
Deep Fried BBQ Chicken Stuffed Pizzadilla
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About
Deep Fried BBQ Chicken Stuffed Pizzadilla is a viral food recipe that combines pizza, barbecue chicken and quesadillas. A video of the dish being prepared went viral due to the reaction to the number of steps in the recipe as well as the finished product.
Origin
On August 1st, 2019, the website Twisted[1] published a recipe for the "Deep Fried BBQ Chicken Stuffed Pizzadilla." The following week, the site posted a video of the recipe being made on YouTube. Within one month, the video received more than 100,000 views (shown below).
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On August 22nd, 2019, Twitter user @_kurlykay published a clip of the video. They captioned the post, "okay but I just wanna know WHY?" Within one week, the tweet received more than 19 million views, 19,000 likes and 4,400 retweets (shown below).
okay but I just wanna know WHY? pic.twitter.com/BF49YX2jyc
— khaltkom (@_kurlykay) August 23, 2019
Two days later, journalist Yashar Ali tweeted the video with the caption, "I’m calling the FBI." Within two days, the tweet received more than 176,000 likes and 36,000 retweets (shown below).
I’m calling the FBI pic.twitter.com/X2jIlJmfEt
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) August 24, 2019
On August 25th, Twitter[2] user @chezspence tweeted, "kind of tempted to make that deep fried bbq chicken deep dish quesadilla pepperoni pizza tonight." Over the course of several hours, @chezspence live-tweeted the cooking of the dish. the inital tweet, received more than 39,000 likes and 5,000 retweets in 24 hours (excerpts below).



Additionally, @chezspence published a video of himself taking a bite of the dish and wretching into a sink due to the taste (shown below).
Several media outlets covered the viral response to the dish, including The Guardian,[2] TIME,[3] The Cut[4] and more.
This is it. The moment you’ve been waiting for all night. pic.twitter.com/Lo8Lc89zYz
— Shay Spence (@chezspence) August 26, 2019
Search Interest
External References
[1] Twisted – Deep Fried BBQ Chicken Stuffed Pizzadilla
[2] The Guardian – What is this chicken-stuffed deep-fried pizzadilla and why is it all over the internet?
[3] TIME – A Controversial Quesadilla-Pizza Recipe Video Is Giving the Internet Indigestion
[4] The Cut – This ‘Pizzadilla’ Is the Breakout Horror Film of the Season
Top Comments
RemChi
Aug 27, 2019 at 12:11PM EDT
Ganondward
Aug 26, 2019 at 08:17PM EDT