当前，社交媒体目前都对瓶装酱汁充满信心 - 众所周知，这并不多。简单地称为“Pink Sauce，”这是Tiktok用户的创建@chef.pii(59.9K followers). True to its name, the sauce is a radiant, Pepto-Bismol pink, and it’s been the source of nonstop controversy. We love culinary chaos on our social media feeds, but this sauce is rife with curiosities beyond the典型的推特fights, so I’ve spent some time examining its existence. I’ve emerged from the rabbit hole with more questions than answers.
What exactly is Pink Sauce, anyway?
The driving force behind my curiosity is that very few people seem to understand what Pink Sauce actually is. All we have to go on are several videos from @chef.pii spotlighting the stuff, absolutely dousing it over stuff like chicken wings and cheeseburgers and taking big, sloppy bites. (I love my food videos, but when I see people justpouring sauce all over their foodlike there’s no tomorrow, I immediately suspect it’s for attention.)
The sauce,首次发布于6月11日, appears creamy, not particularly thick, but also not runny. Okay, so it’s a sauce. But there’s one big question on everyone’s mind.
粉红色酱汁的味道如何？
多人指出，任何地方几乎没有提及粉红色酱汁的味道。值得注意的是， @Chef.pii在各种视频中都不会描述它，这很好奇，这不会增加销售的信息？我在 @Chef.pii的供稿上观看了至少10个有关酱汁的视频，没有一个提及风味的视频。
One TikTok user,@jade.amberrrrr, does go in depth as to what it tastes like.
In the video above, the user shows off a homemade “power bowl,” which I’m assuming is a knockoff Power Bowl from Taco Bell, and absolutely drenches it in Pink Sauce.
“The sauce is not bad,” says @jade.amberrrrr. “It’s not nasty. That’s the thing, it’s not nasty.” That’s certainly a ringing endorsement if I’ve ever heard one. After a few more bites, a more detailed description is provided:
“It kind of reminds me of the blackened ranch from Popeyes, but, like, sweet.” The sauce is also compared to all the sauces mixed together at a seafood boil. Fascinating.
粉红色酱汁中的成分是什么？
Pink Sauce does in fact have a website,thepinksauce.com, where the ingredients in this mysterious condiment are listed:
成分：水，葵花籽油，生蜂蜜，蒸馏葡萄酒（sic), GARLIC, PITAYA, PINK HIMALAYAN SALT LESS THAN 2% OF: DRIED SPICES, LEMON JUICE, MILK, CITRIC ACID
CONTAINS: SUNFLOWER SEED OIL, MILK
MAY CONTAIN SOY AND EGGS
The sweetness, I’m assuming, can be attributed to theraw honey，这是此列表中的第三个成分。好奇的颜色来自pitaya，也称为龙果。龙果的一些品种含有红色粉红色的肉，这将解释酱汁中的粉红色。
One thing that doesn’tquiteseem to add up, to me at least, is the creamy appearance of the sauce. While it’s described in the video above as a sweet ranch-like dressing, the fact that there’s no mayonnaise, egg yolk, or mustard listed in the ingredients means it’s farther away from ranch than the flavor might suggest. These things are all natural emulsifiers that would give the Pink Sauce the body and creaminess it appears to have, as emulsifiers function as a way to bind oil and water together into a stable mixture. Of all the listed ingredients, garlicmightserve the function of an emulsifier, but it’s not likely.
Garlic can function as an emulsifier, but usually only when there’s a large quantity present, such as intoum, a Middle Eastern condiment made of garlic, lemon juice, and olive oil. (Toum, by the way, is absolutely delicious.) Considering garlic is toward the bottom of the Pink Sauce ingredients list, I’m assuming there’s not a ton of it by volume. If I were to mix all those ingredients together at home, I’d end up with something like a pink, very sweet vinaigrette, which I’m sure would be perfectly good to eat—but I don’t think it’d look like Pink Sauce.
I hate to say it, but I’m increasingly convinced the Pink Sauce ingredients list is flat-out lying in some fashion. I think there’s mayo in it. The “may contain soy and eggs” disclaimer at the bottom of the list might be a way to try concealing this fact.
Where to buy Pink Sauce
如果您想冒险，可以购买一瓶神秘的调味品粉红色酱网站, but it’ll run you a whopping $20. I’m willing tothrow down money on sauces, but damn, $20 is a shit-ton of money for a bottle of anything other than alcohol. I guess the TikTok hype machine is real, though, because people are indeed buying it in droves. And not all of them are happy customers.
People are claiming that Pink Sauce is making them sick
是的。据称据称购买酱汁的人的声称没有被正确打包和运输，因此有些人甚至生病了。
Because I haven’t found any documented evidence that people are becoming ill after consuming the sauce, we’ll have to take these TikTok claims with a grain of salt and approach all the information with skepticism... something that purchasers of a mysterious, unspecified sauce might have been wise to do. But if this really is how Pink Sauce was shipped to someone’s home, then yes, it’s clear that it wasn’t sent with proper storage, packaging, or refrigeration techniques to promote food safety:
The video above shows a bottle being delivered in a bag via the U.S. Postal Service, and I’ve seen multiple videos of the Pink Sauce bottles allegedly arriving with clotted product inside and/or with exploded packaging. Considering there aren’t any preservatives in its ingredient list, there’s no way this kind of thing would be safe left at room temperature for a few days, let alone in the back of a truck during the sweltering heat waves most of the country has been experiencing lately.
另外，如果那里is我怀疑它的蛋黄酱里面，并且在不安全的温度下被遗漏了足够长的时间，我不愿意看看吃了可疑的储存粉红色酱汁后的感觉。尽管我喜欢支持小型独立企业，但在Tiktok上看到它之后，我不会购买类似的东西，除非它已被证明已被USDA批准（这本身就是一个耗时的过程）。尽管这些社交媒体的反应可能很有趣，但我想我现在只会通过这个调味品传奇来生活，然后跳过粉红色酱汁的火腿三明治。