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Hollywood roommates stumble into TikTok fame thanks to a dead uncle’s old recipes
The vodka sauce recipe calls for an entire cup of vodka. The Cajun recipes are not Cajun. The sauces and salads seem to be anything but. And there is no chicken. Only “chicky.” Bachelor Bake. Zucheni Pineapple Bread. Salmon Candy. Sparklin Tater. Friggoli. Fish Sauce, which is not what you think it is.
This is the culinary chaos of a man named Greg, who documented his favorite recipes on pieces of paper which have now become immortalized on the internet after his death last summer. Hollywood resident David Zarco recreates the sometimes nonsensical, always misspelled recipes on his TikTok, which has garnered a quarter million followers and millions of views in a matter of months. The format of each video is simple and unchanging. Zarco, 36, spins a wheel to randomly pick from a selection of recipes Greg, his roommate’s uncle, stuffed into several Ziploc bags. Zarco then cooks the recipe to the best of his ability and serves a plate to his roommate and a small serving to Greg himself, whose ashes are in an urn on the dining room table.
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