# If You Thought Fingers in Your Food Was Bad **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 4, 2005, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-fingers-in-your-food-was-bad/302406 "2005-05-04T17:47:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-fingers-in-your-food-was-bad/302406/1 "2005-05-04T17:47:19Z")
[How about a snake in your cereal?](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7734025/) > [@](#): > > A British boy tucking into his breakfast had a nasty surprise when he discovered a two-foot long snake inside his box of cereal. > > Jordan Willett, 5, thought he had found a toy when the serpent – a harmless corn snake – slithered out of the packet of “Golden Puffs” his parents had bought from discount store Netto in Telford, central England. > > “It was quite long and popped its head up. I’ve seen snakes on TV before but never in a box of cereal,” he told the Daily Mail newspaper. :eek: :eek: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-fingers-in-your-food-was-bad/302406/2 "2005-05-04T17:48:27Z")
Ssssnake, it’s a snake, ooo, it’s a snake!! ---
**Author:** ![MRirian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3be4f8/32.png) [@MRirian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MRirian)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-fingers-in-your-food-was-bad/302406/3 "2005-05-04T17:52:39Z")
Tucking into his breakfast? ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-fingers-in-your-food-was-bad/302406/4 "2005-05-04T18:52:30Z")
All I ever got in my cereal was a lousy decoder ring. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-fingers-in-your-food-was-bad/302406/5 "2005-05-04T18:53:43Z")
It was still alive? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-fingers-in-your-food-was-bad/302406/6 "2005-05-04T18:58:03Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > It was still alive? You’re obviously not a fan of Golden Puffs. ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-fingers-in-your-food-was-bad/302406/7 "2005-05-04T19:37:46Z")
Wonder if he got the matching Mongoose, too? ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-fingers-in-your-food-was-bad/302406/8 "2005-05-04T19:40:00Z")
Awww, man! I never got a free snake in any of _my_ cereal boxes! I gotta start buying Golden Puffs… :: jealous :: ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-thought-fingers-in-your-food-was-bad/302406/9 "2005-05-04T19:45:33Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > You’re obviously not a fan of Golden Puffs. Why, do they have some miraculous property? Other than being able to turn into a snake that is.