People are weirded out by this fan dipping chicken fingers into her soda

Soda is not a dipping sauce.
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Johnny Lieu
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Everyone has an opinion on dipping sauces, whether it be ketchup, mustard, or sweet and sour. But there's one thing most of us can agree on: Soda is not a sauce.

We wish we could tell that to a bold tennis fan at the U.S. Open, who has predictably caught the attention of the internet for dipping her chicken fingers into a tall, icy glass of Coke on live television.

"That's a new one," the commentator can be heard saying, as the fan casually dips a whole piece of chicken into her soda.

While we can handle the odd but ultimately delicious combination of dipping your french fries into a soft serve cone, the mix of carbonation and processed chicken here is baffling, to say the least.

Here's what the internet had to say about it.

If you wanted a sweet kick to complement your salty chicken finger, we'd suggest honey, or the old favourite sweet and sour, but a cold glass of Coke? No thanks.

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Johnny Lieu

Mashable Australia's Web Culture Reporter.Reach out to me on Twitter at @Johnny_Lieu or via email at jlieu [at] mashable.com

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