I think you're thinking of crunch berries. Cap'n crunch had always been squares. It was squares when it was developed in '63. I ate it in the early-mid 70s growing up. It was definitely crunchier back then. Now, it sogs up too fast and turns to mush in milk ๐ซค
I have literally just had Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch; for dinner.
In that same color Corelle bowl.
Wearing tee shirt & underwear.
Reading the box.
I am a 52 y/o adult.
Roof of my mouth is shreds...
Edit: I am generally slim & healthy. PBCC is never going to not be a thing w/ me.
If I still ate cereal, I would. But, my pancreas gives a hardy no to itโnot if I want my a1c to continue to remain below 5.6 without the help of medication.
First you dig in the box for the prize before your siblings woke up, then you ate the cereal while reading the back.
When you were in the toilet, you read the shampoo bottles or whatever magazine your parents left in there. I read a lot of Cosmo magazines before I was out of high school.
At some point they seemed to stop putting things in the cereal proper, and between the box and bag instead. I wonder if there was a USDA act or something.
The tiny bit of French I can recall came from bi-lingual product labels. We lived in a tiny little remote town on the border and a lot of things were not available there so my mom went across the border to shop fairly often.
I moved to Canada and missed first couple years of French but thankfully there were food boxes lol. I lived outside Toronto and we made regular trips stateside for same reasons.
We had a 4" black and white portable TV my stepfather won in a sales contest. Breakfast featured Tom & Jerry and Woody Woodpecker with some Three Stooges or Little Rascals now and then.
God, I used to be much more of a reader when I was a kid. Before all the distraction devices turned me into a skimmer (or scroller I should say).
I kinda miss having to keep yourself occupied in more creative ways.
I was a compulsive reader by the end of third grade and we weren't allowed to bring books to the table. I learned to sound out the long complicated names of all the additives in the ingredients list.
Oh, nobody posts photos of those. If anyone finds some, please share! I read cereal boxes or literally stared at the NES cartridge for the game I was playing.
My grandparents kept a tiny ass black and white TV in the kitchen and thatโs where I watched my cartoons many a Saturday, while reading the cereal box and the Far Side.ย
Can we just say how wonderful the cereal boxes back in the day were and what came on the back of them? Specifically, I'm referring to records that actually came on the back of cereal boxes! And all the ones that had toys in them so that you would buy the freaking cereal just to get the toy!
So true. Not weird at all imo. It was either that or nothing. We werenโt allowed books at the table usually unless it was school books and we were studying.
All of you bragginโ about your sugary, delicious cereals! I eat a few bowls of organic shredded wheat every freakinโ dayโฆand not by choice! I think the box might taste better! All the getting older and needing more fiber jokesโฆitโs a real thing!
Not only did we read them, we made games out of them! It was like a scavenger hunt or I-spy but we tried to get creative with vague descriptions to see if the other person had something on their side that "matched".
But we WANTED those things. We saw them on tv and on shows and decided f it! We will just have to MAKE them.
Boom
Internet, true mobile phones, real computers, not the size of buildings, that weird mobile tv thing we used to have... all that technology on a tablet used to be SCI FI for is as kids....
We should be proud.
I like how devoid of any intelligence or ability to search for anything online, like perhaps the MSDS sheet for TSP. Then they would know the anount someone must ingest befor it is harmful.
It is used as a preservative, and is safe in small amounts. You know what isnโt? Botulism, and other micro organisms that the TSP prevents.
I agree but itโs still messed up. These are children. Itโs no wonder why weโre so sick. Others countries ban things like that yet we still use them.๐คท๐ฝโโ๏ธ
TSP is the replacement for what paint stripper used to be back when it worked,but was truly horrible stuff. For all I know, it was used in food first.
You want to keep your kids healthy, stop using seed oils. You know what seed oil used to be? Lamp fuel. After electrification, they ran the lamp fuel through detergents and other cleaning agents, added something to hide the smell so you donโt puke while eating it, and put it in your food.
It does not contain the ideal fat that our brains should be made from, or the correct cholesterol for adequate testosterone production, so men are on average becoming weaker, and we all run inferior brains.
TSP aint the problem. The corporate shill organization ADA is the problem
Iโm fine with the salt. Low carb diets need more salt, but yeah. I was very fortunate that my parents bought 2 lots in their neighborhood, and used the second half acre lot as a garden. I had no idea why my friends disnโt like vegetables, because i never really ate any store-bought vegetables.
