![]() ![]() “From Karp’s photos it is very hard to tell, so I need to see them in person and get them under a microscope.” “I can say nothing about packaging how the specimens did or didn’t make it into the bags,” he told Snopes. He told Snopes that he can only determine whether the specimens in question are “shrimp” or “accumulations of cinnamon and sugar.” Wall is doing this work in his own time and not in an official capacity as an NHMLA employee. The shrimp saga racked up quite the following on Twitter as Karp live-tweeted the events as they unfolded.Īdam Wall, a crustacean researcher at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles (NHMLA), wrote in a Tweet that the pieces in question did “look a bit like a shrimp’s telson and uropods” and that he planned to analyze the specimen under a microscope to confirm if it was, indeed, a shrimp tail. This is the first I’ve heard from them since yesterday (when they said they were sending an envelope) and my new response. I plan on continuing full transparency for those concerned about their products. In screenshots of a conversation between himself and CTC that were shared on Twitter, Karp pointed out that the cereal company asked him to send the boxes so that they could test the product but he refused to do so. Also, it’s only “viral” because of their insane response. ![]() Something regarding the stupid “Did he fake this?” take: there are black items COOKED ONTO the squares and tons of it at the bottom of the bag, in addition to shrimp tails and other SUGAR COATED junk. In the other bag, it appears taped up? And that has a used piece of dental floss.” Some of the squares also have small red dye on them. “The black items are also at the bottom of the bag. ![]() “In the shrimp tails (which by the way, they are sugar-coated like the cereal) box, there was a small piece of string, a sugar-coated pea type of thing, and a lot of the squares have a black item cooked onto them,” Karp told Snopes. “It’s the least plausible thing in the world,” Karp told Snopes in an email. We assure you that there's no possibility of cross contamination with shrimp. However, the cereal company posted the below statement to their Twitter on March 22, 2021: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. Snopes contacted General Mills, who produces Cinnamon Toast Crunch, but did not receive a response at the time of publication. (For reference, the bar code was 1600 43632 and the expiration date listed was for Jan. It was only after he dumped the cereal in the bowl that he noticed what looked to be “shrimp tails” both in the bowl and a second that was in the box. In an email to Snopes, Karp confirmed that he had purchased the box of cereal the morning of March 20, 2021, at a Costco in Woodland Hills, California. I wasn’t all that mad until you now tried to gaslight me? /rSLE60pvoy Ok, we’ll after further investigation with my eyes, these are cinnamon coated SHRIMP TAILS, you weirdos. ![]() A Los Angeles-based comedian named Jensen Karp went viral on Twitter in late-March 2021 when he shared pictures that appeared to show shrimp tails in his Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cereal. ![]()
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