Almost 20 years later, in 2011, a “Bring Back Team Flakes” fan page went live on Facebook.25 Did Apple Jacks get smaller? What happened to Captain Crunch cereal? The Soggies have finally won: Cap’n Crunch is quietly sailing into retirement. Not only did folks enjoy them for breakfast, but quite a few recipes also called for the flakes. It was healthy and had a nice, light, crispy texture. Even though it was discontinued in 1993, folks still crave this cereal, which became the first four-grain (rice, wheat, corn and oats) flake cereal when it was introduced in 1963. Nabisco Team Flakes: I get more questions about the availability of this cereal by visitors to Topher’s Breakfast Cereal Character Guide than any other. World War I flying ace Baron Von Redberry would face off in the skies against his nemesis, Sir Grapefellow. The Baron’s cereal was very similar to Franken Berry, except that Redberry was essentially a berry-flavored Cheerio. General Mills’ Baron Von Redberry: I liked this berry-flavored cereal, but picked out the star-shaped marshmallow bits for my youngest brother Jay to consume. LaFoote was notorious for his attempts to steal Cap’n Crunch’s cargo of cereal, but was always thwarted by the Cap’n and his crew with the tagline “You can't get away with the Crunch, because the crunch always gives you away.” Today Quaker Oats Cinnamon Crunch: One of the best Cap’n Crunch spin-offs, this scoop-shaped corn-and-oats cereal laced with sugar and cinnamon featured Jean LaFoote, the Barefoot Pirate – my favorite pirate (sorry, Captain Jack Sparrow). Ralston Freakies: These sweetened cereal rings were made of corn, oats and wheat that supposedly grew on the Freakies Tree, which was inhabited by seven sci-fi critters, each with their own unique character traits and a crazy back story that showed off the creative team’s great sense of humor. Quisp has been sporadically revived in certain stores and on the Internet, but Quake has never come back. My brother Tom was quazy for Quisp (whose mascot was an extra-terrestrial) and I adopted a frenzy for Quake (that’s miner Quake with “Earthquake Power,” not the slimmed down “cowboy Quake.” Tom and I even had a set of helmets (Quake miner’s helmet with a working light, and Quisp’s beanie with a whirling propeller on top) that you could send away for. The only things that differentiated these two vitamin-powered, corn-based cereals were their shapes and their titular heroes. Quaker Oats Quake: As a kid, I was a huge Quisp and Quake fan. These are the top five discontinued cereals that I wish would make an encore (along with a seriously good prize). Like most of my generation, I can still relate to those characters and cereals – many of which no longer exist. We tried different rules, like taking turns and allowing the prize to got to whomever finished the box, but the law that prevailed was first come, first served. I had to fight with my two brothers for the latter.
I’m not sure which I liked more: the character on the box or the prize inside it. It was easy for me to identify with cereal mascots and characters, since many of them had running story lines that would span years, and they were frequent visitors during commercial breaks in my Saturday morning cartoons. I got my start eating cereal in the mid 1960s.
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