It’s an unhappy meal.
Danny Kim challenged chef Amy Brandwein on TikTok to make a gourmet meal out of what came in a McDonald’s Happy Meal: McNuggets, sweet and sour sauce, fries and two apple pies, according to Jam Press.
After making pasta from scratch, Brandwein turned the chicken and the insides of the apple pie into a filling for the tortellini. The video also shows how she transformed the french fries into pommes dauphine, a French dish of fried potatoes.
Reactions to the viral video, which has 1.3 million views and 117,000 likes, ranged from confusion to anger.
“My inner Italian is raging,” one person commented.
Another said: “She lost me when she mixed the apple pie with the chicken nuggets.”
Chef Brandwein was very pleased with what she made. Jam Press Vid/@dannygrubsAlthough Brandwein tasted her creation and said it was “10 out of 10,” in the video, TikTok commenters disagreed.
Some people were upset with her portion size.
“Now it looks good and all, however I’m a growing boy and that is not enough even to snack on,” one person commented.
Another person said, “Bro all that food turned into 3 pieces of pasta.”
This isn’t the first time Kim has challenged a chef to do something similar. Another popular video of his shows him daring chef Ashish Alfred to turn another popular McDonald’s item, the Filet-o-Fish, into two gourmet meals.
