The Graham Cracker Diet
Apparently, the link between food and morality has a long history. In the 1830s, Evangelical minister Sylvester Graham felt like people’s carnal urges were encouraged by fatty diets. His solution was to create food that was as bland as possible. Graham’s low-mating diet urged people to eat grains, fruits, and vegetables, but not spices and meats.
Surprisingly, thousands followed this diet, becoming known as “Grahamites.” Graham even developed his own incredibly bland wheat germ loaf, the Graham cracker’s predecessor, sold commercially after Graham’s death at the turn of the twentieth century. But, as you can imagine, the early version had nothing on that yummy, cinnamon, S’more-maker we know today.
