Kokonut Pundit: A Bug Inside a CareBears Lollipop

Saturday, February 10, 2007

A Bug Inside a CareBears Lollipop

Well, it began this way. I took my three girls and their friends to a Lowe's home improvement store where they had their "Kids Workshop" day. After they finished making their Valentine's mailboxes they were all given CareBears Valentine lollicards that came with a red, heart-shaped lollipop. One of my daughter's friend was licking his lollipop and to his horror discovered a bug, I think it looks like a fly, embedded inside the candy lollipop! Click here to see a super up close version.

Concerned, I went back to the Lowe's store in Alamogordo, NM and found the lady who helped run the "Kid's Workshop" and showed her the lollipop. Needless to say I think her face turned a bit shade lighter. I asked her where did the lollipop come from. She got the bag of lollipop candy from the nearby Walmart Store. She went to the trash can, ruffled around a little bit until she came across the empty CareBears LolliCards candy bag which I now have it in my possession (see photos below). I thanked her and proceeded to drive back to my house and took some pictures of the candy bag.

Prior to going to Lowe's I took numerous upclose camera shots of the bug-in-the-lollipop from different angles of the small black bug sitting in the trapped, sticky, red, translucent candy. Plus I have a movie shot of it, too! Looking at the pictures I took reminds me of bugs trapped in amber. Only this time, the kid was just shy of a few licks away from actually licking that bug into his mouth. Eeeewwww.

With the website address prominently printed on the back of the candy bag I visited the Frankford Candy and Chocolate Company's website to try and find an email address so I can email to whoever runs the place and let them know about the bug-in-the-lollipop incident. Even though the candy originated from Peru as seen on the candy bag. But after looking around on the Frankford Candy website I failed to find any email address. Now, I found it quite odd that a candy website doesn't have an email address anywhere but only the snail mail address. This is not good considering this day and age people use email to contact other people and even corporations when speed is the utmost of importance. So, here I am. Blogging about the errant bug that got caught in a sticky ollipop and maybe I'll get a response from the Frankford Candy company. Or the CareBears company. Or even maybe even from an unknown candy maker whose job is stir the sweet, sticky syrup into heart shaped molds somewhere in Peru. Who knows.

Although, be careful when you give out red lollipops to those you love on Valentine's Day!

A Bug Found Embedded In A Red, Heart-shaped Valentine Lollipop! - video powered by Metacafe