Unusual breakfast bite for BB pair (From Warrington Guardian)
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Unusual breakfast bite for BB pair
5:10pm Thursday 5th February 2009 in News
“I TURNED to Lisa and said people get paid for eating that on I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!”
Big Brother duo Mario Marconi and Lisa Appleton were shocked to discover a dead maggot inside their Kellogg’s Crunchy Nut cereal box.
The Latchford couple, who shot to fame on last summer’s series of the hit Channel 4 programme, say they were stunned – and certainly won’t be adding maggots to their new healthy eating range.
Mario, aged 43, said: “It must have been in the corn – luckily it was on Lisa’s spoon!
“We were all eating breakfast at the table and she saw it on her spoon. We looked closely and we could see it was a crunchy corn maggot. It’s enough to put you off food for life!”
Mario made a complaint to Kellogg’s following the find last Saturday morning.
Rachel Fellows, from Kellogg’s, said the maggot was in fact the larva of a small pecan weevil – a tree insect.
She said: “We’d like to thank Mr Marconi for getting in touch with us after finding something unexpected in his cereal.
“An entomologist has confirmed that what he found was a small pecan weevil. They can grow, quite naturally, inside the shells of pecans where they eat the nuts.
“Very occasionally, people find them in whole pecans they buy for eating at home or in packs of pre-shelled nuts they might use for baking.
“We use pecan nuts in Crunchy Nut Nutty and every batch is shelled and checked before being chopped and put into our cereal. It seems this small bug slipped through these rigorous checks and made it into the finished product.
“We would like to apologise to Mr Marconi and reassure him that we only very rarely get complaints like this and the weevils are completely harmless, even if eaten.
“We’d also like to send him a case of Crunchy Nut Clusters to make up for what must have been a very disappointing breakfast.”
Comments(18)
mac
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4:27pm Thu 5 Feb 09
davehedgehog
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4:51pm Thu 5 Feb 09
keith1
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5:19pm Thu 5 Feb 09
mac wrote:I love it when people say stuff like this.
You are assuming we care about these non entities.
You cared enough to:
1) Click on the story
2) Read it
3) Leave a comment
Hypocrite
mattipler
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5:26pm Thu 5 Feb 09
Maybe next week they’ll find a fly in their pea and ham soup... so long as it keeps their faces in the paper...
Repairman Jack
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5:31pm Thu 5 Feb 09
Repairman Jack
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5:40pm Thu 5 Feb 09
"Woman Who Was Once In The Audience At A Radio One Roadshow boils an egg"
JONNIO
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11:49am Fri 6 Feb 09
And it certainly makes me think twice about eating Kellogs.
Maybe next week Repairman Jack will say something optimistic...or find a personality.
Repairman Jack
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11:59am Fri 6 Feb 09
gdunning
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12:01pm Fri 6 Feb 09
It often amuses me how on this site, we get criticized for being too negative. Yet when we run a quirky story, we shouldn't run that either.
I also find it interesting to note that this remains one of the top stories on this site for the last few days. I think that proves people are interested, no matter which side of the debate they sit on.
I think when we are being criticized for being too negative and also too positive, we probably have the balance about right.
Hope this helps
Gareth
Gareth Dunning
News Editor
Repairman Jack
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12:04pm Fri 6 Feb 09
roadrunner
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12:13pm Fri 6 Feb 09
These two are desperate to stay in the press.
Nobody is interested in you!!!
gdunning
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12:53pm Fri 6 Feb 09
But I would suggest that the popularity of the story would indicate you are perhaps in the minority.
Also if anybody had found something like this in their story, be at my nan or the Queen, then we would have covered it.
Gareth
KenS
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2:54pm Fri 6 Feb 09
mac
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6:14pm Fri 6 Feb 09
keith1 wrote:What can I say, I had been drinking, it was a one off, it meant nothing to me, I was weak!
mac wrote: You are assuming we care about these non entities.I love it when people say stuff like this. You cared enough to: 1) Click on the story 2) Read it 3) Leave a comment Hypocrite
There probably is an element of hypocrisy, like the sarcasm and cynicism, I think it adds texture to my character.
Repairman Jack
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11:46am Sat 7 Feb 09
I suppose local pride makes you fussy about those who represent your town.
elzh
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4:53pm Sun 8 Feb 09
keith1
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10:20am Wed 11 Feb 09
You say you're not interested in this but you read it and joined the debate and the story has proved very popular. I thought Kellogg's reply was interesting, I certainly didn't know much about pecan weevils!
From what I've seen on here the Guardian covers all types of stories - some I would imagine more extensively researched than others - but for me variety is the spice of life!
Humac
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2:52am Fri 13 Feb 09
gdunning wrote:Gareth, you might consider having one of your sub-editors look at your stuff before you commit it to the web. Just a thought.
I take your point that you aren't interested Jack.
But I would suggest that the popularity of the story would indicate you are perhaps in the minority.
Also if anybody had found something like this in their story, be at my nan or the Queen, then we would have covered it.
Gareth
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