Applesauce is a meals generally fed to infants and a preferred snack for youngsters. It’s additionally apparently a favourite of rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Throughout testimony final Thursday at Combs’ ongoing sex-trafficking trial, a former worker of Combs stated that the rapper “loves applesauce and eats it on the side or top of a lot of things,” based on Individuals journal.
“Cheeseburgers?” protection lawyer Marc Agnifilo requested.
“Cheeseburgers being one of them,” replied George Kaplan, the previous assistant.
The burger topping is prompting response from some celeb cooks, together with Andrew Zimmern, who not too long ago shared his opinions with TMZ about Diddy’s uncommon desire.
“I don’t like to yuck on anyone’s yum, but applesauce on a hamburger is a complete travesty,” Zimmern advised TMZ.
Fox Information Digital reached out to the Minnesota-based Zimmern for added remark.
California chef and American Gravy proprietor Andrew Gruel shared his personal ideas from a culinary perspective.
“Anyone who feels inclined to put applesauce on their burgers should seek professional help immediately,” Gruel advised Fox Information Digital this week.
Florida chef Jason Smith, who received the Meals Community’s “Holiday Baking Championship” in 2016, advised Fox Information Digital he wonders how that will even work.
“Cold, wet, gritty, sweet applesauce just doesn’t seem appealing,” he stated.
Combs additionally apparently enjoys ketchup on many meals.
“Ketchup was a big item that he always needed for his food,” former Combs assistant David James testified earlier final week, based on Individuals.
James claimed that after they flew to the UK, he all the time introduced Heinz ketchup together with them as a result of “the tomato sauce [there] didn’t meet Combs’ standards.”
“Were you aware he put applesauce on his cheeseburgers?” Agnifilo requested James throughout the trial, the journal reported.
“I was not aware, but I knew he liked applesauce,” James replied.
Smith stated he wonders if applesauce on burgers may turn out to be the latest meals development.
“I mean, after all, we eat applewood smoked bacon on a burger and that works great,” Smith stated.
“Food trends come and go sometimes when we don’t even realize it.”
Combs has pleaded not responsible to the fees in opposition to him, together with intercourse trafficking and racketeering.
