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 ...

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Key Points and Summary - This article, written by an Army veteran, explains the origin of the "crayon-eating Marine" joke as an inter-service "smack talk" stereotype that portrays Marines as "more ...

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.

You give a child a toy that looks like food and guess what? They’re gonna try eating it. That’s just what kids do, because they don’t know better and try to eat everything. Since everyone knows that, ...