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Punch Crunch was fruit-flavored cereal rings, and the mascot was sailor-clad hippopotamus named Harry.

Punch Crunch, Vanilly Crunch, Cinnamon Crunch: Three more editions were issued in the early ’70s - Punch Crunch, Vanilly Crunch, and Jean LaFoote’s Cinnamon Crunch - but were later discontinued.

Peanut Butter Crunch: Peanut Butter Crunch was first released in 1969, with a large elephant named Smedley as its mascot according to sales charts, this version was the most successful at the time.

All the berry pieces are flavored the same, regardless of color. There are currently four Crunch Berry colors: red, green (introduced in 2002), blue, and purple (both introduced in the '90s). The Crunch Berry Beast mascot was introduced alongside the cereal. There was a version of Crunch Berries available briefly in which the berries, instead of being spherical, were three small berries in a cluster.

Cap'n Crunch's Crunch Berries: Cap’n Crunch's Crunch Berries cereal was introduced in 1967 and contained, in addition to the yellow pieces found in the original Cap'n Crunch, spherical red Crunch Berry pieces.

The cereal was launched in 1963, bolstered by a successful advertising campaign created by noted animator Jay Ward introducing the cereal's longtime naval mascot, Cap'n Crunch.

Cap'n Crunch: The original Cap'n Crunch cereal, which at the time was referred to as The Crunchy Captain's Cereal (CCC), is made of sweetened, yellow, square-shaped corn and oat pieces.

It’s amazing to think of how one random object can be responsible for changing the way our world works, and it all starts with a box of breakfast cereal.įor a kid growing up in the 70s and 80s, breakfast was an event. This was a whole new age of cereals that were geared towards kids, nutrition be damned it was all about bright colors, sugar, and cartoon characters that would help sell it.Ĭereal commercials and cartoons seemed to be one and the same and as the deregulation of advertising to children became established in the 80s, there was no telling what was commercial and what was a cartoon.

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Not only would the back of a cereal box serve as your morning newspaper, the prospect of any free toy inside made it feel like Christmas every time you got a new box. One significant cereal – and toy – would play a part in the creation of the worlds biggest tech company and, ultimately, to the phone, laptop, or tablet you may be reading this on right now. So even though some of this takes place pre-80s, it’s significant because it sets up the evolution of Apple through the 80s and onward to today.Ĭap’n Crunch is a cereal that goes back even further to 1963 and is a corn and oat-based cereal produced by Quaker Oats. The cereal has routes in an old recipe involving brown sugar and butter over rice. The creator of Cap’n Crunch, Pamela Low, was a “flavorist” and recalled this meal being made by her grandmother when she was younger and thought this could work well as a breakfast cereal. This combination of flavors created a “want more-ishness” and would be the basis for the flavor coating of the cereal. They came up with the idea of a sea captain as their mascot and went with the name Cap’n Crunch.

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If you want the real insight into the Cap’n, his full name is Horatio Magellan Crunch. He is captain of the “Guppy” and was born on “Crunch Island” in the “Sea Of Milk” – See, even cereal mascots have an origin story. Your whole childhood is a lie but if you want to learn more about epic 80s cereals check out my article all about them! If you want more truth bombs Cap’n Crunch only has three stripes on his uniform which actually give him the title of “Commander” and not “Captain”. So there have been many great prizes found in cereal over the years and one non-descript item was put into Cap’n Crunch in the mid-60s – a simple little whistle. Just picture Captain Von Trapp in the Sound of Music… It was called the Bo’sun whistle, and it was meant to replicate the whistle used by sailing captains to signal meal times and also commands. So these were just cheap little red whistles and if you’ve read the great Ready Player One, you know what a significant part of that story it is.

The interesting thing with these whistles is the tone they give off which happens to be exactly 2600hz. And that leads to the next part of our story. The Phreakers weren’t an 80s breakdance crew (though they should have been) but were an underground group of hackers – specifically phone hackers. This is still back in the 60s and 70s so computers, as we know them, weren’t really a thing. #Captain crunch whistle phone calls free.#Captain crunch whistle phone calls full.