Life’s most beautiful things are like fireworks: they’re here for a short time, they make us say ooh and ahh, and then they’re gone.
In this case, the awe-inspiring thing in question was here for such a short time that we thought it wasn’t, and the only ooh’ing and ahh’ing it made us do was when it cut up the roofs of our mouths.
To explain this demented odyssey, after some in-depth sleuthing last year, I reported that a red, white, blue, and totally unexpected Freedom Crunch cereal would be coming out. No matter how strange it was, I was convinced of its legitimacy after spotting it on reputable grocery sites.
But then I had to quickly redact my claims, after the Cap’n himself said it wasn’t a real product and another trustworthy source told me it was a scrapped product idea.
Cue months of radio silence, until I received an email with the above image, from a humble cereal lover who claimed the cereal did come out for Independence Day in his neck of the woods in Minnesota. He scooped a bunch of boxes and may now own the world’s only remaining supply of Freedom Crunch Cereal, which was somehow right under our noses for 3 months before I posted about it.
Why am I telling you this? Because whether or not I ever get to taste it, Freedom Crunch will go down in breakfast history as one of cereal’s great mysteries, right up there with PB&J Cereal, Cherry Vanilla Cheerios, and the legendary 2013 Pop-Tart Cereal.
If you know more about Freedom Crunch or any other mythical cereal cryptids, hit me up at cerealously.net@gmail.com and we’ll get to the bottom of it. The tasty truth is out there, people.
Same cereal this year will be called Red, White, and Blue Crunch. Many speculate the Freedom Crunch was so short lived because there is a company called Freedom Foods that does cereal and has a number of “crunch” cereals. May have been a Patent problem!
Do you happen to have a source or image for this? Very interested to learn more!
I am from Minnesota and would like to know what store that person got it from.
Let me guess… he wanted you to buy one of the boxes for a ridiculous amount of money? xD
Still: Doesn’t it feel great to be somehow right, especially after the Capn’ came and made you look just a bit dumb? (i choose “just a bit” ’cause even revealing some prototypes or a concept is awesome enough to not feel dumb; and yes dumb is the wrong word here, but right now my limited english (and german, ’cause i can’t even think of a better german word) skills won’t come up with a better one ;))
I’m actually pretty curious, why there are boxes that where sold with the “Freedom Crunch” design…
Accident, ’cause already produced boxes where sent to a few supermarkets, before Quaker decided the idea is not that great or it would be too late for independence day?
Just some boxes, that never really got out, but where obtained within some quaker inhouse sale? (Taken from the dumbster? xD)
Who knows…
Cheers!
(Gabe must be in a real struggle… right now it’s a pretty rare box… 😕)
I still think there’s a possibilty this stuff comes out this year for 4th of July — therefore these boxes won’t actually end up being too rare. But we’ll see…
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I cross my fingers!
Actually i also thought, that the freedom crunch design will come this year… but after this news and the questionable “fact” that they were already out I had doubts…
It’s still a possibility, but then again… why were they already sold… we’ll see and i really hope for you guys 🙂
Cheers!
Hello
I can’t seem to get ahold of this person with the Freedom Crunch boxes for sale.
Can you assist/advise me? Please!
David Elford
At: sandy.elford@gmail.com
Thanks!
David