The Company Behind that Crazy BBQ Chicken Pizzadilla Recipe Video Would Like a Word

Here’s how Jungle Creations, the company behind Twisted, works

Chris Stokel-Walker
FFWD

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Image: Twisted Food

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know by now about the Deep Fried BBQ Chicken Stuffed Pizzadilla. Over the weekend, the video, in which chicken is baked, pulled, combined with sauce, layered between tortillas, chilled, chopped, breaded, fried, topped with sauce, cheese and pepperoni, then grilled, went viral. Like, yanny/laurel viral.

Originally tweeted on the evening of August 22nd by Boston-based Twitter user @_kurlykay, in the days after the video has taken on a life of its own. It has sailed past 20 million views, with everyone passing comment on the video.

As many have accurately pointed out, the recipe is an abomination, a demonstration of culinary excess, a videotaped example of everything wrong with our society. It is the War and Peace of cooking videos.

The recipe requires 32 ingredients, not including the constitent parts of the half-cup of…

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Chris Stokel-Walker
FFWD
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