Cereal Talk: Captain Crunch Is Finally a REAL Captain

Captain Crunch will finally be a real Captain!

If you didn't know, Captain Crunch's uniform is wrong, and he wasn't truly a Captain after all -at leat according to his uniform. The gold stripes on his sleeve are below his rank, which is incorrect.

For Quaker Oats Captain Crunch cereal's big 60th anniversary, they will finally give him the uniform of a REAL captain.

Captain Horatio Magellan Crunch - his real name - has really earned the white in his mustache, and now he will earn his true rank. The gold stripes on his sleeve are below his rank. An American naval captain wears FOUR gold bars on his sleeves, but Captain Crunch has always had fewer, initially wearing only one bar (ensign), then two bars (lieutenant), and three bars (commander).

For the 60th anniversary, they have finally given him his FOUR bars.  There's an updated image on social media, with the caption, "The internet has spoken, and we listened.  Introducing:  My new look and my 4th stripe era!"

His next rank would be Admiral, but I don't think anyone is ready for Admiral Crunch.

Interesting Captain Crunch fact for Old-Schoolers: The character was created in 1963 by TV producer Allan Burns, who worked on "Rocky and Bullwinkle", and who co-created "The Munsters" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show".

Personally, I wasn't a big Captain Crunch lover, because it was lethal to the roof of my mouth. But there's a reason for that.

If it wasn't already apparent by the name, Captain Crunch's whole selling point is that it doesn't get soggy. Okay, yes, it will eventually get soggy, but it's at least supposed to stay crunchy a little longer than other kid cereals. The Captain does sail through a sea of milk on his ship, so avoiding sogginess was sorta his thing.

In the 1960s, Quaker Oats conducted a survey and asked kids what kinds of foods they liked. Kids under 10 highly preferred foods that were crunchy over ones that were soggy.

More fun facts about Captain Horatio Magellan Crunch

Captain Crunch was captain of the iconic S.S. Guppy

Jean LaFoote might not be that familiar to today's Cap'n Crunch fans, but he was a regular character in Jay Ward's old animated commercials for the cereal. He was based on real-life swashbuckler Jean Lafitte, Jean LaFoote was known as the barefoot pirate main objective was to capture the Cap'n and force him to tell the secret of "what makes Cap'n Crunch cereal so crunchy."

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He was born on Crunch Island, a magical island off the coast of Ohio and in the Sea of Milk, with talking trees, crazy creatures and a mountain (Mt. Crunchmore) made out of Cap'n Crunch cereal. Niiiice!

He wears a Bicorne "Napoleon-style" hat. This lead to speculation that he may be French. According to Crunch Facts, a news outlet dedicated to the mascot, Cap'n Horatio Crunch has a perfect 200 IQ.

The Captain found himself potentially walking the plank in 2011 after child obesity experts began to take a closer look at the marketing of sugary foods to children.