His was my favorite cereal as a kid, and I’m sure it’s still fabulous today. So, I announce my support for Cap’n Crunch in this new controversy. And btw, it appears the Cap’n has his own late night talk show. Just fyi.
“You are correct that Cap’n Crunch appears to be wearing the rank of a U.S. Navy commander,” Lt. Cmdr. Sarah Flaherty, a U.S. Navy spokeswoman, told Foreign Policy Magazine. “Oddly, our personnel records do not show a ‘Cap’n Crunch’ who currently serves or has served in the Navy.” Michael Peck reports on military fraud and sugar pusher Cap’n Crunch’s tarnished legacy.
Cap’n Crunch? You 60’s young ‘uns had it good. (The cereal made its debut, according to Wikipedia – see below — in 1963) Back in the ’50, we had Sugar Pops, Frosted Flakes and Sugar Smacks. They all had sugar, so I wolfed down all of ’em. Not much of a choice, but I was a happy camper 🙂
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap%27n_Crunch
Hey Shif, some things never go outta style. My son loves Frosted Flakes! It’s like an American food icon, or something like that. Funny, I never liked cereal as a child, too sweet. 🙂
Kitten, what do these words mean: “too sweet” ??? Sorry, I don’t know what that means… Is that English? 🙂
LOL! I know. It’s probably because I sweetened the milk first and then put the cereal in. I was the baby girl and that’s what I saw my older brothers do.
Yeah, sugar everywhere, which obviously wasn’t good. I grew up gobbling sugar cereal for breakfast, peanut butter and jelly on white bread for lunch, meat and potatoes for dinner. Everybody did. Never saw a vegetable until I got to college. And all the adults smoked like chimneys, and Dad came home after a hard day at the office and Mom brought him a Martini. There were no emissions controls in those days, and Los Angeles was a smog pit. Now we know how terrible all that stuff was. We’ve got nutritious foods everywhere, there’s a new industry of exercise machines, there are TV shows and government programs and public service announcements and Michelle Obama waddling around wiggling her angry fat ass and telling us what to eat. We’re building a better world, or so we tell ourselves. The only part I don’t understand is, with all our progress and enlightenment, how come we’re fatter and unhealthier today than we were then? There’s a fundamental force at work here, and it would be worth pausing to observe the huge and growing gap between ideology and real-world results, and contemplating how we might have gone astray in spite of such clever theories and good intentions.
Great points, Maynard. My Mom is always saying how food today doesn’t taste as good as it used to. I can also tell a difference and I’m convinced it’s because of the chemicals and additives and over processing of our food supply. We may know more about proper nutrition, but we’re less healthy.
We had cars to match then – giant marshmallows that could go really fast.
As I said in the chat room; the commanding officer of ANY US Navy ship is a “Captain” regardless of his rank. I also note that a Seaman could become Captain if everyone above him in rank was killed – although by that time there probably wouldn’t be much of a ship left…