![]() ![]() Ahoy! Ahoy! Ahoy! Ahoy!Ĭap'n Crunch, everyone's favorite breakfast pirate, will be returning to television in commercials around the next year, because orange-flavoured crunch berries will be added to the existing four colorful fruity flavors of crunch berries. ![]() Keep the retro Cap'n on all of the boxes. Yo Cheerios, I'm-a let you finish, but Crunch Berries is the greatest cereal of all time.Ī tasty childhood favorite of mine. This cereal is sadly no longer available in Canada, but I always pick up a box when I am in the US. How in the WORLD does Vanilly Crunch have more votes than Crunch Berries? Nothing against Vanilly Crunch, but this one is the better of the two. I find it hard to believe that more people didn't graduate from Cap'n Crunch to Crunch Berries or Peanut Butter Crunch or others and just never go back. I am surprised that Crunch Berries isn't in the top 100. I think that many people click on Cap'n Crunch thinking it is Crunch Berries (or one of the other many Cap'n cereals). I wish to put forward as a basis of argument, that MANY of the votes for Cap'n Crunch are actually people not realizing that they are voting for the wrong cereal. That's a lot of work but it's well worth it to remember my growing up with Cap'n Crunch with Crunch Berries. I find myself picking out all the red berries and putting them inside of plain Cap'n Crunch. I would love if Cap'n Crunch with just red berries were for sale in stores in Wisconsin. Speaking of blue, the core flavor of this Slurpee feels like a fruit cocktail of tastes carefully proportioned to mimic the ambiguous, yet concentrated tropical sweetness of a Crunch Berry.Īnd it does a pretty good job: a strong burst of blueberry jelly is the prevailing note, while there are some other artificial fruits present for sophisticated palates-my admittedly troglodytic taste buds still sensed ribbons of lime, cherry, and yes, even raspberry behind Big Blue’s main wave.Ĭonsidering how few blueberry slushies I’ve seen in my life, this is a slam dunk gulp accomplishment on its own.What do you think of Crunch Berries (Cap'n Crunch)? ![]() This must have been what Carpenter’s Thing was after. Imagine the biting aura of a blue raspberry slushie, but delightfully isolated and infused into crystallized ice like some sort of ancient Antarctic totem. Thankfully, there is no corn or oat cereal taste to it (much like the underrated Sweetos slushie), but there is a pervasive syrup potency that, while it may sound cloying, goes a long way toward mimicking the coconut oily sheen of a Cap’n Crunch cereal piece. Crunch’s golden chests.īecause this is absolutely a fruit-driven Slurpee. To answer an even bigger question, 7-11’s Cap’n Crunch Berries Slurpee tastes almost exactly like its namesake cereal-though definitely more like Oops! All Berries than ol’ H.M. Why? Because not only is this the first ever collision of cereal and the classic convenience store beverage-a pairing that left some dubious and me, a slushie die-hard who has helped my neighborhood gas station stay (no joke) the busiest of its type in the state of Michigan, titillated-but it’s also super delicious.Īnd yes, its atomic turquoise color does leave your tongue looking like a flamboyant electric eel. And after trying 7-Eleven’s infinitely hype-able Cap’n Crunch’s Crunch Berries Slurpee, I’m convinced it deserves its own chapter, one worth driving all the way out to the only 7-Eleven in West Michigan to be a part of. These events will no-doubt earn diagrams, if not call-out boxes in any future cereal history book. In recent memory, a few spring to mind: the one-year resurrection of Frute Brute & Yummy Mummy monster cereals, the permanent revival of ’90s classics French Toast Crunch & Oreo O’s, and the documentary-worthy fall/rise of Tiny Toast & Honeycomb. ![]() Events that I end up referencing constantly in future reviews, party conversations, and poorly thought out wedding toasts. There are certain events in the cereal world that take on a great historic significance. ![]()
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