With Halloween coming up I bought a pack of bite-sized Crunchies to hand out to kiddies, and decided to eat one myself last night. When I opened it, it was a mutant… Looking something like the letter ‘h’ with the bottom bit filled in.

Initially I just dismissed it as one of those things that happens in the manufacturing process occasionally; perhaps a bubble of air was trapped in the honeycomb block before it hardened and was cut in to bite-size pieces

But there was something strangely familiar and curious about the shape of the missing piece. Enough so that I set the bar aside to further ponder rather than eating it. And later that night I figured it out. The missing piece was shaped and sized exactly as if someone had taken a bite out of it. But the whole thing was covered in chocolate, so the bite was taken somewhere on the factory line between the honeycomb being cut into small pieces and the honeycomb being covered in chocolate.

Some oompa-loompa on the factory floor has gotten a bit peckish and taken a bite out of my Crunchie.

What, if any, germs and diseases and other horrible things would we likely find under the shiny chocolate coating? I assume there will be at least some saliva, probably soaked through the honeycomb. Worst case scenario, how sick could it make me if I ate the thing?

Also, is there any way I can sue Cadbury for this, like based on mental suffering or something?<tic>

esselte said:

With Halloween coming up I bought a pack of bite-sized Crunchies to hand out to kiddies, and decided to eat one myself last night. When I opened it, it was a mutant… Looking something like the letter ‘h’ with the bottom bit filled in.

Initially I just dismissed it as one of those things that happens in the manufacturing process occasionally; perhaps a bubble of air was trapped in the honeycomb block before it hardened and was cut in to bite-size pieces

But there was something strangely familiar and curious about the shape of the missing piece. Enough so that I set the bar aside to further ponder rather than eating it. And later that night I figured it out. The missing piece was shaped and sized exactly as if someone had taken a bite out of it. But the whole thing was covered in chocolate, so the bite was taken somewhere on the factory line between the honeycomb being cut into small pieces and the honeycomb being covered in chocolate.

Some oompa-loompa on the factory floor has gotten a bit peckish and taken a bite out of my Crunchie.

What, if any, germs and diseases and other horrible things would we likely find under the shiny chocolate coating? I assume there will be at least some saliva, probably soaked through the honeycomb. Worst case scenario, how sick could it make me if I ate the thing?

Also, is there any way I can sue Cadbury for this, like based on mental suffering or something?<tic>

It would be highly unlikely anyone took a bite of anything on the factory floor, normally staff have ample access to whatever they want without resorting to such unacceptable practices.

You wouldn’t get sick eating it regardless, people have been eating shared food from each others mouths forever, my sister used to pick old chewing gum off of the footpath and eat it.

you’ve discovered the fabled lost world of crunchies

Also, is there any way I can sue Cadbury for this, like based on mental suffering or something?
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Yes. You are well on your way to winning a dollar.

Finding a solicitor who will work for 50 cent…

That would be Scott Leemon.

Hope that helps.

Take it to a forensic specialist. They would be able to measure striations left in the honeycomb and match it to an individual’s teeth. You should be able to track them down by taking casts of every employee past and present’s teeth.

After that, revenge, sweet revenge as you spit in their coffee.

Just be prepared for science to say it’s a random shape due to a manufacturing quirk.