The Incredible Shrinking Cap’n

Is Cap’n Crunch getting smaller or are we just getting bigger?

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." 03:15 - The Try Guys: Eugene Ranks The Most Popular Cereals 04:30 - Peanut Butter Puffins 07:11 - A collection of tweets claiming Cap'n Crunch has shrunk 08:21 - My Brother, My Brother and Me 08:24 - Justin McElroy's cereal podcast The Empty Bowl 08:41 - Pete is monitoring the The McElroy Family website with something like urlwatch 09:38 - Cap'n Crunch's about page 12:31 - Greatest Hits: Huey Lewis And The News (YouTube) 16:29 - Here are photos of a box of Cap'n Crunch from 1995 with "partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil" listed as an ingredient. 18:38 - Jason Liebig on Twitter 18:44 - CollectingCandy.com 19:25 - Cap'n Crunch's Cotton Candy Crunch 21:53 - Jason's Instagram is fun but his Flickr is INCREDIBLE 23:50 - New York Times article from 1994 about the Doritos redesign 24:55 - You're probably tired of hearing about the Mandela effect by now. There's even a thriller film about it. 25:05 - An archived version of Wikipedia featuring "Hot and Cold Nerds." 25:16 - Nerds Hot and Cool - Discovered!!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 27:48 - Gabe eating Cap'n Crunch from the 90s on YouTube 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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