When was cap crunch invented

Any successful kid's breakfast cereal is going to have its share of spin-offs and Cap'n Crunch is no different. The good Cap'n has seen his share of kooky flavor variations over the years and by far the most popular has to be the oldest — the introduction of Crunch Berries. Crunch Berries only came along a few years after Cap'n Crunch itself and were added to the cereal in via Advertising Week One of the brand's earliest commercials highlighted the strawberry flavor of crunch berries via YouTube.

Again, pirate Jean LaFoote demanded to know exactly what a Crunch Berry was and later commercials featured the introduction of a friendly creature known as the Crunch Berry Beast via YouTube.

Peanut butter Cap'n Crunch followed two years later and since then, the brand has had dozens of spin-off Cap'n Crunch flavors from Cap'n Crunch Oops! Perhaps somebody should tell the Cap'n that he's gone overboard with the crunch flavors. Despite what advertising might have told us, Cap'n Crunch was never really part of a "complete and balanced breakfast. The Cap'n found himself potentially walking the plank in after child obesity experts began to take a closer look at the marketing of sugary foods to children via Vox.

While Cap'n Crunch wasn't directly singled out, kid's breakfast cereals, along with sodas and yogurt, found themselves under pressure to change via Time. PepsiCo Quaker Oats' parent company had already begun to scale back the Cap'n's visibility, which led to a lot of speculation that the Cap'n could be destined for sleeping with the fishes via Gakwer. While the Cap'n had briefly been pulled from the Quaker Oats website, he did return with a new Twitter account proclaiming "I'm hearing the rumors.

I would never retire. I love being a captain too much! Despite his refusal to go down, the cereal was still called out by numerous publications for its less-than-healthy nutrition. Obviously we can't write about Cap'n Crunch without addressing a serious issue Cap'n Horatio Magellan Crunch — yes, that's his name — came under heavy scrutiny in , when the news picked up on a viral image of the Cap'n's stripes compared with a navy captain via Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Pretty soon the Cap'n was being called "a liar and a fraud" for sporting his naval uniform without actually holding a captain's rank via Food Beast. As ABC News pointed out, the Cap'n only has three gold stripes on his sleeve, which would make him a commander and thus one rank under an actual captain who would have four stripes. Oh, the deception! The whole thing was elevated to another level of silliness when the Navy actually weighed in on the matter, via The Consumerist.

Navy commander," US Navy spokesperson Lt. Sarah Flaherty, said. The Cap'n addressed the controversy on Twitter saying, "I captain the S. Guppy with my crew, which makes me an official Cap'n" and Quaker backed him up adding, "We don't feel [the fourth stripe is] necessary.

Cap'n Crunch might not be an official Navy captain, but the internet does probably owe the cereal an apology for calling the Cap'n a complete charlatan. Never mind the fact that there's a petition to officially promote Cap'n Crunch to the rank of Admiral — the cereal doesn't need it. Cap'n Horatio Magellan Crunch actually does have some legitimate US Navy history that we'd be willing to bet a fair share of his critics have no idea about. That alone should give the Cap'n a little more clout via Naval Historical Foundation.

The real standout case for the cereal mascot's military connection, though, is that the character appeared in a number of US Navy cruise books sort of like a high school yearbook for Navy ships in the '70s and '80s. One of the stranger things in the history of Cap'n Crunch is the cereal's connection to a federal crime carried out by one of the United State's most famous hackers. Cereal box toys may now be a thing of the past, but they used to be commonplace and a guy named John Draper used one to commit a legendary crime.

An incredibly smart man when it came to electronics, Draper had been enlisted in the Air Force in the s as a radar technician when he took up an interest in the workings of telephone switchboards via Mental Floss. This essentially allowed Draper or anybody with a Crunch whistle to use it to make free phone calls.

Draper would become somewhat of a counterculture celebrity after being profiled in Esquire. Unfortunately, this notoriety also came with charges of toll fraud and jail time in California. Do you ever walk down the cereal aisle and for some odd reason feel like you're being watched?

Well, your kid probably does That's right, Cap'n Crunch — and just about every other kid's cereal mascot — has his eyes fixated on children in the grocery store. A study conducted by Cornell University Food and Brand Lab researchers found that mascots on children's cereal have their eyes at a downward 9.

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Yeah, that was the whistle until John Draper, the guy who discovered that application, is still alive as I write this. You can look up his bio on Wikipedia.

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He was a columnist for a variety of animation magazines. He taught animation classes at the Disney Institute in Florida as well as instructing classes on acting and animation history for Disney Feature Animation: Florida.

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