Posted on 02/20/2021 11:08:16 AM PST by SamAdams76
Who used to pick out all of the Crunchberries first?
Come on, fess up!
I don’t think I’ve ever tried Cap’n Crunch. When I was young I remember eating cereals like Fruit Loops, Rice Krispies, Frosted Flakes and Lucky Charms.
Quix was quixotic and a long time ago.
Upon entering the Deutsche Reichsmarine in 1938, Leutnant
(W.) Siegfried “Wolf” Crunch was assigned to the
Torpedoboote “Aufschlagspritzer”, as assistant to the
Besonderen Offizier T.O. (Torpedo Officer). At the onset of
war he was promoted and transferred to the Unterwasser-
waffen branch as the political officer of Unterseeboote (U-
boat) 133, which became notorious for its high tonnage of
mostly unarmed cargo vessels (and several neutral ships),
after he had taken command following the suspicious death of
the ship’s Captain.
Assuming the field rank of Kapitan-leutnant (W.) (which was
never confirmed), he soon began a reign of undersea terror
and treachery unmatched in the war. Labeled a “rogue” by
German Naval HQ, his reckless brutality eventually caused
his crew to mutiny, during which he managed to scuttle his
submarine, at the loss of all hands, while making his way to
an Argentinian trawler on a life raft.
Still a young man, he quickly amassed a fortune in South
America, allegedly through the use of slave labor, and later
was instrumental in the plot to assassinate Juan Peron.
Relocating to the United States in the early 1960’s, he was
fired from his job at Kellog’s for wanting to put sugar
frosting on corn flakes, which they deemed “unhealthy”. But
his invention of a secret process to keep cereal crunchy,
even in milk, redeemed him with the breakfast-food industry
and the rest is history.
That was the most interesting thing I’ve read in a while. Of course I grew up in the Golden Age of childhood...60s-70s. BTW...the complete Bullwinkle franchise is available on DVD and very reasonably priced on Amazon. A box of PB Crunch and I can recreate those glorious Saturday mornings!
Yours was evidently a Kellogs cereals family. Ours bought something from everybody at one time or another: General Mills, Post, Kellogs, sometimes store brands.
I picked out all the Lucky Charms first, and probably didn’t eat much of the actual cereal.
Both my parents were from Battle Creek, one Grandfather worked for Kelloggs and the other worked for Post. So we got all the toys they put in the boxes.
He did and he was able to put in a swimming pool as a result. But first, his cheap boss tried enrolling him in the jelly-of-the-month club instead. He and his crazy cousin was having none of that!
Yep, guilty of that one too.
Sure. Who didn’t when given the choice as a kid? Now they sell Berry Crunch with nothing but the berries.
Capt’n Crunch is crap.
In my younger days I would eat an entire box of Lucky Charms in one sitting.
Just sit down with a new box and a half gallon of milk.
Eat, pour in some fresh milk, then add more cereal to balance it out and you keep adding cereal and milk trying to keep the right balance until the entire box is gone.
I take that back. Lucky Charms is a General Mills brand cereal. But perhaps mostly Kellogs for you?
The best was Cocoa Puffs, because after you ate the cereal you still had a bowl-full of chocolate milk.
Colon Blow cereal. The best.
Then I'd take the entire stack of creme and jam it into my mouth all at once. That created quite the sugar high.
I'll probably live 10 years less because of that childhood tomfoolery.
I got a chance to tour the Kellogs plant in Battle Creek once. That was a fun day!
I looked up the brands, and I don’t remember having any of the Post products. Now I don’t eat cereal at all, just plain oatmeal.
That was some funny shit.
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