Special K

Why did Kellogs called their cereals Special K?

Coming up beyond belief
On this coronary thief
More than just a leitmotif
More chaotic, no relief ~ Special K by Placebo




Brian Molko definitely wasn't singing about tucking in to a bowl of nutritious breakfast cereals. I must say the use of leitmotif was rather dramatic (operatic?). Why Special K? Surely the fine fine folks at Kellogs, whose Seventh Day Adventist founding father, Dr John Kellog certainly had lofty ideas for his cornflakes then, do know of the name Special K being related to the drug Ketamine or specifically Ketamine Hydrochloride?

Ketamine is a short-acting general anaesthetic that has hallucinogenic and painkilling qualities that seem to affect people in very differently ways in case anybody wants to know. It's a drug. To use it without prescription and socially is to abuse it. That's no difference from eating too much vitamin C. well, not really...


Next blog I will write about Dr John Kellog and Presbyterian minister Sylvester Graham.