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"Lucky Charms, They're Magically . . . .”

Gord_in_Toronto

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. . . making people sick.

FDA investigating Lucky Charms after customers complained of illness after eating it

https://abc7.com/lucky-charms-illness-fda-cereal/11757256/

Several hundred people have also posted on a food safety website, iwaspoisoned.com, complaining of nausea, diarrhea and vomiting after eating Lucky Charms.

General Mills Inc., the Minneapolis-based company that makes Lucky Charms, Cheerios and other cereals, said it's aware of those reports and takes them seriously. But the company said its own investigation has not found any evidence of consumer illness linked to Lucky Charms.
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I'm posting this in this sub-forum because there appears to be no independent confirmation and it's taking place on social media.

More details here: https://www.fatherly.com/news/lucky-charms-fda-investigation/
 
The people reporting illness might be wrong about Lucky Charms specifically being the culprit, but that's not the same as being a "conspiracy theory". Foodborne illness, contamination, and safety recalls are an everyday fact of life.
 
Checkmite said:
The people reporting illness might be wrong about Lucky Charms specifically being the culprit, but that's not the same as being a "conspiracy theory". Foodborne illness, contamination, and safety recalls are an everyday fact of life.
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Oh. I agree with that but there is possibly a hysterical feedback loop that enhances the reporting. See the Havana Syndrome thread for a long discussion of such.
 
I've never had Lucky Charms. When I was a child my mother wouldn't buy breakfast cereal that had marshmallows or other candy (I was allowed chocolate-flavored cereal though), and I had no desire to eat it when I got older. It's good to hear that it tastes bad and I didn't miss anything.
 
Axxman300 said:
Whelp...not dead...:thumbsup:
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Perhaps the OP got it wrong. The way it works is you eat your Lucky Charms, then the phone rings. Did you answer the phone or are you letting voice mail catch it because it's probably some schmuck telemarketer?

Anywho, after you answer the damn phone, a leprechaun crawls out from your laptop. None of that TV stuff because it's 2022 and unholy spectres from the bowels of Hell like to stay current and relatable.
 
Thermal said:
Perhaps the OP got it wrong. The way it works is you eat your Lucky Charms, then the phone rings. Did you answer the phone or are you letting voice mail catch it because it's probably some schmuck telemarketer?

Anywho, after you answer the damn phone, a leprechaun crawls out from your laptop. None of that TV stuff because it's 2022 and unholy spectres from the bowels of Hell like to stay current and relatable.
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I'm playing the lottery tomorrow to see if they improve luck. If they won't kill me, I need to expand this experiment.
 
Gord_in_Toronto said:
Oh. I agree with that but there is possibly a hysterical feedback loop that enhances the reporting. See the Havana Syndrome thread for a long discussion of such.
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Is there any particular reason to think that has happened in this case, or is the theoretical possibility enough to categorize the reports of sickness as a de facto conspiracy theory?
 
Checkmite said:
Is there any particular reason to think that has happened in this case, or is the theoretical possibility enough to categorize the reports of sickness as a de facto conspiracy theory?
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As I said in the OP, "I'm posting this in this sub-forum because there appears to be no independent confirmation and it's taking place on social media".

If you want to think that it is I who is the conspiracy theorist by thinking this is fabulated then sobeit.

The FDA is now investigating. See: https://www.fda.gov/food/outbreaks-foodborne-illness/investigations-foodborne-illness-outbreaks

Time, as they say, will tell.
 
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