![]() ![]() 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. ![]() 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. This week’s villain reveal went to Jensen Karp, a Los Angeles comedian who went viral on Tuesday for a nightmare-fuel tweet revealing what appeared to be shrimp tails in a box of Cinnamon. 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. Writer/Producer Jensen Karp documented what he claims was a gross morning breakfast session Monday, posting pics of various artifacts he says he found inside his new box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. “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. QD 2.3K Tl 3.5K Jensen Karp Ok, well after further investigation with my eyes. 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.” We assure you that theres no possibility of cross contamination with shrimp. 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. On the second episode of icymi, slates new podcast about internet culture, hosts madison malone kircher and rachelle hampton take. ![]()
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