

And yes, it is exactly what it sounds like: chicken cooked in NyQuil. These chicken strips were highly ranked because the white meat inside was juicy and tenderexactly what we were looking for. This 25-ounce bag of chicken strips costs less than 5 but delivers on flavor, quality and crunch. The dangerous recipe was first popularized on Reddit in 2017. Grab a bag (or two) of Great Value Chicken Strips. If you ate one of those cutlets completely cooked, it’d be as if you're actually consuming a quarter to half a bottle of NyQuil.” On January 16th, Jimmy Fallon joked about the trend during his opening monologue on The Tonight Show (shown below). TikTokers have rebranded sleepytime chicken as NyQuil chicken.

On January 15th, 2022, Yahoo! Life reported on TikTok's NyQuil Chicken videos, where a doctor suggests it is dangerous, saying, “When you cook cough medicine like NyQuil, however, you boil off the water and alcohol in it, leaving the chicken saturated with a super concentrated amount of drugs in the meat. The video gained over 4.3 million views in just over a year. In 2020 TikTokers began making the chicken, mostly in ironic videos. An image of NyQuil chicken was first posted online in April 2017 and went viral online that year. He ends the video saying "Bone Apple Tea," a phrase mimicking "bon appétit" that is often used along with imagery or videos of unappetizing food. NyQuil Chicken, also known as Sleepy Chicken or Bedtime Chicken, refers to a recipe where chicken is marinated in the cold and flu medication NyQuil, giving it a greenish or blueish color, to help treat cold or flu symptoms. On September 4th, 2020, TikToker posted a seemingly ironic video where he cooks up two chicken breasts in NyQuil, saying he likes to use "four-thirds" of the bottle and exclaiming that the steam makes you sleepy, using a hair straightener throughout to flip the meat (shown below).
