FDA Reminds People That Cooking Chicken in NyQuil Is a Terrible Idea

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FDA Reminds People That Cooking Chicken in NyQuil Is a Terrible Idea

FDA Reminds People That Cooking Chicken in NyQuil Is a Terrible Idea

FDA Reminds People That Cooking Chicken in NyQuil Is a Terrible Idea

There are so many great recipes for chicken. You can fry it. Braise it. Pan-sear it. You should not, however, cook it in a mixture of acetaminophen, dextromethorphan, and doxylamine, as a now-deleted spree of TikTok NyQuil chicken videos suggests.

While the majority of the TikToks telling the best way to make “drowsy chicken” (named for the NyQuil it is apparently cooked in) have been brought down, the FDA ventured to give a refreshed admonition on 9/15: “Heating up a medicine can make it substantially more thought and change its properties in alternate ways. Regardless of whether you eat the chicken, inhaling the medication’s vapors while cooking could cause high levels of the drugs to enter your body. It could also hurt your lungs.”

According to the meme-tracking website Know Your Meme, the challenge is nothing new. The website states that the rank-looking chicken first showed up on the message board 4Chan in 2017. In 2020, the chicken, unfortunately, seemed to migrate to TikTok, where users cooked the syrup-drenched chicken in (mostly) comedic videos.

FDA Reminds People That Cooking Chicken in NyQuil Is a Terrible Idea | Culture

Aside from the really freezing shade of the chicken, it ought to be obvious that cooking anything in cold and influenza medication is an extremely unfortunate thought. It’s muddled whether anybody has really gone with the profoundly less than ideal decision to eat NyQuil-soaked chicken, however, as the FDA calls attention to, heating up the medication is perilous. The term “NyQuil chicken” has been blocked on TikTok and surfaces no videos, but a simple TikTok search for “NyQuil” unfortunately still has countless videos of the dangerous “recipe” taking shape.

It’s not the first time a social media challenge has gone off the rails. There was the Benadryl challenge. (The FDA said some people died from it.) The cinnamon challenge. The Tide Pod challenge. But if you’re going to partake in a chicken challenge anytime soon, how about learning to spatchcock?

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