Cap'n Crunch Cereal...a kind of dumb question......

[Weisshund]

@Doug_K

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.

Soggy was the only way to eat it, unless you enjoyed your mouth being flayed.
That is why i ate freakies instead

*Oh we are the Freakies We are the Freakies And this is our Freakies Tree And we never miss a meal Cause we love our cereal This is the Big Boss We call him BossMoss Make sure you spell it right Snorkeldorf they call me So handsome and pretty Here’s little Hamhose He’s got a weird nose Do I really have to sing? My name is Grumble I am Cowmumble You’re standing on my foot Gargle is his name Smartness is my game I know more than you do And don’t forget me I’m Goody-Goody I always do what’s right For instance, I eat Freakies cause it’s got a lot of vitamins and it’s good for me Oh we are the Freakies We are the Freakies And this is our Freakies Tree Yessir… *

[burpo_the_wonder_mutt]

One word:

CLACKERS!

[ZipperJJ]

@Leaffan

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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Mhmmm!!!

[susan]

Now, Freakies was a bad-tasting cereal.

[caligulathegod]

@Leaffan

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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Doesn’t the cereal fall off your spoon when you turn it sideways?

[BigT]

@caligulathegod

Doesn’t the cereal fall off your spoon when you turn it sideways?

At first I was going to say “why would you turn the spoon sideways?” But I think I get your meaning.

How are you getting the food off your spoon and onto your molars? Most people I know use either their top lip or teeth, and that’s the point where the food can (but doesn’t always) hit the roof of your mouth.

[california_jobcase]

If perchance you leave your Cap’n Crunch/King Vitaman/Freakies/Quisp/Quake cereal box open and it gets stale and loses its delightful crispiness, pour it onto a cooky sheet and pop it into a 225 degree F oven for about ten minutes. Hard palate shredding properties magically restored! (this works great with pretzels too!)

[Gordon_Urquhart]

I have an adult XL T-shirt with the Cap’n’s visage on it that I acquired from the Quaker Oats Company (which is a division of PepsiCo, I just learned) several years ago in exchange for five or six proofs of purchase. It’s one of my favorites; I get comments, most of them favorable, every time I wear it.

In about junior high, I acquired a huge fondness for (original) Cap’n Crunch but never tried Peanut Butter Crunch until around college. Now it’s one of the cereals (Fruity Pebbles being the other) of which I could eat an entire box in one sitting. Until this thread, I never knew how many other varieties there had been.

[TruCelt]

@Doug_K

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.

I ate it with milk, and absolutely loved the taste of both Cap’n crunch and quisp. But I finally stopped eating them because they made the insides of my cheeks feel “fuzzy.” My brother never had this problem.

But yeah, there were hundreds of tiny cuts on the inside of my cheeks after eating them.

@Weisshund

Soggy was the only way to eat it, unless you enjoyed your mouth being flayed.
That is why i ate freakies instead

*Oh we are the Freakies We are the Freakies And this is our Freakies Tree And we never miss a meal Cause we love our cereal This is the Big Boss We call him BossMoss Make sure you spell it right Snorkeldorf they call me So handsome and pretty Here’s little Hamhose He’s got a weird nose Do I really have to sing? My name is Grumble I am Cowmumble You’re standing on my foot Gargle is his name Smartness is my game I know more than you do And don’t forget me I’m Goody-Goody I always do what’s right For instance, I eat Freakies cause it’s got a lot of vitamins and it’s good for me Oh we are the Freakies We are the Freakies And this is our Freakies Tree Yessir… *

I really thought this must be a Canada thing. But after looking it up, I do have a vague memory of thinking this was the beginning of a TV show and wondering why it never came on.

Freakies Cereal Commercial 1974

[Doug_K]

If Cap’n Crunch really caused mouth injuries it would have been pulled from the market decades ago.

[Lucas_Jackson]

@DrForrester

The ridges most likely are to increase surface area so that upon exit from the extruder they would cool faster.

More probably they increase the surface area for the flavoring oil to adhere to.

[kenobi_65]

@Gordon_Urquhart

I have an adult XL T-shirt with the Cap’n’s visage on it that I acquired from the Quaker Oats Company (which is a division of PepsiCo, I just learned) several years ago

Slight hijack: Quaker was an independent company until 2001, when it was bought by Pepsico; I worked for Quaker from 1996 until 2000.

PepsiCo and Coca-Cola had engaged in a bidding war to buy Quaker in late 2000 and early 2001; both companies wanted Quaker in order to get Gatorade, which, at that time, had been posting impressive sales growth for many years. Surprisingly to those of us who worked at Quaker, PepsiCo hung onto most of Quaker’s food businesses – the conventional wisdom at the time of the purchase was that they would keep Gatorade, but spin off everything else.