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CYBER

Why TikTok Is Obsessed With Pink Sauce

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

If you haven’t heard, there’s a hot new condiment on the market that’s gone viral on TikTok. It’s called Pink Sauce and it’s been at the center of several controversies over the past few weeks.


The sauce has been accused of making people sick, being a rip off of other condiments, and lying about its nutritional information. On this episode of Cyber we’re going to try to answer the question: why does everyone ok TikTok seem to care about this pepto-bismol colored goop?


With us today to talk all things Pink Sauce is Motherboard Intern and TikTok master Jules Roscoe.


Stories discussed in this episode:


‘They Accused Me of Poisoning the Nation:’ Chef Pii's Viral Pink Sauce Has Turned Into a TikTok Nightmare


Viral Pink Sauce Comes With Lengthy Terms and Conditions


Let Me Eat the TikTok 'Pink Sauce'


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0:00.0

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0:22.2

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0:23.5

The package is being delivered.

0:27.4

Hello out there on the internet.

0:30.3

I'm Matthew Galt, and this is cyber.

0:34.5

If you haven't heard, there's a hot new condiment on the market going viral on TikTok.

0:36.5

It's called Pink Sauce.

0:39.2

And it's been at the center of several controversies over the past few weeks. The sauce has been accused of making people sick, posting the wrong

0:44.4

nutritional information, being a rip-off of other condiments, and is generally at the center

0:49.0

of a vast number of internet conspiracies. Well, today on Cyber, we're going to get the answers to all your

0:55.1

burning questions about the pink sauce, and we're going to find out why everyone on TikTok seems

1:00.7

to care so much about this peptobismol-colored goop. With us today to talk about all

1:06.4

things pink sauce is motherboard intern and TikTok master Jules Roscoe. Jules, thank you so much for making

1:14.0

your debut on cyber to talk about a really bizarre TikTok phenomenon. Yes, this is my new area

1:21.1

of expertise, so thank you for having me. Yeah, you've really been all over this since it kind

1:25.4

of exploded a few weeks ago, But take us back to the beginning.

1:29.2

For people that don't know for the blessedly ignorant, what is pink sauce?

1:35.1

Pink sauce is a condiment sold by a woman named Chef P on TikTok.

1:41.7

She's a private chef based in Miami.

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