Articles labeled: food tampering

There’s a little candy store near Minor Topics HQ, and they have these suckers with bugs, worms, and we swear to god, scorpions. But at least those things are (technically) edible. One mom in Mulberry, Florida found a piece of metal embedded in a lollipop — it was amongst a bag of them she had bought for her son’s Valentine’s Day party.

The candy was X-rayed because a Mulberry woman found metal embedded in a lollipop purchased at a Dollar General Store at 6735 S. Florida Ave., according to the sheriff’s office

Despite the reassuring X-rays, Sheriff Grady Judd says parents who have purchased the Pokemon lollipops should not allow their children to eat them. He also says parents should scrutinize all candy purchased for Valentine’s Day.

Lisa Potter bought a bag of 10 Pokemon Valentine Cards and Pops on Feb. 7. While her son was sorting through them Wednesday night in preparation for taking them to school, he noticed a piece of metal resembling a blade protruding from the corner of the pop. Potter took the candy to the Mulberry Police Department, which called the sheriff’s office.

We personally have a thing against purchasing anything at the Dollar Store that you would put in your mouth, perhaps that wasn’t such a crazy rule after all.