![]() ![]() "You're being super sketchy and odd," he wrote to the company, "when this was a very easy PR response to make people feel assured you care about your products.Jensen Karp started off the week by going viral for finding what appeared to be sugar-coated shrimp tails in a box of his Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal. ![]() Karp replied that he would be sending them nothing. Tweeting screenshots of his exchanges with General Mills, Karp said the company reached out again via direct message and asked him to wait Wednesday for FedEx and then turn over the items Karp and Fishel had found, plus all the packaging. So, I hope everyone is happy."Ī Costco spokesperson said Wednesday that management had "no comment at this time." Anyway, I’m testing the DNA of a shrimp tail now. I originally approached them thinking it would help out! Then, they said I’m mistaking sugar for a crustacean. It’s a deadly allergy to many (and non-Kosher) and that didn’t seem to matter beyond offering me a new box. "Not to investigate the issue or look into it. "My point is - their initial reaction to shellfish being in the bag was to tell me it was sugar," he continued. "I want to also explain this: I have NO idea how this stuff got in my cereal bags and neither does It definitely could’ve been contaminated in the Costco (though that doesn’t explain the squares with black stuff COOKED on it or the sugar coating on the shrimp). Also, a research company will be paying to DNA test the shrimp tail! (2021, y’all)," he said in a tweet thread. "I am now in touch with a testing lab re: the 'black things,' which I will not yet be calling by any other name for my own sanity. Also, a research company will be paying to DNA test the shrimp tail! (2021, y’all) Some updates: I am now in touch with a testing lab re: the “black things,” which I will not yet be calling by any other name for my own sanity. "These are obviously shrimp tails, so I will be keeping one as evidence, as I now feel like Sandra Bullock in The Net," tweeted Karp, who did not respond immediately Tuesday to The Times' request for an interview. I wasn’t all that mad until you now tried to gaslight me?"Ībout an hour later, he said the company wanted him to send them the items for a "closer look." "hese are cinnamon coated SHRIMP TAILS, you weirdos. ![]() "We assure you that there's no possibility of cross contamination with shrimp," the company said via direct message to Karp, adding that it also wanted to offer him General Mills vouchers to make up for his "unpleasant experience."Ĭiting "further investigation with my eyes," Karp called BS on that explanation. The company told Karp later in the day that its team's investigation of the images he had posted led them to believe the mystery ingredients were "an accumulation of the cinnamon sugar that sometimes can occur when ingredients aren't thoroughly blended." Yep, they looked like a couple of shrimp tails. "Ummmm - why are there shrimp tails in my cereal? (This is not a bit)," Karp tweeted Monday morning after eating a bowl of the cereal and then seeing a couple of sugar-coated things in the package that didn't look like the cereal's traditional rice-and-wheat squares. This was not what Times food columnist Lucas Kwan Peterson had in mind when he ranked Cinnamon Toast Crunch at the top of his official breakfast cereal power rankings a couple of years back. It goes without saying: Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal should not include cinnamon-crusted shrimp tails.īut according to writer-producer-podcaster Jensen Karp, a family pack from a local Costco had just that - along with a piece of string, a "weird cinnamon covered pea thing" and "black things" baked into some squares and lurking at the bottom of the bag. Writer-producer Jensen Karp, with actor wife Danielle Fishel, has captured Twitter's attention with his story about finding something unexpected in his cereal. ![]()
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