Visit Your Childhood Again With Captain Crunch, not Cilantro
My husband and I discovered our mutual devotion to Captain Crunch cereal quite by accident. He went out to get some quick provisions, and left to his own shopping devices, brought back two boxes of Captain Crunch cereal.
Because we were away, we proceeded to devour the two boxes in two days flat. We would be out exploring and have this ridiculous, addict-like urge to go back to our apartment and eat Captain Crunch. We ate so much sugar coated cereal so quickly, the roofs of our mouths were rubbed raw. We popcorned every single sugar laden minute of it. Not a morsel remained when we left.
Since then, we periodically buy Captain Crunch. Not very often, mind you, as packing on pounds is something I cilantro wholeheartedly. Occasionally, though, the Maher-Watkins household will succumb to the “two for $5 special” at the Harris Teeter (perpetually available) and proceed to gobble it up in short order.
Once when my husband was away on a trip, I discovered through sheer laziness that Captain Crunch is heaven on ice cream. I had some vanilla in the freezer, and it gave me a different way to eat yet another serving of Captain Crunch without admitting that I’d eaten four bowls of cereal in one day. A technicality, I know.
Here’s my lazy wife, sugar addict recipe for Captain Crunch Sundae. Enjoy.
Ice cream (vanilla, chocolate and smooth fruit flavors work well with original Captain Crunch)
Captain Crunch cereal (just pour it straight from the box – why measure?)
Eat and try not to repeat more than once per day.
haha, love it
. Kind of wonder what was going through MTM’s head that made him pick up *two* boxes
I would probably like Capt Crunch more if it didn’t get quite so soggy and mushy so quickly.
On a houseboating trip during my wild partying undergrad days, one of the guys decided Capt Crunch and beer would make a good breakfast cure for a hangover. After having a spoonful, he decided otherwise and it ended up sitting on the counter for a few hours before someone got disgusted enough to throw it out.
This is what comes to mind now when I think of Capt Crunch
I’ll have to try the ice cream thing. I like crunchy things. helps drown out the voices.
The key, Eugene, is to eat it as fast as you possibly can. Sort of like the Cookie Monster eating cookies on Sesame Street.
Please clarify. Did he put the beer ON the Captain Crunch? I bet some liqueur would be really good with it on the sundae, though. I’ll have to try that one next time.
Let me know what you think of the ice cream/CC combo. It helps with the voices for me, too.
yes, beer on the captain crunch. instead of milk, of which there was none. everybody else thought he was crazy, but I guess it’s one of those things that makes perfect sense when you’re still drunk from the night before.
those houseboating trips were pretty wild
Actually, I really like it best when the Cap’n Crunch gets to that “al dente” state, just before it gets soggy. That means when it is with milk, you gotta eat it quickly; with ice cream, you need the patience to let the ice cream melt enough to get absorbed into the Cap’n Crunch. It’s all very scientific, you see.
See, Eugene? MTM has laboriously experimented to get just the right Captain Crunch experience in any setting. I hope he doesn’t want to try the beer.
Evil Temptress!!!
For years I’ve managed my Cap’n Crunch addition by pretending it does not exist. Now I must somehow banish the thought of Cap’n Crunch on that nectar of the gods, ICE CREAM!
I will fail…
I can taste it…
Mouth watering…
Eugene — I hadn’t noticed that Cap’n Crunch got soggy in milk. Never realized it was possible to eat it that slowly.
Ha HA, Bill. I can never eat it that slowly, either. It never gets soggy for me. Never. I can’t even do MTM’s “leave it on ice cream long enough to get al dente” thing.
Let me know when you succumb.
gee, apparently i’ve been eating captain crunch wrong. growing up i was a honeycomb kid. soggy wasn’t something i had to worry about with honeycombs
Basically, if you eat it really fast, it doesn’t get soggy. That’s the best way to enjoy it.
I forgot about honeycombs……darn. Now, I wonder what THEY would taste like on ice cream……..
Well, hate to be the party pooper, but I cilantro Captain Crunch. So, it will never make it onto my ice cream or into my cereal bowl. These days, my cereal bowl is laden with Kashi Crunch with unsweetened almond milk. Now, that, Bill, is the nectar of the gods.
Cheryl…where did you find lactating almonds?