Posted on 04/30/2005 5:26:07 AM PDT by KidGlock
Sisters Say They Found Maggots In Candy Bar
POSTED: 1:55 pm EDT April 29, 2005
BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Two Boca Raton sisters said they bit into some candy bars this week and surprisingly got a good dose of protein. They said they were trying out the new candy called M-azing, but ended up getting maggots.
Monica Castanheeira said she bought some M-azing chocolate bars Tuesday night to enjoy while watching videos with her sister, Renee, and her 4-year-old neice.
Castanheeira said she took a big bite and then felt something moving in her mouth.
"I look on the table and on the chocolate, and there's a maggot walking around," she said. "It's really disgusting."
The sisters said they found maggots in each of their chocolate bars. They said they found some that were very small and crawling and others had yet to hatch.
The sisters are so sickened, they went to the emergency room. They said the child is convinced there are bugs walking around in her stomach.
"We're investigating, obviously," said Master Foods USA, the producer of the chocolate. "And we're really sorry. Maggots are a result of fly larvae and could happen in a matter of days after our products have left our factories."
"When I think about it, I still feel it on my tongue," Castanheeira said. "I can't eat chocolate no more."
Castanheeira said she bought the candy at a Shell gas station. She said all the candy is off the shelves because she went back and bought it all to see if it was infested.
A state health investigator has been assigned to the case and will check out the candy bars as well.
Happend to me once with a baby ruth bar. It was covered with boll weavils. I can't eat them to this day, weavils that is. I do still like baby ruth bars.
the maggots can be DNA tested to see if they actually consumed/lived on the chocolate.
yes inch worms love broccoli and are the same color.
As you might expect, after overcoming my speechlessness, I politely cancelled my order.
Hard to walk into a Subway still.
That's not true. I remember when I was nine or so, visiting Jamaica, I bought a Cadbury chocolate bar and started to eat it. I noticed the husk of some worm-creature in the bar. I may have eaten more of them, I don't know. But I threw the rest of the bar away. No big deal, except I was denied my quota of chocolate for the day.
" I knew we were dealing with a rocket scientist here."
I didn't know that maggots would eat chocolate.
Can you blame her? Gag.
Of course that was years ago and who would think of contacting the media and suing.
The worst I ever did was write the Dove soap people and lied that I couldn't find it in my town and I loved their soap and they sent me a whole case.
I hope we do hear the truth too. I don't know if they were truly maggots, but I have seen WORMS in chocolate candy bars, and believe me, it isn't very appetizing to think you might have just eaten one!
I bought a jar of picante sauce a couple of years ago, and it had a metal spoon inside the sealed jar. Go figure that one out.
Let me assure you that it happens. It happened to me once with a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup.
This same thing happened to me with a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup that I had just purchased from the store.
It happened to me with a Reese's.
I believe this because it happened to me a few years ago.
Maggots from fly larvae do but larvae from grain beetles and other agricultural pests don't.
"Felt in her mouth, not in her hand."
Mo money, Mo money........
Mandatory MP ref.
I don't know why they're bitching: those candy bars came with extra protein supplement. They ought to be THANKING the store where they bought the stuff.
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