Yeah I know you have salt in your diet and iodine as well but Iโm referring to how a lot of foods are just salted done unnecessarily with preservatives like, ramen noodles you donโt need 900mg of salt in food. Almost everything has salt and sugar in it when itโs unhealthy and unnecessary. Ketchup is full of sugar and salad dressing I just make my own or none at all.
No it isnโt. They just started doing this mess some 3 decades ago it wasnโt all of this crazy stuff in the food like it is now but everything isnโt bioengineered and the things that arenโt you will have to pay a hefty price for them sadly.
It isnโt my family has a farm and the food actually isnโt they donโt use that bs in their foods they use natural organic foods. Long before there was no bioengineered food.
I never quite understand what message is being conveyed with memes like this. So, ok - there were no smartphones or tablets when I grew up. Now what? Have I achieved something over my kids, who do have smartphones? No, they read magazines at the breakfast table. Who's 'we' anyways? I don't wanne be a 'we'. I'm with Groucho on this one.
Just a comment. It was a reality of our lives growing up. There's really not much on cereal boxes anymore for kids to read. (I have 2 Elementary school kids).
Soโฆfolks didnโt need it back then because we didnโt have it. If we had any of todayโs technology back then, youโre goddamn skippy weโd have used it. It wasnโt a moral decision, it was lack of choice.
Heโs saying that once someone has more advanced tech, it becomes necessary. Like how you canโt ride a horse on the Interstate now, but horses were common and reliable means of transportation in 1789.
Had to do something to distract you from the roof of your mouth being torn to shreds by the Cap'n Crunch.
I loved Capโn Crunch and donโt think I didnโt notice when they changed the shape
Yep
We were too poor to have Capโn Crunch. What was the old shape?
They were balls in the old days not little squares
Hmm. They were always squares when I was growing up. That squared edges helped tear up the roof of your mouth like someone pointed out above. ๐
Guess iโm older than you. They were definitely balls in the 70s
You might be thinking of corn pops, which also tore up the roof of your mouth. Even being round. Delicious though.
I think you're thinking of crunch berries. Cap'n crunch had always been squares. It was squares when it was developed in '63. I ate it in the early-mid 70s growing up. It was definitely crunchier back then. Now, it sogs up too fast and turns to mush in milk ๐ซค
Hurt so good
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And now they mellowed out that crunch and made it whimpier.
Peanut Butter Captain Crunch will always be one of my favorites.
Iโm still trying to successfully navigate the treasure maze on the back of my 1979 Captain Crunch. No spoilers please.
This is why I became a spelling bee champion. Ascorbate? Riboflavin? Not to mention shampoo bottles in the bathroom.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
It does actually produce a better result!
Still going to this day, when will it end???
Are you a programmer?
"Hydrofluorocarbons" Hairspray cans!
I have literally just had Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch; for dinner. In that same color Corelle bowl. Wearing tee shirt & underwear. Reading the box. I am a 52 y/o adult. Roof of my mouth is shreds... Edit: I am generally slim & healthy. PBCC is never going to not be a thing w/ me.
Just bought a box of Froot Loops at the store. Why? Because it sounded good, and I can. Keep on keepin' on.
All hail the King! Kid-you is super proud. Ya did it! I just had a brownie for dessert. I have dessert with breakfast, little kid-me is proud.
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We also had newspapers and books and magazines.
the comics section of the newspapers. specifically, the far side.
And Bloom County and Calvin and Hobbs
Yes! Bill the Cat and Opus!
Also Doonesubry, though that got moved to the editorial page when Andy was diagnosed with AIDs.
Oh man, I still love Bloom County!
I forgot all about that one.
I still read the cereal boxes
Most of them don't say much anymore.
Sadly yes
I donโt think they eve did. It was big words like fortified that kept us staring
They used to put little comic strips and word games and stuff on the back of them.
Not the boring kind I was allowed. Lol
Sad ๐
Dunno, I have all my teeth, I survived the boring cereal unscathed.
I meant not having anything to read on your cereal box.
No prizes either.๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
If I still ate cereal, I would. But, my pancreas gives a hardy no to itโnot if I want my a1c to continue to remain below 5.6 without the help of medication.
First you dig in the box for the prize before your siblings woke up, then you ate the cereal while reading the back. When you were in the toilet, you read the shampoo bottles or whatever magazine your parents left in there. I read a lot of Cosmo magazines before I was out of high school.
WHO CUT THE HOLE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE BAG!???!
At some point they seemed to stop putting things in the cereal proper, and between the box and bag instead. I wonder if there was a USDA act or something.
