Hey, I'm Liz, I'm a huge foodie, and I love trying out new recipes — BUT I was totally shocked when I discovered this wild food combo on TikTok...Vienna sausages and Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
Listen. When I was a kid, I actually loved Vienna sausages, and I also loved Cheetos. But together?
Now, I first found out about the combo when I stumbled upon @yayayayummy's viral video — which currently has over 1.7 million views — and I had to see what the hype was all about.
In the video, he says he'd eat the snack in college and describes it as "SO good," "meaty," "crunchy," and "spicy." And his steps are pretty simple: Crush the Hot Cheetos, drain the Vienna sausage, add the sausage to the bag, shake it up, and that's it!
@yayayayummy is known for trying ~unique~ food combos on his page, so of course, the TikTok got thousands of reactions in the comments. Some people were immediately skeptical:
And surprisingly, others were pretty open to the idea:
Then, in a viral TikTok video with over 4.8 million views, @ramenkingivan tried the recipe for himself, enjoyed it, and even made a fancy ramen version of it — with Vienna sausage meatballs.
So, I knew what I had to do.
I went to my local grocery store and grabbed my supplies: a can of Vienna sausages and a bag of Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
If you're a bit skeptical, I understand. I was too. You might like Hot Cheetos, but then there's the canned Vienna sausage — a mixture of chicken, beef, and pork sitting in some chicken broth. Here it is, opened and drained in all its glory:
Anyway, instead of crushing the Cheetos in the bag and dipping the sausages in, I crushed them in a Ziploc bag (I literally smashed it a few times with a huge can of chicken soup).
Then, I put the crushed Cheetos in a bowl and tossed the Vienna sausages around to get them coated. This part was kinda fun, TBH.
Here's the final result. Yeah, they don't look *that* appetizing.
Well, I gave it a taste, and I'm sorry to disappoint, but it was pretty anticlimactic. They were OK. Like, literally. Just OK.
If it helps, my mom tried it too. She said, "It's nice." But she also wasn't overly impressed!
I wanted to see if the flavors would blend together better by adding more Hot Cheetos, so I tried eating another one with literally an entire Cheeto. Then, I tried mashing together a sausage and some extra Cheeto crumbs to make a strange concoction. It didn't really make a difference or an improvement!
FINAL THOUGHTS:
