Does anyone ever wonder how certain products got their name? While eating my Product 19 this morning I wondered why they named it that, was it because it was the 19th cereal in the Kellogg line? What about Special K....What does the K stand for and why is it special?

Product 19 from Wikipedia

"According to the book Cerealizing America: The Unsweetened Story of Breakfast Cereal by Scott Bruce and Bill Crawford, Kellogg's copywriter John E. Matthews was having difficulty naming the as-yet-unnamed cereal, which was being developed to compete with the General Mills cereal Total. Finally, he settled on the name Product 19, as the cereal was the 19th product that Kellogg's was working on that year."

Don't know about Special K - a play on Kellogg's, maybe?

Thanks Fuse...oh duh, K for Kelloggs...why didn't I think of that? Thanks again!!

Reminds me of the joke (George Carlin?) about Preparation H. Who were the poor souls who tested Preparations A-G ?

There was also Victor Borge and his poor uncle who came so close with the drink called 'Six Up'.