Never mind the shrimp...

Not sugar, but TSP    (Public Domain)

Comedian Jensen Karp found something fishy in his box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch, which he suspects is the tail end of shrimp.

Now some folks love shrimp, just not when it shows up in breakfast cereal.  So Karp was annoyed enough to air his displeasure.  Sure enough, the tweet then went viral.

Pretty soon, General Mills got in on the act.  The company claimed that shrimp couldn’t have possibly hightailed their way in.  Such “cross-contamination” simply did not exist.

Yet what does exist may be far more frightful.  The ingredient trisodium phosphate (TSP), standard in many a popular breakfast cereal, also shows up in paint thinner.  It’s been deemed “Hazardous” by the Environmental Protection Agency, and has been associated with “abdominal pain, burning sensation, shock, or collapse.”

Resources

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/cinnamon-toast-crunch-shrimp-comedian-believes-his-box-of-general-mills-cereal-contained-shrimp-tails/ar-BB1eT92S?ocid=uxbndlbing

https://wholenewmom.com/trisodium-phosphate-in-cereal/

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