


Adam Wall, who is the Collections Manager of Crustacea at The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County according to its website, wrote that "those do look a bit like a shrimp's telson & uropods-tail. It was time for a crustaceans expert to weigh in. The This is the End actor also joked, "Yo that's shrimp CT CRUNCH!" and "CALL A F-KING EXORCIST."

"Is it shrimp adjacent?"įans eventually speculated the black bits looked like potential rat droppings, prompting Jensen to say, "It makes me want wash my mouth out with acid." Seth gave his take, noting, "I'd cut my mouth off if I were you." "I ate a bowl before noticing all this," he noted. Jensen responded, "GUYS - I am not sure I'm ready for another box!!!" The Cinnamon Toast Crunch account responded to say, "We're sorry to see what you found! We would like to report this to our quality team," and also offered to replace his box with a new one. Jensen tagged the brand and wrote, "Ummmm - why are there shrimp tails in my cereal?" To prove he was serious, he added, "This is not a bit." Jensen wrote, "I'm looping in because I'm genuinely nervous I will never eat (or sleep) again without answers." On Monday, March 22, Jensen posted a pic of what he alleges are pieces of shrimp that he found inside the Cinnamon Toast Crunch he bought at the Woodland Hills Costco in California. The Los Angeles-based podcaster, whose wife is Boy Meets World actress Danielle Fishel, claimed he found two sugar-coated shrimp tails in his bag of cereal and has been sharing his disturbing experience with fans on Twitter.
#WAS THERE REALLY SHRIMP IN CINNAMON TOAST CRUNCH FULL#
We invite the company to join and provide the full disclosures we require for membership so their consumers with food allergies can rest assured.Twitter users are eating up the story of how Jensen Karp unexpectedly found something fishy inside his bag of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. I’m literally just saying, ‘Go investigate it.’”Īs General Mills is not a member of the Manufacturer Partnership, we have no insight into whether specific allergens including shrimp are processed at the facilities where Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cereal is manufactured. “I’m not even like trying to say like, ‘Be better,’ or whatever. “I just want you to fix it, you know, for other people,” he said, citing the possibility that shrimp could contaminate the cereal of people with shellfish allergies, or who keep kosher.

Mr Karp says his primary concern is public safety. “The tainted blueberries were unsuitable for use in any GMI product, much less the intended product.” “Upon further inspection of the remaining cases of Lot #210082 Adkin blueberries, GMI discovered one shrimp and a shrimp tail on the outside of the cases,” the suit read. He also noticed a “small black piece” on a number of squares and at the bottom of the box. I wasn’t all that mad until you now tried to gaslight me? /rSLE60pvoy- Jensen Karp March 22, 2021Īfter a complete check of the box, Mr Karp found a few other foreign objects which he described as “shrimp skins-looking things,” “a small string” and something that looked like a pistachio, all encrusted in sugar. Ok, we’ll after further investigation with my eyes, these are cinnamon coated SHRIMP TAILS, you weirdos. Mr Karp, frustrated with the public tweet, responded with another tweet of his own: We assure you that there’s no possibility of cross contamination with shrimp. Then the brand tweeted a public statement:Īfter 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. “Privately, they were still being very nice,” he said, after they offered to send him a replacement box which he declined.
