Crayons Ready to Eat are every Marine's dream. (Courtesy of Frank Manteau) While finishing up a work project, Marine-veteran-turned-carpenter Frank Manteau decided to employ the use of a popular piece ...

After years of confronting ridicule for being an illiterate branch whose personnel enjoy a nice wax snack after learning how to war from coloring books, Marines everywhere can rejoice — edible crayons ...

Marines, as the joke goes, eat crayons. If you’ve spent any time in or around the U.S. military in the last decade, you’ve probably heard some variation of it. Whether it’s that a Marine doesn’t know ...

A common stereotype about Marines is that they eat crayons. (Lance Cpl. Cesar N. Contreras/Marine Corps; Canva; Sarah Sicard/Staff) There are a few simple truths in life: The Earth is round. The Sun ...

A Marine veteran has spent the last several years trying to turn a joke at the Corps’ expense into a successful business, and it looks like he’s nearly there with Crayons Ready to Eat. Created by ...

The longstanding joke about U.S. Marines eating crayons has roots that are deeply embedded within military culture. This humorous stereotype, which has been the subject of both jest and criticism, has ...

If you were to ask me directly if Marines eat crayons, my personal answer would have to be yes… But there are some mitigating circumstances. If you’ve spent some time in uniform, you’re probably ...

When Frank Manteau joined the Marine Corps in 1995, the "eating crayons" joke didn't exist quite yet. He was used to the more timeless derogatory words, such as "jarhead" and "bullet sponges." Neither ...

Over the years U.S. Marines have inexplicably come to be dubbed Crayon Eaters. This, as Marine websites are quick to explain, is because they’re known, jokingly, as the dumbest branch of the military.

If you've spent any time around military meme pages or gaming forums, you might have seen jokes portraying a jarhead gnawing on a Crayola stick or a tray of crayons captioned like a gourmet meal. The ...