FDA Statement Caused NyQuil Chicken To Trend On TikTok

NyQuil chicken may have been a shitpost that never died, occasionally popping up online, but it didn’t become a recent social media trend until the FDA posted about it, TikTok has confirmed. What was once just a revolting 4chan in-joke about cooking raw meat in cold medicine became a Twitter trend after the federal agency …

NyQuil Chicken Wasn’t Trending Until The FDA Posted About It

A spokesperson for TikTok told BuzzFeed News that they haven’t noticed this trend on the platform. Searches for “NyQuil chicken” on TikTok have been redirected to a warning about viral challenges since January 2022. Because posts about NyQuil chicken are removed from TikTok for violating community guidelines, it’s hard to pinpoint what might have triggered …

TikTok Users Are Cooking Chicken In NyQuil Which… Isn’t The Best Idea Ever, According To The FDA

Uproxx Last week, The Food and Drug Administration issued a warning that cooking chicken in NyQuil is dangerous, and if you’re scratching your head over why anyone would try cooking chicken in NyQuil in the first place, well… because of TikTok, why else? Sometime last year a TikTok showing a user cooking a piece of …