[Sca-cooks] Persephone and pomegranite seeds

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> Oh! Did "cereal" come from "Ceres"? Or the other way around? Or did  
> they both just come from the same root word?

According to the OED, 'cereal' comes from Ceres:
"Cere{amac}lis pertaining to Ceres, the goddess of agriculture"

Ceres' cult was specifically associated with the plebes of Rome and 
related to the bread distribution. See 

Barbette Stanley Spaeth. The Roman Goddess Ceres. (Austin, TX:
University of Texas Press, 1996)

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