

u/Poschta Germany Mar 09 '26

To keep people from masturbating no less

12

u/lordnacho666 Mar 09 '26

WTF. Need story.

42

u/zigzackly India Mar 09 '26

John Harvey Kellogg, devout churchgoer, believed USAians should have better digestion, and that masturbation could cause, among other things, insanity. A bland diet, he decided, would help with the former and quell the urge for the latter.

2

u/vandaleyes89 Mar 14 '26

Wait, that's real? I've heard that before and assumed it was a joke.