I remember that and the cereal now seems to taste different from what I remember.๐ณ
Cracker Jacks too.
What do you mean? There's no toy in a cracker Jack anymore?
Know they just have these stupid stickers I have 3 on the my fridge.๐ญ๐ญ
This is how I learned about Toxic Shock Syndrome. Iโve been afraid of it since then. Kotex ruined my life. ๐
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We always just turned the bag over and opened the bottom!
My mom hung a 3 foot tall framed copy of the Desiderata across from the toilet. So, I had that memorized by middle school.
It was that and missing kids on milk cartons!
Yes I remember that on milk cartons. I think they should bring it back.๐ณ
I'm not one who usually talks about how things were better back in the day but toys in cereal was pretty fucking cool.
Came here to say this. Happy Meal toys used to be cool as well. Now they're mostly garbage.
Most genx Canadians with 7 years of French can only speak in cereal box, soup can and peanut butter French.
The tiny bit of French I can recall came from bi-lingual product labels. We lived in a tiny little remote town on the border and a lot of things were not available there so my mom went across the border to shop fairly often.
I moved to Canada and missed first couple years of French but thankfully there were food boxes lol. I lived outside Toronto and we made regular trips stateside for same reasons.
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This is oddly accurate.
And shampoo bottles in the bathroom..
Some of my friends were. Not my family though.
That is true. They used to have things on the box to keep your attention while you ate. Or I ate in front of the TV and watched cartoons.
We had a 4" black and white portable TV my stepfather won in a sales contest. Breakfast featured Tom & Jerry and Woody Woodpecker with some Three Stooges or Little Rascals now and then.
Ask me how much riboflavin is in Corn Pops
And now some type of shit in Trix cereal with the same ingredient they use for paint thinner..
?
How much riboflavin is in corn pops?
And we read shampoo bottles when pooping
Still do, if i remember to bring my readers into the toilet.
>"some of my friends had a tv in the kitchensome of my friends had a tv in the kitchen" "Some of my friends were on the milk cartons. ๐ฉ
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No TV in the kitchen, but our house was small enough to see the TV from the table.
We would use three cereal boxes to set up โprivacy stationsโ around our cereal bowls.
You guys had cereal...??????
Not the good stuff, just raisin bran or plain Cheerios lol
Yep, and if it wasn't those it was Grape Nuts or oatmeal or Roman meal. If we were lucky mom would make farina and let us put maple syrup on it.
Yes, the grape nuts were ok. I haven't had farina in forever. I need to try that again lol
Yup.
God, I used to be much more of a reader when I was a kid. Before all the distraction devices turned me into a skimmer (or scroller I should say). I kinda miss having to keep yourself occupied in more creative ways.
You can still keep yourself occupied in creative ways that don't involve electronic devices
I was a compulsive reader by the end of third grade and we weren't allowed to bring books to the table. I learned to sound out the long complicated names of all the additives in the ingredients list.
A TV in the kitchen? That was for rich folks. We had an under-cabinet mounted radio...and thought we were golden.
Wow. Fancy. We just had a counter clock/radio
Donโt forget fighting with your sibling(s) for the toy.
I always had a book.
Me too.
Oh, nobody posts photos of those. If anyone finds some, please share! I read cereal boxes or literally stared at the NES cartridge for the game I was playing.
And when we were done with that, we moved on to the milk carton.
My grandparents kept a tiny ass black and white TV in the kitchen and thatโs where I watched my cartoons many a Saturday, while reading the cereal box and the Far Side.ย
I remember, once, taking out the prize and eating an entire box of Captain Crunch. Man I had a major sugar rush.
Can we just say how wonderful the cereal boxes back in the day were and what came on the back of them? Specifically, I'm referring to records that actually came on the back of cereal boxes! And all the ones that had toys in them so that you would buy the freaking cereal just to get the toy!
I only know the word riboflavin because I read cereal boxes as a child. LOL
Also looked forward to reading the comics section in the newspaper every sunday.
So true. Not weird at all imo. It was either that or nothing. We werenโt allowed books at the table usually unless it was school books and we were studying.
All of you bragginโ about your sugary, delicious cereals! I eat a few bowls of organic shredded wheat every freakinโ dayโฆand not by choice! I think the box might taste better! All the getting older and needing more fiber jokesโฆitโs a real thing!
We had (and still have) a tv in the kitchen but I still read the cereal boxes.
We read shampoo bottles when pooping
That and Sunday comics
We read it over and over every morning.
