![]() ![]() “You just told me it wasn’t shrimp tails.” In another screenshot posted by Karp, they tried to offer him some vouchers to compensate for the “unpleasant experience” but he refused. It’s unclear what the company had to say to that. “I’m going to keep one of the two (shrimp tails),” he wrote, “because your last response publicly was super weird and since you’ll be receiving a shrimp tail, I’ll keep one so you don’t try to say it’s sugar and make me look insane?” They are shrimp tails,” he wrote in a direct message to the company.Ī spokesperson responded, asking Karp to put the shrimp tails in a pre-paid envelope and send it to them so they can have it checked out. He also posted screenshots of a private exchange with the cereal company, in which he attempted to give them a second chance to rectify the situation. Karp revealed that he had already eaten a bowl of the cereal and had since covered the box in Post-it notes warning others not to touch it. Several other social media users also criticized the brand for their response to Karp, arguing that the cereal could have been dangerous to those with a Podcast host Dana Schwartz called the company’s gaslighting “a national scandal.” “Yo that’s shrimp CT CRUNCH!” Rogen tweeted. Karp included a close-up photo of the alleged shrimp tails in the palm of his hand.Ĭanadian actor Seth Rogen piped up in defence of Karp. I wasn’t all that mad until you now tried to gaslight me?” Karp immediately responded: “After further investigation with my eyes, these are cinnamon coated SHRIMP TAILS, you weirdos. “We assure you that there’s no possibility of cross contamination with shrimp.” “It appears to be an accumulation of the cinnamon sugar that sometimes can occur when ingredients aren’t thoroughly blended,” the company tweeted. Two hours later, the company tweeted that it had investigated the photo and come to the conclusion that there were no shrimp tails in Karp’s cereal box after all. Fair warning, I look different since eating your shrimp today,” he later tweeted, posting a close-up photo of a shrimp. , to which Karp jokingly quipped that he’s “not sure I’m ready for another box!” ![]() “Can you please send us a DM to collect more details? Thanks!” Cinnamon Toast Crunch The cereal brand responded, apologizing for the mishap and offering to replace the box. Tweeted, tagging Cinnamon Toast Crunch’s official Twitter account alongside a photo of what looks like sugar-coated shrimp tails. ![]() “Ummmm – why are there shrimp tails in my cereal? (This is not a bit),” It may already be too late for comedian and writer Jensen Karp, who says he found a slew of unappetizing surprises in his breakfast cereal Monday morning. ![]() Or, as some Twitter users contend, Karp is just lying - though the only upside there seems to be a week’s worth of internet attention and a lifetime dubbed “Shrimp tail guy.If you’re a devoted fan of Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal and don’t plan to stop any time soon, you should probably turn away now. A possibility: one day at the beach a shrimp snatched a beachgoer’s graham crackers, got a taste for cinnamon, spawned, and now there is a gang of cinnamon-hungry shrimp roving the country, wreaking havoc on innocent cereals. For now, we can only speculate as to how it got in there. And it’s inspiring people to intentionally mix shrimp and Cinnamon Toast Crunch in some new dishes. Of everything that could have gotten in there - nails, Chex, an actual mound of cinnamon sugar that just looks like a shrimp - shrimp really does have the element of surprise. “In 2011, the company sued a Michigan blueberry packer after a shipment - which was intended for future use in blueberry scones - was found to be contaminated with pieces of shrimp,” the paper reports. The New York Times also notes that this is not the first time General Mills has had to contend with shrimp where they don’t belong. Karp is apparently trying to get the cereal tested by a lab, and a researcher is going to “morphologically identify the shrimp using microscopy and he will work with a team of researchers to use DNA to try and identify the putative shrimp down to species.” fm7hUOP3yx- Cinnamon Toast Crunch March 23, 2021Ĭonsidering the number of Twitter hoaxes out there, it was reasonable of the New York Times to ask Karp if this is just a bad prank, but the comedian - who happens to be married to Danielle Fishel (a.k.a Topanga from Boy Meets World) and once performed under the rapper name “Hot Karl” - insists that it’s real, further revealing that within the cereal, he also found a string, something that looked like a pistachio, and what he fears could be rat feces. ![]()
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