I Tried The Pink Sauce So You Don’t Have To
Spoiler: I’m not dead yet!
You’ve probably heard of the viral Pink Sauce by now.
Last summer, the condiment took the internet by storm. The sauce’s creator, who goes by Chef Pii, blew up on TikTok and quickly became the subject of one of the most iconic online scandals of 2022.
The initial allure of Pink Sauce was owed to the mystery surrounding its ingredients. According to Tech Crunch, Chef Pii didn’t reveal how the sauce got its colorful hue until the sauce was about to go up for sale on her website. Some users speculated it was just food coloring, but in reality, the secret ingredient was dragonfruit.
Yes, dragonfruit. The same fruit Starbucks puts in their Dragon Drink to give the beverage its signature purply-pink shade. Only Pink Sauce is a… condiment.
I’m not afraid of a fruity sauce. Lemon aioli? Love it. Mango soy sauce? Already in my poke bowl. But Pink Sauce paired dragonfruit with a ranch base — and that freaked a lot of people out, understandably.
Then, people started noticing some sketchy stuff on the Pink Sauce’s nutrition label. First of all, the serving size was wrong. The bottle claimed that there were 444 servings of 1 tbsp. of sauce in the bottle, which mathematically made no sense.
