"Cap'n Crunch and Diet Pepsi" (VL, Ch. 4, p. 40) For your fix of 80's cereals, visit this place. http://www.inthe80s.com/cereal.shtml Reminiscent of those other teams Mr. Pynchon appreciates; RC and Moonpie, Mason and Dixon, and so on. For your morning fix of Cap'n Crunch, visit this site http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~morin/misc/capn/