![]() He pointed out other things that he allegedly found in the box along with the “shrimp tails” including string, a pea shaped object, and pieces of cereal with odd black marks on them. The cereal brand owned by General Mills responded via Twitter to Karp, saying that the shrimp-tail-like objects weren’t seafood, but an accumulation of the cinnamon sugar that sometimes can. ![]() It’s because of this level of seriousness that it’s highly doubtful Karp is making this up. The company asked me to DM them, they apologized, sent me a coupon for a free 12-pack, and that was that. As an example for something even lesser in nature to this, I received a free 12-pack of Diet Coke when I tweeted about how one of the cans in my 12-pack was completely empty despite being fully sealed with no puncture marks. Companies, for the most part, do try to treat these incidents with the severity that they deserve. In all seriousness though, as rare as issues like these are, they are extremely unsettling when they do come up. Just wait until you get to the part about asparagus beetles. But if you are interested, here’s a nice little link from their official website. To go even further, you don’t even want to know what the FDA allows within its acceptable guidelines to be found in food products. If you’re squeamish, do yourself a favor and never look up ANYTHING online about what things people have found in food before. Writer, comedian and podcast host Jensen Karp shared a photo of the cereal package on Monday (March 22) with what appeared to be shrimp tails. The idea of finding foreign objects in food is ghastly. Cinnamon Toast Crunch and its parent company, General Mills, are receiving criticism after a viral post showed shrimp tails and rat droppings in the cereal. Pun initially not intended, but in retrospect, totally intended. Karp seems to be taking all of this in stride and decently good-humor but it doesn’t make the whole situation itself any easier to stomach. Should I take MY shrimp tail to a lab? I’m all-in. Karp would disclose in a screenshot of a direct message exchange with the Cinnamon Toast Crunch account that they’re requesting he send in the foreign objects he found for further examination. If one clump looked like a shrimp tail and another like the face of James Spader, maybe we’d be having a different discussion right now. The official explanation of “an accumulation of the cinnamon sugar that sometimes can occur when ingredients aren’t thoroughly blended” could be plausible if it weren’t for just how much the foreign objects actually do resemble shrimp tails, and how highly unlikely it would be for two different cinnamon sugar accumulations to take on similar forms. The official Cinnamon Toast Crunch account responded back sincerely, though Karp and others seemed to think the explanation provided was laughable. We assure you that there's no possibility of cross contamination with shrimp.- Cinnamon Toast Crunch March 22, 2021 After further investigation with our team that closely examined the image, it appears to be an accumulation of the cinnamon sugar that sometimes can occur when ingredients aren't thoroughly blended. ![]()
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