The Commonwealth Council for Arts and Culture has declined to comment on a social media post claiming that a customer found two glass pieces on an apigigi sold by one of the vendors at the 38th Annual Flame Tree Arts Festival last weekend.<\/p>\n
Apigigi is a Chamorro dessert made from grated coconut and tapioca or cassava.<\/p>\n
The poster on Facebook claims that she found the glass pieces in an apigigi that was bought from Fong\u2019s Bakery at the festival.<\/p>\n
CCAC executive director Parker Yobei declined to comment on the post but did speak in an interview, saying he had already reached out to Fong\u2019s Bakery, who disputed the claim, saying all the apigigi they sell are hand-made.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am not going to comment\u2026because the [Bureau of Environmental Health] took over as well as the Attorney General\u2019s Office\u2026just to get to the bottom of this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Fong\u2019s Bakery general manager Maggie Mendoza told Saipan Tribune that she believes the post is an attack on the bakery \u201cto destroy the company\u2019s reputation.\u201d<\/p>\n
If there really was a piece of glass in the apigigi mix, Mendoza said would have known at once since the products are all hand-made and she is the only one who makes them.<\/p>\n
According to Mendoza, people from BEH reportedly showed up at her bakery last Saturday, April 13, to investigate the bakery. She demonstrated how she makes the apigigi the bakery sells.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnly I make the apigigi since I use a secret recipe for it,\u201d she said, adding that she does not let her employees make the apigigi. \u201cIf they found something suspicious they should\u2019ve shut us down right there and then,\u201d she said, yet the bakery was not shut down.<\/p>\n
Mendoza further noted that she was told that the bakery could sue the Facebook poster, a certain Richiko Langu, who posted in a buy-and-sell group on Facebook that she \u201cfound two small pieces of glass\u201d in the apigigi she bought at the Flame Tree Arts Festival last weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cI only felt it once I took a bite. Right after I broke it in half, there was a bigger piece sticking to it. This is so not right!\u201d she posted after naming both the bakery and the festival. \u201cJust a warning, please be careful out there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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