1. Battle Creek Is A Real Place, But Not As Exciting As It Sounds
Battle Creek? Sounds badass. However its nickname - Cereal City - doesn't inspire quite the same level of awe as something that suggests that large-scale conflict rather than large-scale cornflakes happened there. It's the third biggest city in Michigan, named after - you guessed it - a skirmish that took place between a survey party and some Native Americans around 1823. The conflict was resolved but the name stuck because, well, it's pretty damn cool. The Civil War saw Battle Creek serve as a key stop on the underground railroad and Kellogg's set up shop there as their permanent world headquarters, hence the nickname. None of that makes the city sound like it's particularly crime-ridden (probably why the phrase "semi-mean streets" has been used so often in press coverage), but there are always dark underbellies to even the brightest beacons of civilization, and I expect Battle Creek will be revealed to be little different. Perhaps there'll be a city-wide conspiracy involving drug trafficking in cereal boxes, or maybe an epidemic of cardboard littering throughout the county that can't be resolved without the federal government's involvement? What do you think about the latest developments in Mr. Gilligan's new project? Are there any we missed?
