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Published 14:19 IST, September 29th 2020

Tea made with coconut milk offends people; netizens say it's 'neither chai nor latte'

A video showing the recipe of ‘chai latte’ using uncanny ingredients has hit the internet by a storm, leaving the netizens baffled. The video has 1.5m views.

Reported by: Akanksha Arora
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A video showing the recipe of ‘chai latte’ using uncanny ingredients has taken the internet by a storm, leaving the netizens baffled. Uploaded on the official Twitter handle of WebMD, the video shows a few bizarre ingredients being used to make chai and the Indian Twitter users do not seem to be happy about it. Disheartened and taken aback by the recipe, netizens have deemed this recipe as ‘abomination’.

New recipe for chai latte 

The 51 seconds short video shows a step by step preparation method of the very famous chai. It starts with boiling 2 cups of water and then adding 3 black tea bags. Further, ingredients like cardamom, cloves, star anise and cinnamon sticks are added. Towards the end of the video, 2 most bizarre ingredients are added- unsweetened coconut milk and maple syrup. The video ends with showing the nutritions per serving, according to which the tea contains 1.5g fat, 10mg cholestrol, 0g fiber and 6g protein. 

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Uploaded on September 27, the video has gathered 1.5 million views. Criticizing the recipe, netizens bombarded the comment section. Few people have also Retweeted the video with their own caption. Making a hilarious remark, one Twitter user wrote, "Please let us keep our nice things. And keep your damn maple syrup".

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Few days back, Ashish Shrivastav, a food blogger, agitated a section of the social media by introducing them to chocolate samosa pav. Ashish, who recently shared chocolate samosa pav recipe online has received the backlash from netizens. "I’m a chocoholic! But this is definitely a 'no no' for me," (sic) wrote a social media user. The video shared a few weeks ago has gone viral on the internet. Here's how the internet reacted to chocolate samosa pav.

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(Image Credits: Twitter/@WebMD)

Updated 14:19 IST, September 29th 2020

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