Underunderstood

The Incredible Shrinking Cap’n

12.17.2019 - By Select WorksPlay

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00:22 - Cap'n Crunch was created by Pamela Low in 1963.

01:50 - Urban Dictionary defines Cap'n Crunch Mouth as "When the roof of your mouth gets all torn up after eating Cap'n Crunch or some other rough food."

02:23 - Underunderstood: The 9/11 Hoax That Wasn't

03:15 - The Try Guys: Eugene Ranks The Most Popular Cereals

07:11 - A collection of tweets claiming Cap'n Crunch has shrunk

08:21 - My Brother, My Brother and Me

16:20 - Partially hydrogenated oils (or PHOs) were deemed to be no longer classifiable as GRAS (which means "Generally Recognized as Safe") by the FDA in 2015.

16:29 - Here are photos of a box of Cap'n Crunch from 1995 with "partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil" listed as an ingredient. It seems to have been replaced with "palm and/or coconut oil" in Cap'n Crunch currently sold in the United States.

18:38 - Jason Liebig on Twitter

18:44 - CollectingCandy.com

21:53 - Jason's Instagram is fun but his Flickr is INCREDIBLE

23:06 - Rockin' the 80’s – Tale of the 30-Year-Old Snickers

23:50 - New York Times article from 1994 about the Doritos redesign

25:05 - An archived version of Wikipedia featuring "Hot and Cold Nerds."

25:16 - Nerds Hot and Cool - Discovered!! A CollectingCandy.com World Premiere!!

25:49 - Statement from Quaker Foods

27:17 - Cereal Time TV - Gabe Fonseca's YouTube channel

27:46 - Gabe Fonseca on IMDB

27:48 - Gabe eating Cap'n Crunch from the 90s on YouTube

28:19 - Screenshot of Gabe holding old Cap'n Crunch up to the camera

29:46 - Gabe's measurement on the vintage Cap'n Crunch box

30:16 - Billy's photoshop to determine the size of 90s Cap'n Crunch

34:45 - Official written statement from Cap'n Crunch

Episode artwork by Phil Robibero

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