Just when you thought 2020 couldn’t get any weirder…
In the latest bizarre development for this very strange year, McDonald’s revealed a new sandwich in China that is made of Spam topped with Oreo cookie crumbs, an attention-grabbing combination that is terrifying the internet.
“For the love of God Why?” Twitter user Jonathan Foerster wrote Monday.
“I feel like this has to be some sort of weapon the DOD is paying #McDonalds to distribute in #China,” tweeted David Zeiler.
The controversial “burger” is made of two slices of Spam’s canned pork, a generous serving of crushed Oreo cookies and a creamy sauce that is said to be mayonnaise, according to multiple reports and a series of photos McDonald’s shared on the Chinese social media platform Weibo.
The company plans to sell 400,000 of those sandwiches as part of a limited-edition promotion running on Mondays only.
Despite the overwhelmingly shocked reactions on social media, several customers have shared positive reviews online. One of them called the sandwich “unexpectedly delicious” in a review shared by McDonald’s on Weibo.
Another posted a TikTok video of himself trying the Spam sandwich for the first time.
“It’s actually not bad,” he said. “Oreo and mayonnaise is like Oreo and milk so that kind of works in a strange way. And then, the spam just… is just very spammy.”
Images of the sandwich went viral over the weekend after video game industry analyst Daniel Ahmad tweeted about it on Friday.
“(Look, I saw this so you have to see it too. Sorry, that’s how it works),” he quipped.
“To respond to some of the questions… Yes, people in China hate this too,” he said. “Some of y’all saying ‘Why would China do this’ seem to have forgotten that McDonald’s is an American company. If anything this is a declaration of war on China by the US.”