FROM THE DAILY NEWS
Is Cap'n Crunch impersonating a Navy captain? Uniform lacks fourth stripe
Batten down the hatches! Cap’n Crunch is battling rumors that he is a fraud who was never promoted past the rank of commander. 'What’s in a name? That which we call Cap’n Crunch, by any other name would taste as sweet,' tweeted @RealCapnCrunch.
BY MICHAEL WALSH / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 2013, 2:40 PM
COREY SIPKIN/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Some say Horatio Magellan Crunch is really a Navy commander, others say his Napoleon-style hat gives him away as French.
"Oops! All Berries" wasn't Cap'n Crunch's only blunder.
The legendary cereal seaman has come under fire for allegedly impersonating a naval captain. Actual U.S. Navy captains wear four bars on their uniforms but Crunch only sports three — outing him as merely a commander, one rank below captain.
The seafarer's golden reputation seemed to have gone soggy in a milky sea of white lies.
The "cheery Santa Claus in a blue Napoleon hat is really just a big, fat LIAR," lamented Charisma Madarang of Foodbeast.
But Crunch, whose full name is Horatio Magellan Crunch, did not let this attack on his honor slide, just as he did not let his nemesis, the conniving pirate Jean LaFoot, ruin breakfasts for children the world over.
The man who first set sail for the grocery stores in 1963 asserted that he does in fact captain the S.S. Guppy with his crew, "which makes an official Cap'n in any book!"
"Regarding today's rumors ... of course I'm a Cap'n! It's the Crunch — not the clothes — that make a man. #PaidMyDues," @RealCapnCrunch tweeted.
The controversy began with confused cereal lovers but rose through the ranks all the way to the Pentagon who divulged that Crunch has no military records whatsoever, reported The Wall Street Journal.
"We have no Cap'n Crunch in the personnel records — and we checked," said Lt. Commander Chris Servello, director of the U.S. Navy's Pentagon news desk.
"We have notified NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) and we're looking into whether or not he's impersonating a naval officer — and that's a serious offense."
Some supporters speculate that Crunch's naval history could not be found in the government archives because he is, they claim, a Frenchman.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/eats/cap-crunch-called-imposter-navy-article-1.1378162#ixzz2XAo1ZLz1
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