Goobers candy taken off Dollar General shelves

Spring Hill, Florida - You won't find Goobers candy anywhere on Dollar General store shelves.

As a result of a special 10 Connects investigation, the popular chocolate-covered peanuts candy snack was pulled from store shelves after an incident involving worms was reported to the corporation.

They are images Keith Pensyl can't get out of his head.

Tiny, white worms crawling and squirming all over his Goobers candy was more than Keith could handle. He threw up immediately after eating a handful of the popular chocolate-covered candy that he had purchased from Spring Hill Dollar General.

Keith says, "I had actually put a handful in my mouth and had some more in my hand, and I felt something in my hand, and I looked down and saw, there's worms crawling out of them, crawling over them."

Keith says he was watching 10 Connects News at 11:00 p.m. when he bit into the candy. He sent 10 Connects reporter Melanie Brooks an instant message right away.

We contacted both Dollar General and the Nestle Corporation to ask how this could happen, especially since this type of Nestle candy is packaged in plastic.

We got results in 24 hours.

Dollar General not only pulled the candy from the shelves but began a point-of-sale investigation to pinpoint where the Goobers came from and ceased any transactions of Goobers candy.

This statement was released to us, "The health and safety of our customers is a top priority for Dollar General. We are working with Nestle, maker of Goobers candy, to investigate the allegation of contamination. The product was purchased from a store in Spring Hill, Fla. No illnesses have been reported as a result of this incident, and no additional incidents have been reported."

The statement continued, "Out of an abundance of caution, Dollar General has ordered its stores to remove Goobers candy from its shelves and is programming its point-of-sale systems to block transactions of this product pending further investigation."

Keith and his partner, Tim Roach, say they are not after money. They simply want to do what's right and warn more people about the candy.

Tim told us, "They're expecting that their product is going to come safe from the factory, that it's not going to be old or full of bugs or worms. So you kind of have to look at it from the perspective that I have to let them know what's going on."

We took a hidden camera inside a Dollar General in St. Petersburg to double check and made sure that the candy was, in fact, removed from the shelves. The video shows that the space where Goobers would normally be sold for one dollar, was empty.

The Nestle Corporation contacted Keith and Tim to offer them free coupons for more Nestle products. They say they will continue shopping at Dollar General, but as for Nestle candy, they'll never eat it again.