Cap'n Crunch sails into obscurity (Nanny-Statism has killed my favorite cereal!)

Today.com ^ | 03/09/2011 | Ryan MacClanathan

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

lol. Funny cartoon.

I eat Capt Crunch dry. The same way I eat M&M's. Like candy.

The left won't be happy til we're all eating cardboard and grass with a mud chaser.

[andy58-in-nh]

Damn those cereal killers.

[OL Hickory]

120 + posts on the demise of captain crunch...revolution always starts somewhere..LOL

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

Walmart sells a knockoff of Crunchberries. Comes in a giant yellow plastic sack. Can’t miss it. 3x the cereal for half the price. Excellent stuff.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Perhaps a viking funeral is required to send him off with honor.

[Freedom56v2]

PepsiCo is no longer marketing Cap’n Crunch cereal directly to children. In a sense, you could say that they have retired Cap’n Crunch, and that’s a good thing,” Jennifer Harris, of the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University, told DailyFinance. “Unfortunately, children continue to view hundreds of ads per year for high-sugar cereals from General Mills, Kellogg’s and Post Foods.”

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My question is what does “no longer marketing...directly to children” EVEN MEAN? Are they truly STOPPING THE MANUFACTURER OF IT, or just not marketing it? I am confused. As an adult I am really sick of the NANNY state telling companies what soup and what cereal they can manufacturer. Like all things, children or adults having a bowl of Capt’n Crunch once in a while is the LEAST of the problems facing our nation and the LEAST of the problems this overreaching government should be involving itself with!!!! :(

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

lol. Yup. It’s the little things life that people remember and that matters to them.

[zeugma]

Who needs milk? Cap’n Crunch is finger food!

[zeugma]

Cap'n Crunch sails into obscurity

Obama continues to gut our military.

By far, the best post of the thread kudos!

[indubitably]

“Reports of Cap’n Crunch’s demise are greatly exaggerated,” Quaker said in a statement to Ad Age.

http://adage.com/article/news/cap-n-crunch-breathes-easier-talk-demise-untrue/149318/

[zeugma]

“Reports of Cap’n Crunch’s demise are greatly exaggerated,”

Though it's good to hear, I have to call party-pooper for bringing facts into what was turning into a fun thread. (not that facts will stop some folks around here!) ;-)

[indubitably]

oops! Didn’t mean to be a party pooper. I did a quick google search to grab a link other than from Today so I could send to my out-of-town husband. We both love Cap’n Crunch and I thought we could plan our strategy for stocking up. Found the facts and was relieved! :-)

[whd23]

It's not possible. We know he survives well into the future and is even promoted.

[Fledermaus]

I went to the PepsiCo website and clicked until I got the contact information for Quaker products and emailed my disgust in nice terms.

I got a survey request and filled it out.

[rlmorel]

LOL...who would have thought a thread about Captain Crunch would have got so many responses?

(There were people who wanted to pounce on that line of yours!)

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