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Crunch Berries Not a Fruit, Judge Rules

Posted Jun 4th 2009 2:00PM by Sara Bonisteel
Filed under: Food News

This just in from the Department of Duh: Cap'N Crunch Crunch Berries are not a fruit.

Last month, a judge in California dismissed a claim brought by a woman who believed PepsiCo, the parent company of Cap'N Crunch manufacturer Quaker Oaks, had misled "reasonable consumers" with its colorful Crunch Berries.

"Plaintiff contends that the colorful Crunchberries, combined with use of the word 'berry' in the Product name, convey the message that Cap'n Crunch is not all sugar and starch, but contains redeeming fruit," the opinion says.

Find out what Judge Morrison C. England Jr. thought after the jump.

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Are Polish sweet-corn fingers really food?

Posted Feb 28th 2007 2:02PM by Joe DiStefano
Filed under: Snacks, Grains, Eastern Europe, Food Oddities

As many of you already know, I'm a huge fan of strange snack foods of many lands. Fishy junk food is a particular favorite. But when I tell you that the long, crunchy sticks pictured here are among the wierdest junk food I've ever eaten, it's not because they have an especially pungent or intense flavor, rather it's the lack thereof.

I'm not even sure whether Paleczki Kukurydziane qualify as food. For one thing, there's no nutrition facts panel on the package. Their texture resembles biodegradable packing peanuts that dissolve in water. To be fair, this Polish take on corn curls that translates to "Sweet-corn fingers," does have flavor: a vague hint of low-fat popcorn.

Obviously I know that these mutant corn snacks aren't packing material, but they might work in a pinch. I couldn't help hoping that when I visited the manufacturer's web site, I'd find that Unopol's primary business was plastics or industrial foams. No such luck, they seem to be a junk-food concern.

So the question remains: Why on earth would anyone eat these things? The only reason I can think of is that they can't stand Flips, Polish corn curls that have a more pronounced flavor: strawberry. The light-pink morsels taste disturbingly like Crunchberries.

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