Man claims to find sugar-coated shrimp tails in his box of cereal

A tragic tail: Jensen Karp says he adored Cinnamon Toast Crunch, until he found what appeared to be dried seafood in his breakfast

Kids' cereals have a long history of coming with prizes in the box - perhaps a SpongeBob Squarepants figurine or a cardboard cutout of Spider-Man. It is less appealing when the surprise inside appears to be multiple dried shrimp tails.

That is what allegedly happened on Monday morning to Jensen Karp, a Los Angeles comedian, who reported his findings on Twitter with some truly alarming photographs and the words this is not a bit".