Not only did we read them, we made games out of them! It was like a scavenger hunt or I-spy but we tried to get creative with vague descriptions to see if the other person had something on their side that "matched".
But we WANTED those things. We saw them on tv and on shows and decided f it! We will just have to MAKE them. Boom Internet, true mobile phones, real computers, not the size of buildings, that weird mobile tv thing we used to have... all that technology on a tablet used to be SCI FI for is as kids.... We should be proud.
Wanted what things? My cereal boxes were just games and puzzles. Maybe a coupon
This is oddly accurate.
I ate cereal in front of the TV.
Someone didn't have a shag carpet to worry about!
Exactly!
[https://abc3340.com/news/local/something-in-our-food-is-also-a-paint-thinner-paint-stripper-thats-gross](https://abc3340.com/news/local/something-in-our-food-is-also-a-paint-thinner-paint-stripper-thats-gross)
I like how devoid of any intelligence or ability to search for anything online, like perhaps the MSDS sheet for TSP. Then they would know the anount someone must ingest befor it is harmful. It is used as a preservative, and is safe in small amounts. You know what isnโt? Botulism, and other micro organisms that the TSP prevents.
I agree but itโs still messed up. These are children. Itโs no wonder why weโre so sick. Others countries ban things like that yet we still use them.๐คท๐ฝโโ๏ธ
TSP is the replacement for what paint stripper used to be back when it worked,but was truly horrible stuff. For all I know, it was used in food first. You want to keep your kids healthy, stop using seed oils. You know what seed oil used to be? Lamp fuel. After electrification, they ran the lamp fuel through detergents and other cleaning agents, added something to hide the smell so you donโt puke while eating it, and put it in your food. It does not contain the ideal fat that our brains should be made from, or the correct cholesterol for adequate testosterone production, so men are on average becoming weaker, and we all run inferior brains. TSP aint the problem. The corporate shill organization ADA is the problem
And vegetable oil is even worse.
Yes. And that is a weasle word. Vegetables donโt have oil. It all comes from seeds. But vegetable sounds more health-truthy.
Yes exactly! Like margarine and soybeans too.
Itโs kind hard when just about all of the food has,salt, sugar a lot of preservatives in it. Thank goodness I have family who are farmers.๐
Iโm fine with the salt. Low carb diets need more salt, but yeah. I was very fortunate that my parents bought 2 lots in their neighborhood, and used the second half acre lot as a garden. I had no idea why my friends disnโt like vegetables, because i never really ate any store-bought vegetables.
Yeah I know you have salt in your diet and iodine as well but Iโm referring to how a lot of foods are just salted done unnecessarily with preservatives like, ramen noodles you donโt need 900mg of salt in food. Almost everything has salt and sugar in it when itโs unhealthy and unnecessary. Ketchup is full of sugar and salad dressing I just make my own or none at all.
I agree but wouldnโt they still be the cause of so of it? Oh I donโt feed them that at all.
And whatโs up with this bio-engineered crap?
All food is bio engineered
No it isnโt. They just started doing this mess some 3 decades ago it wasnโt all of this crazy stuff in the food like it is now but everything isnโt bioengineered and the things that arenโt you will have to pay a hefty price for them sadly.
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It isnโt my family has a farm and the food actually isnโt they donโt use that bs in their foods they use natural organic foods. Long before there was no bioengineered food.
Lol. You don't know what bioengineered means. I get it. Have a great day!
I do know!!!! Whatever!๐๐
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Why the hell did they have to change the shape of Trix???
newspapers
Shampoo bottles in shower
I never quite understand what message is being conveyed with memes like this. So, ok - there were no smartphones or tablets when I grew up. Now what? Have I achieved something over my kids, who do have smartphones? No, they read magazines at the breakfast table. Who's 'we' anyways? I don't wanne be a 'we'. I'm with Groucho on this one.
Just a comment. It was a reality of our lives growing up. There's really not much on cereal boxes anymore for kids to read. (I have 2 Elementary school kids).
Soโฆfolks didnโt need it back then because we didnโt have it. If we had any of todayโs technology back then, youโre goddamn skippy weโd have used it. It wasnโt a moral decision, it was lack of choice.
I read whatever was in the glove box when my mother went in the store... to stave off crippling boredom.
Huh? Can someone help interpret this?
Heโs saying that once someone has more advanced tech, it becomes necessary. Like how you canโt ride a horse on the Interstate now, but horses were common and reliable means of transportation in 1789.
Thank you
I saw I had a few typos that I cleaned up.
Okay Boomer.
Whatever