While no one quite knows how the U.S. Marine Corps became synonymous with enjoying a rainbow menagerie of waxy children’s drawing instruments, the stereotype that devil dogs eat crayons is here ...

The earliest known crayon-eating Marine meme was posted to Imgur by user HarlemStruggle on August 24th, 2016, and gained over 2,000 upvotes in the following years.

Moving into 2015, the joke started to appear more and more: on Nov. 10, the Marine Corps’ 240th birthday, a brewery posted on Facebook that Ben & Jerry’s was offering crayon flavored ice cream.

Uriarte added that around 2015 or 2016, on the United States Marine Crops Facebook page, there was a joke that some U.S. Army soldier gave an MRE (Meal, Ready-to-Eat) to a Marine that consisted of ...

Cheers, Marines! There’s a craft crayon beer Sarah Sicard Wed, August 30, 2023 at 3:31 PM UTC 2 min read ...