Cap'n Crunch facts for kids
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| Type | Cereal |
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| Owner | Quaker Oats Company |
| Country | United States |
| Introduced | 1963 |
Cap'n Crunch is a yummy cereal made from corn and oats. It's produced by the Quaker Oats Company, which has been owned by PepsiCo since 2001. The first Cap'n Crunch cereal came out in 1963. Since then, Quaker Oats has created many different flavors and special holiday versions.
The original Cap'n Crunch cereal was made to taste like a recipe of brown sugar and butter over rice. It was one of the first cereals to use a special oil coating to give it flavor. This needed a new way of baking!
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Meet Cap'n Crunch: The Cereal's Mascot
Before the cereal even had its final taste, Quaker Oats had a plan for its marketing. The face of Cap'n Crunch cereal is a fun cartoon character named Cap'n Crunch. He looks like a naval captain from the late 1700s. He's an older gentleman with white eyebrows and a white mustache.
He wears a Revolutionary War-style naval uniform. This includes a special hat called a bicorne with a "C" on it. He also wears a blue coat with gold shoulder decorations called epaulettes and gold bars on his sleeves.
The Captain's Rank and Home
The The Wall Street Journal reported in 2013 that the mascot's full name is Horatio Magellan Crunch. He commands a ship called the Guppy. Cap'n Crunch was born on Crunch Island. This is a magical island near Ohio, located in the "Sea of Milk." Crunch Island has talking trees, silly creatures, and a mountain (Mt. Crunchmore) made of Cap'n Crunch cereal!
His bicorne hat looks like a "Napoleon-style" hat. This has made some people wonder if he might be French. A news source called CrunchFacts, which is all about the mascot, says that Horatio Crunch has a super high IQ of 200!
Fun Facts About the Captain
In 2013, some news sources like The Wall Street Journal pointed out something funny. A real naval captain in the U.S. Navy wears four stripes on their sleeves. But Cap'n Crunch's uniform only shows three stripes. This means his rank would actually be a Commander!
As a joke, The Wall Street Journal even reported that the U.S. Navy had no record of Crunch. They also joked that the NCIS was looking into him for pretending to be a naval officer!
Daws Butler was the first voice of Cap'n Crunch until 1988. Later, George J. Adams voiced him from 1991 to 2007. The commercials were first made by Jay Ward Productions. Later, Vinton Studios made a claymation ad in the 1980s.
Other Characters from Cap'n Crunch
- Jean LaFoote: This is a pirate character from the Cap'n Crunch world. His name sounds like the real historical pirate, Jean Lafitte. In the mid-1970s, he was the main mascot for Jean LaFoote's Cinnamon Crunch cereal.
- The Soggies: In the 1980s, the Captain's main enemies were the Soggies. These were strange alien creatures that looked like blobs of milk. Their goal was to make everything on Earth soggy! The only thing safe from them was Cap'n Crunch cereal. Many ads showed them trying to make the cereal soggy, but they never could. Their leader was the Sogmaster.
Different Cap'n Crunch Cereals
Over the years, many exciting versions of Cap'n Crunch cereal have been released!
- Cap'n Crunch: This is the original cereal, launched in 1963. It has sweetened, yellow, square-shaped pieces made from corn and oats.
- Cap'n Crunch's Crunch Berries: Introduced in 1967, this version has the original yellow pieces plus colorful, round "Crunch Berry" pieces. The berries come in red, green, blue, and purple. They all taste the same, no matter the color!
- Peanut Butter Crunch: First released in 1969, this cereal has peanut butter-flavored corn puffs. It was very popular when it first came out.
- Oops! All Berries: This version, first released in 1997, contains only the berry-flavored Crunch Berries, with no yellow corn squares. It has made special limited-time returns over the years.
- Christmas Crunch: This is a special edition released for the Christmas holiday season since 1987. It has the classic yellow squares with red and green Crunch Berries. The berries are often shaped like Christmas items, and the box has a holiday theme.
- Halloween Crunch: A limited edition cereal introduced in 2007. This one has green Crunch Berries shaped like ghosts!
- Home Run Crunch: A limited edition cereal first released in 1995, often brought back in the summer. It has the Crunch Berries flavor, but the cereal pieces are shaped like baseball bats and balls.
- Cap'n Crunch's Mystery Volcano Crunch: This fun cereal had red and yellow fruit-flavored Crunch Berries. It even came with a packet of "lava rocks" that would pop in your milk!
- Cap'n Crunch's Sprinkled Donut Crunch: Released in 2014, this cereal has donut-flavored rings with colorful candy sprinkles.
- Cap'n Crunch's Blueberry Pancake Crunch: Released in 2016, this cereal features blue, light blue, and white puffs with blueberry and maple syrup flavors.
- Cap'n Crunch's Red, White & Blue Crunch/Hero Crunch/Freedom Crunch: A version of Oops! All Berries with red, white, and blue Crunch Berries, matching the colors of the U.S. Flag.
- Cotton Candy Crunch: Released in 2019, this is another Oops! All Berries variant with blue and pink Crunch Berries, tasting like cotton candy.
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See also
In Spanish: Cap'n Crunch para niños
