A seemingly ordinary cooking show tasting challenge left viewers reeling after it served up one of the most unsettling reveals imaginable.
What began as a cheerful ‘guess the secret ingredient’-type scenario quickly spiralled into disbelief, gagging, and a frantic plea for a bucket, as a composed chef asked judges to identify a mystery component hidden inside a sausage.
The chef on the show - the clip of which is available on YouTube - confidently presented three possible options, calmly listing them as ‘fish liver’, ‘human flesh’, or ‘shark’.
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The host and contestant judges, visibly thrown, attempted to brush it off as part of the show’s theatrics, with one squinting at the other while trying to decide whether the man in front of them was joking or simply deranged.
As the guessing continued, the tension in the room shifted from playful confusion to genuine dread. One judge muttered: “God help you it better be shark.”
Meanwhile, another admitted the whole thing was becoming ‘too obvious’, insisting it couldn’t possibly be human flesh. Cameras captured every awkward glance as they braced for the reveal, none of them preparing for what the chef would say next.
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It was only after more than two minutes of mounting panic that the chef announced: “I’m afraid you’re both wrong, it is human flesh.”
The room erupted instantly. One judge staggered away, insisting they were going to throw up, while crew members scrambled to bring over a bucket.
The chef, still deadpan, doubled down, calling it a ‘wonderful renewable protein’ and claiming the dish was ‘very popular in my restaurant’.
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One of the judges even asked: “Would, like, someone die, and then you make it?”, before the chef responded, again in a deadpan smiling manner: “How else would we make it? I mean, many small villages…”
Although the clip in particular is 10 years old, it’s been resurfacing on social media platforms to major shock, with new viewers finding out the final big twist that came afterwards.
The entire segment was, in fact, a set-up for a skit on the hidden-camera series Fameless, a 2015-2017 TruTV prank show, starring actor David Spade, that specialized in tricking unsuspecting participants into increasingly bizarre situations.
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The host soon stepped in to stop filming, announcing they were moving to shoot ‘another show called Fameless… it’s David Spade’s new prank show’, prompting the one judge who hadn’t already walked out to collapse into laughter, tears, and pure relief as the truth finally landed.
She summed up the chaos in the same way most people would, exhaling: “I’m just so happy I didn’t eat human flesh.”
Still, not everyone rewatching the clip a decade later feels the same.
On the Instagram video where this resurfaced, reactions were mixed, partly because people didn't watch right through to the end when the reveal came.
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One fully believed the prank was genuine, saying: “Where did he get human flesh for this? And if he got it so easily, how often does he cook with it? Beyond disturbing how they try to normalize cannibalism.”
Another looked at it from a general meat-eater’s perspective, asking: “Animal flesh is ok but human flesh is not??????.”
There did seem to be at least one user who got the joke, though, adding: “Jesus, how can people honestly believe that this was real?”
Topics: Social Media, YouTube
Ben Williams