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Last night on Twitter, two words started trending: “Pink Sauce.” Not like the creamy, tomato-based pasta sauce, but a mysterious, controversial condiment with an alarming neon color and upsetting, viscous consistency.
After an explainer from TikTok user and YouTuber Spill Sesh, who recaps internet celeb drama on their channels, made its way onto Twitter, the story of this disturbingly colored liquid became a full-blown spectacle. The Pink Sauce Story has all the makings of a successful scam-turned-media catnip: a uniquely unappealing food item, pedaled by a likely grifter with enough confidence for 100 people. This is the kind of internet weirdness the masses seize upon.
Pink Sauce is literally what it sounds like: a pink-colored sauce, to be used with anything from fried chicken to tacos to garden salad. Sounds versatile! Except that, in creator Chef Pii’s increasingly viral videos, Pink Sauce literally looks like Pepto Bismol, or liquid Amoxicillin, or slime. Looking at it makes me—and much of the internet—feel physically ill. Imagine putting that thing in your mouth!