That’s Vanilly Crunch, matey! With Wilma the Winsome Whale!
Dig it: they tarted her up on later boxes:
One of the ridiculous items to eat at the California State Farm this year is a chicken breast sandwich deep fried in a Captain Crunch batter.
As I recall, Quisp had a distinctive flavor apart from the Cap’n’s crunchy goodness.
All three cereals were / are pretty similar in composition / recipe (oat flour, corn flower, sugar, brown sugar, and other stuff), but there are likely sufficient differences to lead to different flavor profiles.
I always thought the cereal was tiny treasure chests.
The cereal has a similar arched top as the lid.
Hi Doug,
Thank you for writing to us concerning Cap’n Crunch. There is not specific name to the shape other than a square piece of cereal.
We consider you a valued consumer and hope you will continue to enjoy snacks from PepsiCo Foods Canada.
Vickie Dungan
Consumer Relations
Fake news. Sad.
This is disturbing.
Yeah, really. Mini-binoculars, indeed! :eek::smack:
I agree. I’ve been eating Cap’n Crunch for over 50 years. If there was even a slight chance that it would hurt the roof of my mouth it would have happened by now. My two daughters have absolutely zero tolerance for pain but have never had issues with eating CC. I never even heard anyone claim that it caused mouth damage until around 1984. And everyone making that claim eventually revealed that they had never even eaten it - and in fact refused to try it because someone else told them it would injure the roof of their mouth.
It does indeed tear up the palate. I still have to peel off strips of flesh whenever I eat it.
Also, Quisp can be ordered on Amazon.
It never gave me any mouth issues. But then again I ate it with a spoon and crunched it with my molars.
What the heck were you palate damagers doing, stuffing your mouths full?
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I’ve also heard that roof of the mouth burn one gets from eating super hot pizza referred to as “stalactites”
Ain’t language great? Thanks for that; I wonder if there’s a specific palate-malady-term for each food item?
Slight hijack
Last time I ate Cap’n Crunch was when my then house mate bought a box. It was gaggingly sweet, though I was quite fond of it as a kid.
There was a special promotion for a commemorative quarter on the box, so we sent in the form. I might have fudged our ages a bit, lol. I was delighted when we each received a coin and a personally signed letter from the Cap’n himself. I still have it, somewhere.
Same issue here. Hated that f’in cereal for that reason.
Cap’n Crunch enthusiasts learned at an early age to pour the milk over the cereal and let it soak for a few minutes.
I distinctly recall at bout age 4 or 5, spending quality cross legged time in my jammies, front of a massive color television, furniture grade watching cartoons one Saturday morning, bowl of Quisp in hand. The reason I remember this, our large Boxer walked right by me, and cocked a leg and pissed on my back. WTF?
On the contrary. Cap’n Crunch enthusiasts knew that “stays crunchy even in milk” was marketing BS and that it was necessary to eat it quickly before it become soggy.
Or don’t even bother with the milk.
The ridges most likely are to increase surface area so that upon exit from the extruder they would cool faster. And… If they lowered their throughput and allowed it to cook in the extruder longer, the starches would gelatinize and it would make it less “shreddy”.