corn flake

Grain-based breakfast bit

A corn flake is a thin, flat piece of toasted corn, typically eaten as breakfast cereal with milk.

Almost always plural: a bowl of corn flakes.

Flaky or fragile things may be compared to corn flakes.

As a compound, cornflake often appears in recipes: cornflake chicken, cornflake cookies.

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breakfast · morning routine · breakfast table · toasting · grain · crispy · vitamins · honey · minerals · sugar · foodstuff · Kellogg's · Tony the Tiger · bowl · invention · nostalgia · extrusion · post

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cereal texture and form

corn flakegranola

Baked oat cluster cereal

porridge · muesli · oatmeal · shredded wheat · puffed rice

breakfast food category

corn flakebacon and eggs

Classic American breakfast combo

scrambled eggs · full English breakfast · pancakes · French toast · omelette

Family

corn, flake, corns, corny, cornfield, corncob, cornmeal, cornstarch, popcorn

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Known to kids · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G