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Cap'n Crunch sails into obscurity (Nanny-Statism has killed my favorite cereal!)
Today.com ^ | 03/09/2011 | Ryan MacClanathan

Posted on 03/09/2011 2:04:44 PM PST by mkleesma

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To: null and void; Quix
Shouldn’t you have pinged Quix to that?

Looks like you just saved me the trouble. He strikes me as more of a Quake type, though.

61 posted on 03/09/2011 2:43:26 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

“And before you laugh that comment off, how many of you buy tampons for your lady?

There are some things an old man just won’t do!”

Aww come on. Are you afraid the cashier is gonna have trouble and have to cry out for a price check on that item? LOL


62 posted on 03/09/2011 2:43:44 PM PST by BJ1
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To: Fledermaus

Capt. Crunch was also great late night, ah, munchie food in college.


63 posted on 03/09/2011 2:44:01 PM PST by Fledermaus (RINO'S no more! Defeat socialist in every party!)
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To: sten; null and void
pressure from the White House and health activists is having an effect on how PepsiCo and other food companies peddle their products to kids.

All for Michelle. The FLOTUS' pantry is probably overflowing with the little sugar blobs. The White Hut can then rename the cereal Cap'n Caboose, after the horder-in-chief herself. You, OTOH, need to cut back.

64 posted on 03/09/2011 2:44:06 PM PST by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: mjp
somebody could make a lot of money if they started a company that made a similar product

Malt-O-Meal sells "generic" counterparts to all the popular cereals at a substantial savings over the name brands, and come in resealable bags instead of boxes.
65 posted on 03/09/2011 2:45:02 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Fledermaus

I will buy a box of peanut butter and incorporate it into my weight watchers plan....I think it’ll be yummy with a glass of vino...


66 posted on 03/09/2011 2:45:05 PM PST by geege
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To: mkleesma
If the Feds had their way, this would be the only legal cereal


67 posted on 03/09/2011 2:45:19 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: mkleesma

I knew Cap’n Crunch when he was only an ensign.


68 posted on 03/09/2011 2:45:19 PM PST by IronJack (=)
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To: carton253
Now, those were cereals. I preferred Quisp and my brother, Quake.

That's the way it was in my family. I was a Quispite and my brother was a Quaker. I wonder if they're still being sold?

69 posted on 03/09/2011 2:46:28 PM PST by Route797
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To: sten

And liberals claim Conservatives stick our noses in everyone’s business. It is just the opposite!


70 posted on 03/09/2011 2:46:50 PM PST by kcvl
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To: All

They will continue to sell it, but they will stop marketing it directly to kids. That is all they have said.


71 posted on 03/09/2011 2:47:29 PM PST by texmexis best
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To: Disambiguator

Basic Oats and Cheerios are my favorites . . .

though Sugar Crisps are OK too.


72 posted on 03/09/2011 2:47:42 PM PST by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Fledermaus

I just had the wifey get a box yesterday, after a few years. Always liked it, and Sugar Pops, Frosted Flakes, Cocao Puffs. There was a sugar coated puffed rice one, too, but can’t recall the name.


73 posted on 03/09/2011 2:47:49 PM PST by SgtHooper (The last thing I want to do is hurt you. But it's still on the list.)
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To: rlmorel
*You BEAT ME, darn it...dang.*

Saints presarve us!

;-)

74 posted on 03/09/2011 2:48:25 PM PST by PATRIOT1876 (The only crimes that are 100% preventable are crimes committed by illegal aliens)
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To: mkleesma

First they came for the Sugar Jets
Then they came for the Kelloggs OKs
Then they went for the Kellogg’s Puffa-Puffa Rice
And now they are killing Cap’n Crunch.

As long as they leave my Chocolate Covered Sugar Bombs alone....


75 posted on 03/09/2011 2:50:03 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Visit the TOMMY FRANKS MILITARY MUSEUM in HOBART, OK. I did, well worth it!)
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To: mkleesma

A movie keeps coming to mind, might be called “Judge Dredd” or some such......Life is once again imitating art.


76 posted on 03/09/2011 2:52:09 PM PST by CSM (Keeper of the "Dave Ramsey Fan" ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: sten

I’m sure the health activists and the White House mean well, but we all know what is paved with good intentions. This story reminds me of the candy cigarettes and cigars I used to partake of as a child. They were supposed to be bad influences on kids, and are no longer allowed, but they never caused me to want to use tobacco. Good parenting renders a nanny state unnecessary. Unfortunately, there are a lot of bad parents running around.


77 posted on 03/09/2011 2:52:48 PM PST by Route797
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To: carton253
Now, those were cereals. I preferred Quisp and my brother, Quake.

Quisp vs. Quake

A friend of mine got in a fistfight over this issue when he was in 3rd grade.

78 posted on 03/09/2011 2:53:39 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: CSM

They better not take away the new Frosted Bite-Size Mini Wheats!


79 posted on 03/09/2011 2:54:00 PM PST by varina davis (Life is not a dress rehearsal)
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To: mkleesma

When I was in Coast Guard boot camp a long time ago), there would be special mornings when an announcement would be blasted through the mess deck: “The Captain is on Deck.”

We would all smartly stand at attention and wait for what seemed like forever, waiting for the CO to make an appearance. Then one of the company commanders (a chief) would start tossing the single serving boxes of Cap’n Crunch around to us recruits.

Then the CC would tell us it was a reward for doing something well the day before. We worked our asses off every day in the hopes of getting that special treat.

I will never forget that, but interestingly, I haven’t eaten that cereal since.


80 posted on 03/09/2011 2:55:05 PM PST by Semper911 (When you want to rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll always have the support of Paul.)
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