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Ky-Guy
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| Ryan MacClanathan (Life.com) wrote: |
The Soggies have finally won: Cap'n Crunch is quietly sailing into retirement.
Long derided by health experts for its high sugar content – a single serving contains 12 grams – the cereal is no longer being actively marketed by Quaker, DailyFinance reports. It appears parent company Pepsico is forcing the good Cap'n to walk the plank.
Cap'n Crunch was once the No. 1 breakfast cereal, but pressure from the White House and health activists is having an effect on how PepsiCo and other food companies peddle their products to kids. Sales of the cereal were down 6.8 percent in 2010.
Last year, PepsiCo vowed to reduce added sugar per serving by 25 percent and saturated fat by 15 percent in its products over the next 10 years.
"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."
The critics have a point: Children cereals contain 85 percent more sugar, 65 percent less fiber and 60 percent more sodium when compared with adult cereals, according to the Rudd Center research. The average preschooler has viewed more than 500 television ads for such cereals. |
Source: "Cap'n Crunch sails into obscurity"
I really don't know what to say to this. I love Cap'n Crunch, especially the Peanut Butter Crunch, so I'm kind of saddened that Cap'n Crunch is leaving us. I know that childhood obesity is a serious problem, but it still sickens me that the good Cap'n is leaving us. 
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Jack Slater
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I dunno why it's Cap'n Crunch they have to single out, lord knows there are other cereals that are just as bad if not worse. Lucky Charms, anyone?
Anyway, you shouldn't eat cereal at all. Horrible for you, not nutritious in the slightest. I do enjoy some Cap'n Crunch on occasion, but if I do eat breakfast it's eggs and some kind of meat.
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Slayer1
Title: ,,!,, for you know who
Joined: Sep 23 2008
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I say we give the Captain a 21 gun salute...
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Undeath
Title: Facepuncher of Asses
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I don't think the solution is to get rid of the cereal. I think the solution is to not let your fucking kids take shovelfuls of cereal into their mouths. Really.
So now, all of us who love Cap'n Crunch, are going to have to do without because a couple of housefraus who can't be bothered with supervising their kids' sugar intake are turning into blubbery whaleasses. I hate that everyone suffers because people refuse to take some fucking responsibility.
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"MARGARINE IS ONE MOLECULE AWAY FROM PLASTIC."
Not only is that not right, that's not even wrong. It's a meaningless statement. Saying something is "one molecule away" from plastic is like saying a farm is one letter away from a fart. Water is "one molecule away" from being explosive hydrogen gas. |
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Optimist With Doubts
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Didn't they decide to stop airing capn crunch commercials to kids ages ago?
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The Opponent
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So I guess we can look forward to Syd's article on it in 2026?
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Black Zarak
Title: Big Coffin Hunter
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Fuck that shit! I love Cap'n Crunch!
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TARDISman
Title: Time Traveller
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He'll be Crunchatizing Odin in the halls of Valhalla...
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Optimist With Doubts
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Again it seems as if the ADS for captain crunch are stopping not the cereal itself.
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Jack Slater
Title: Friendly Felon
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I miss the commercials for Malt-O-Meal, enlightening me how I could save so much money by buying their generic versions in gigantic plastic bags as opposed to stuffy cardboard boxes.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
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I haven't had peanut butter Crunch in a zillion years!
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sidewaydriver
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This is Michelle Obama's doing. She can suck my Crunch Berries.
God bless you Captain Horatio Magellan Crunch, you'll always be the captain of my heart.
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Valdronius
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I wish I had known this when I was at the store today. I would have bought a box to save.
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GPFontaine
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Every time that I ate that cereal it would cut the roof of my mouth...
But it tasted so fucking good.
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Syd Lexia
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| Optimist With Doubts wrote: |
| Again it seems as if the ADS for captain crunch are stopping not the cereal itself. |
Yeah, having read the actual quoted article instead of just reacting the headline, there is no indication that production of the cereal is going to stop. All that is being said is that they will no longer spend marketing dollars to push the cereal.
I just said this in another thread, but reading comprehension, people. Look into it. Words have meaning based on their placement and context. When you skim something, you often confuse word placement and ignore context.
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Shut up, Dorn
Title: White Chocolate
Joined: Jan 04 2008
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There are so many cereals better than the Cap'n, but he had the biggest nostalgia value. Reese's puffs are the best high-sugar cereal, and high-sugar cereals deserve a part of the breakfast cereal market - so the hell those "advocates" who know better. We know they're not
The good thing we can take out of this: When our kids are 10-14, we can say we ate a shitfuckload of the Cap'n back in 95, lol.
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
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cap'n crunch rules.
that is all
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| I'll eat a turkey sandwich while blowing my load |
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Beach Bum
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Meh Cap'n was pretty nasty anyway. It always left this weird waxy film on the roof of my mouth as a kid and I haven't really eaten it since. I for one will not miss it.
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Optimist With Doubts
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
| Optimist With Doubts wrote: |
| Again it seems as if the ADS for captain crunch are stopping not the cereal itself. |
Yeah, having read the actual quoted article instead of just reacting the headline, there is no indication that production of the cereal is going to stop. All that is being said is that they will no longer spend marketing dollars to push the cereal.
I just said this in another thread, but reading comprehension, people. Look into it. Words have meaning based on their placement and context. When you skim something, you often confuse word placement and ignore context. |
And they have seemed to miss your post too.
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
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and its not like i ever watch commercials anymore, thanks to DVR's and what not.
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| I'll eat a turkey sandwich while blowing my load |
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MellowMeek
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| GPFontaine wrote: |
Every time that I ate that cereal it would cut the roof of my mouth...
But it tasted so fucking good. |
Amen. I actually nearly choked on it once, but recovered and continued to crunchatize.
So it's not going away, that's good. I think I'll buy a box in celebration!
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SNESGuy
Title: El Duderino
Joined: Jul 31 2010
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This isnt happening.....its not happening.....fuck this is happening
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Jack Slater
Title: Friendly Felon
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| SnesGuy wrote: |
| This isnt happening.....its not happening.....fuck this is happening |
It's not happening.
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FNJ
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Ky-Guy
Title: Obscure Nintendo Gamer
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Location: Michigan
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
| Optimist With Doubts wrote: |
| Again it seems as if the ADS for captain crunch are stopping not the cereal itself. |
Yeah, having read the actual quoted article instead of just reacting the headline, there is no indication that production of the cereal is going to stop. All that is being said is that they will no longer spend marketing dollars to push the cereal.
I just said this in another thread, but reading comprehension, people. Look into it. Words have meaning based on their placement and context. When you skim something, you often confuse word placement and ignore context. |
My bad, then. I guess I had misinterpreted the entire article. I guess I took it the wrong way because, directly or not, made mentions of childhood obesity.
Plus, the article made this statement:
"The Soggies have finally won: Cap'n Crunch is quietly sailing into retirement."
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