A certain community is going viral for marinating pineapple in Kool-Aid and Hennessy. I don't know how to respond.

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Oh yeah? More like, OH NO!

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Yes, those are pineapple spears ... marinated in Kool-Aid.

Literal Kool-Aid.

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All they're doing is buying pineapple spears, draining the syrup out and replacing it with very sugary Kool-Aid. And it's taking the streets by storm.

Dudes. Internet chefs are doing tutorials. With Hennessy. 👇

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Imagine this as a Food Network show:

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Something tells me that this isn't MAHA approved.

Pineapple isn't sweet enough on its own, so we're literally soaking it in Kool-Aid and cognac??

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I can't even. This is insane.

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If you just told someone at the office this was a thing you'd be reported to HR for racist jokes. But this is the real world somehow.

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Before you make it a race thing, the marinated-pineapple phenomenon isn't contained solely to black people. It seems to be popular in one socioeconomic strata regardless of skin color!

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I love Kool-Aid as much, or more than, your next white boy, but this has to be a step too far.

I am shook, y'all.

I'll leave you with this to make you forget about the Kool-Aid pineapple:

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