A two-foot snake found its way into a packet of breakfast cereal, it emerged today.
Five-year-old Jordan Willett, from Dawley, Shropshire, discovered the live reptile inside his box of Golden Puffs on Bank Holiday Monday.
His mother Theresa, who was having breakfast with her son at the time, said she initially thought it was a free gift for children.
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http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/18354904?source=PA
It’s that lady from Vegas. Arrest her!
All snakes being predators, what you have there is a cereal killer.
[rimshot]
WOW - my kids would have LOVED a prize like that instead of some crappy plastic thing!! 
(what are “Golden Puffs”?)
Missy
“If the phone doesn’t ring, it’s ME!”
I’m starting to wonder about this… a 2-foot snake in a packet of cereal that cost 89p ? How small is that box of cereal?
Hm, I read that in today’s newspaper. I thought it said it was 6 inches, but I’m rubbish with numbers, a good trait in any engineer. (I must have been tripped up by the centimetre notation.) It was a corn snake, which is non-venomous.
Interestingly, the article in the paper did not mention the particular brand of cereal. I’ve never bought Golden Puffs, all I know is they’ve got a weird mutant Fry Kid ™ on the front. And free snakes.
Edit… Nope, it was 2 feet. Here’s an article, with a “sample picture” of an anonymous corn snake.
Some sort of food analog. The very name bespeaks of the hand of heavy industry.
Golden Puffs:
Appearance: a close resemblance to styrofoam pellets.
Taste: a close resemblance to styrofoam pellets.
(They’re actually like “Puffed Wheat” or “Puffed Rice” cereals in the USA).
Golden Puffs is a puffed-wheat cereal from the Malt-O-Meal folks.
http://www.malt-o-meal.com/pages/cc_GoldenPuffs.html
So, what was a _corn_snake doing in a wheat cereal?
I think it’s a different cereal in the UK. I’ll take a look at the food shop tomorrow.
A Snake might be a welcom change… we keep finding bits of human fingers in our food over here…
yech.
Oh, so THAT’S what finger food is.
Look, but don’t buy.
A_maize_ing, isn’t it?
Nano wrote:
“Some sort of food analog. The very name bespeaks of the hand of heavy industry.”
HEY - watch it bud - remember, I make Pringles!!!
Missy
I want one!
(A two foot long snake will be pretty slender. Not a large animal, really. They can coil up and fit into surprisingly small spaces.)
It reminds me of when Ralph the First accidentally caught himself in an empty Cheerios box. When I pulled the wax paper inside bag out of the box, there was Ralph, standing on his hind paws with his front paws against the side of the bag, calmly gazing out at me.
Best wishes,
Jerry
My wife has one. Very low maintenance. She’s a sneaky girl, the snake, when you are not paying attention she’ll stick her tail into a coat pocket or a belt loop and it seems like you need three hands to untangle yourself.
The two footer must be a young one.
The snake we have looks like this
We called that a “red rat snake”. Much prettier than the yellow rat snake, which seems more common in south Texas. (Walking up on a 6-foot yellow rat snake in rattlesnake country can be kinda startling, but no one would mistake a 6-foot cornsnake for a copperhead.)
These jokes are getting a little corny.