Mac and cheese with the chicken strips

Preheat oven to 425°F. Spray baking sheet with cooking spray. Place frozen strips in single layer on baking sheet. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese. Bake on middle oven rack for 16 to 18 minutes, or until heated through. Internal temperature should reach 150°F-160°F.

Mac and cheese with the chicken strips

Mac and cheese with the chicken strips

Step 2

Mac and cheese with the chicken strips

Boil

As chicken bakes, make the mac and cheese. In a medium saucepan, bring 6 cups water to a boil. Add macaroni and cook according to package directions.

Step 3

Mac and cheese with the chicken strips

Toss

Drain the pasta, return to the pot and add spinach. Toss to wilt the spinach then add the cheese mixture ingredients. Mix until well combined.

Mac and cheese with the chicken strips
TIP

TIP: For a fun twist, try adding bacon, or broccoli to the mac and cheese or dipping the chicken strips in honey or adding a few squirts of your favorite hot sauce.

The Macaroni with the Chicken Meme is taking over social media right now, but where did the hilarious sound comes from?

As you’ve been scrolling through social media this week, your feed has probably been filled with one thing, Macaroni with the Chicken Strips! The sound is everywhere right now and it’s become a viral meme.

If you haven’t seen the original video, you’re probably a little confused. Why is everyone so obsessed with this bizarre phrase? Well, it all comes from a TikTok video!

Here’s the Macaroni with the Chicken Strips Meme explained…

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Mac and cheese with the chicken strips
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Macaroni with the Chicken Strips Meme explained

In February, a TikTok user called @synxiny uploaded a video that has become known as ‘Macaroni with the Chicken Strips’ on the internet.

In the video, a child films his dinner, which happens to be macaroni cheese with chicken strips, and describes it in the most hilarious voice before letting out a joyous moan.

The most hilarious part is that the dinner is completely unexciting. The chicken strips look burnt and the macaroni is already half finished, but the child was obviously very happy with it.

TikTok users were pleased with the video too and it racked up hundreds of thousands of views. The original video has now been deleted, but luckily it was uploaded to YouTube.

Watch the hilarious video below!

Mac and cheese with the chicken strips

The sound has become a viral meme

Now, the internet has done what it does best and turned the sound into a viral meme.

Whilst some people recreate the Macaroni with the Chicken Strips video or film their own version, others are simply taking to Twitter and writing the phrase “Macaroni and the Chicken Strips ahh” to show their appreciation of it.

Either way, people are totally obsessed with the sound, and it’s certainly one of the most viral TikTok videos of 2021 so far.

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MemeStatusSubmissionType:Exploitable, Lip Dub, Sound EffectYear2021OriginTikTokTagsmacaroni, chicken strips, icecreamsandwichguy, kirby, kirby macaroni chicken strips, animation, tiktok, minecraft, uh

About

Macaroni With the Chicken Strips refers to an original sound on TikTok in which a child says, "macaroni with the chicken strips," and then blissfully moans. The sound and hashtag #macaroniwiththechickenstrips gained significant attention on TikTok in February 2021, inspiring lip dubs, skits and various remixes.

Origin

On an unknown date prior to February 6th, 2021, TikToker @synxiny uploaded a video in which he looks at a plateful of macaroni and cheese and chicken strips and says, "macaroni with the chicken strips," then emits a soft moan. The video and account were removed soon after, losing the original sound and removing it from any videos that used it. On February 8th, YouTuber[6] @pewpewdew reuploaded the video, garnering over 66,000 views in 10 days (shown below).



Although the original sound and video no longer exist on TikTok, users were quick to reupload it. For example, on February 8th, TikToker[7] @vg_n00b uploaded the sound over Call of Duty footage, perfectly synchronizing the moan with footage of a player being killed by a grenade, garnering over 290,000 views in 10 days (shown below, left). In the same span of time, the original sound was used in over 3,300 videos, many similarly structured to synchronize the moan with a specific event (most popular example shown below, right, garnering over 6.6 million views in four days).[8]


https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6927113808553037062
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6929053633568984326

Spread

On February 9th, 2021, TikToker[9] @all4asjon uploaded a lip dub video using an original upload of the audio clip, garnering over 209,000 views in nine days (shown below, left). In the video, he presents one desirable trait on one hand via on-screen-text during the words "macaroni," then another during "with the chicken strips" and puts his hands together on the moan, implying the two things are a perfect match. The sound was used in over 1,400 videos in the same span of time, many of them participating in the trend. The most popular video following the trend was uploaded by TikToker[12] @qtrosaa on February 15th (shown below, right). The video gained over 289,000 views in three days.


https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6927352218010012934
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6929305952629869830

The original sound has been uploaded by a number of other TikTokers, the videos to which are largely collected under the hashtag[13] #macaroniwiththechicken strips.

Ice Cream Sandwich Shorts Kirby Animation

On February 16th, 2021, YouTuber,[1] TikToker[2] and webcomic creator Ice Cream Sandwich Guy uploaded an animated video in which a hand-drawn version of the video game character Kirby, sitting in front of a plate of chicken strips and a bowl of macaroni lip dubs, "macaroni with the chicken strips," softly moans, lifts from his seat and vanishes into thin air (shown below). The video gained over 482,000 views on YouTube and 2.3 million on TikTok in two days. He also posted the video to Twitter[3] that day, garnering over 44,000 likes and 10,000 retweets in the same span of time.


https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6929980554922200325

As the video spread it inspired TikTokers to use the sound over various video clips similar to previous uploads of the sound (often gameplay from Minecraft) where the moan in Ice Cream Sandwich Guy's video is timed to play as a character flies away or vanishes.

For example, on February 16th, TikToker[4] @npc_man1 uploaded Minecraft footage set to the sound where the character is launched into the sky in time with the moan, garnering over 5.8 million views in two days (shown below).


https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/6930009593447795974

On that day, Redditor /u/maxiscoolerthanyou shared the video to /r/YouTubeHaiku,[5] garnering over 1,200 upvotes in two days. On February 17th, TikToker[10] @silvos7 uploaded Minecraft footage set to the sound, garnering over 560,000 views in a day (shown below, left). On February 18th, TikToker[11] @thisisandrewtiktok posted synchronized Pirates of the Caribbean footage using the sound, garnering over 700,000 views in under a day (shown below, right).

What does macaroni with the chicken strips mean?

For those who haven't heard it, essentially it's a kid saying “macaroni with the chicken strips” before letting out what can only be described as a joyous moan.

Who says macaroni with the chicken strips?

In February, a TikTok user called @synxiny uploaded a video that has become known as 'Macaroni with the Chicken Strips' on the internet.