

We promise you that our team will look into this and get to the bottom of it - but in the meantime, we want to do everything we can to make this right. In response to manufacturer General Mills' offer to replace the cereal in question, he tweeted Monday, "GUYS - I am not sure I'm ready for another box!!!" The company replied, "We understand your concern. Also, it's only 'viral' because of their insane response. For real.Īnd he had a word for skeptics who think he's faking the whole situation to become a viral sensation: "there are black items COOKED ONTO the squares and tons of it at the bottom of the bag," he tweeted Tuesday, "in addition to shrimp tails and other SUGAR COATED junk. Karp is credited as a producer or executive producer on shows including Nickelodeon's "Unleashed" and TBS/TNT's "Drop the Mic." He's worked with "Schitt's Creek" star Dan Levy, and in his tween years he was a battle rapper. 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.
