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Cap\u2019n Crunch\u2019s Cotton Candy Crunch Cereal is a mystery to me, and a tongue twister.<\/p>\n
After peeling open the box, my nostrils got a whiff of cotton candy that made me curse the bag in my way I had to open to get to that sweet cotton candy flavor in cereal form. But when I opened the bag and tried to Hoover a stronger scent up my nose, all I got was a dull sweet smell that doesn\u2019t make me think of carnivals, fairs, and birthday parties for kids whose parents were richer than mine.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s even more disappointing is, when I eat it dry or wet, cotton candy flavor isn\u2019t something I get. Instead, I taste something I\u2019d consider to be Diet Crunchberries, which is a very light berry-like flavor that doesn\u2019t make me think of Ferris wheels, games designed to be almost impossible to win, or rides that aren\u2019t as scary as the natural disasters they\u2019re named after, like Typhoon, Hurricane, and Tornado.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s not entirely devoid of anything that tastes like those sugary clouds. There are moments, after finishing a bowl, that my taste buds will register something they consider to be \u201ccotton candy.\u201d But it\u2019s fleeting and several minutes past when the flavor should\u2019ve been there. <\/p>\n
I expected it to be as if someone bigger and stronger than me used my body as a cotton candy stick and twirled me around the cotton candy maker, wrapping the sugar treat around my head. And when I\u2019m pulled out, I look like a troll doll eating its hair. Sure, it\u2019s a lofty ideal, but I\u2019ve eaten half the box and I\u2019ve experienced nothing that\u2019s even a fraction of that.<\/p>\n
Cap\u2019n Crunch\u2019s Cotton Candy Crunch Cereal confuses me. It also taunts me. Every time I pass by the box sitting on my kitchen counter, I can smell that familiar aroma of spun sugar. It\u2019s as if the smell is the cereal\u2019s way of saying to me, \u201cI promise I\u2019ll taste like cotton candy this time.\u201d <\/p>\n
But when I give in by opening the bag, it\u2019s a different smell, and when I give in some more by crunching my way through another bowl, I don\u2019t get any cotton candy flavor. Am I imagining the aroma? Am I going crazy? Am I in the Twilight Zone?<\/p>\n
Purchased Price:<\/strong> $3.00 (on sale) Cap\u2019n Crunch\u2019s Cotton Candy Crunch Cereal is a mystery to me, and a tongue twister. After peeling open the box, my nostrils got a whiff of cotton candy that made me curse the bag in my way I had to open to get to that sweet cotton candy flavor in cereal form. But when I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1440],"tags":[1653,1472],"class_list":["post-37417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-capn-crunch","tag-cereal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37308,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2019\/06\/14\/spotted-capn-crunchs-cotton-candy-crunch-cereal\/","url_meta":{"origin":37417,"position":0},"title":"SPOTTED: Cap’n Crunch’s Cotton Candy Crunch Cereal","author":"Marvo","date":"June 14, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Hearing \"Crunch-A-Tize me Cap'n!\" makes me feel weird. 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\nSize:<\/strong> 11.4 oz. box
\nPurchased at:<\/strong> Target
\nRating:<\/strong> 5 out of 10
\nNutrition Facts:<\/strong> (1 1\/4 cup – cereal only) 150 calories, 1.5 grams of fat, 0.5 grams of saturated fat, 0 milligrams of cholesterol, 170 milligrams of sodium, 33 grams of carbohydrates, less than 1 gram of fiber, 17 grams of sugar, 1 gram of sugar alcohol, and 2 grams of protein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"